1675 in England

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Events from the year 1675 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

• 4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.^[1][2]
• 25 March - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey.
• 13 April - Parliament refuses to vote funds for King Charles; suspended after sitting for just nine weeks.^[1]
• 21 June - Reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral in London under Christopher Wren begins to replace that destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.^[3]
• 10 August - King Charles II places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in London.^[3]
• 20 September - The Great Fire of Northampton occurs in the county town.^[4]

Undated

• The Green Ribbon Club founded; the earliest political club, based in Fleet Street.^[1]
• King Charles issues a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee Houses" due to the political activity which occurred in the newly popular establishments.^[5]
• Bethlem Hospital, London, moves to new buildings in Moorfields, designed by Robert Hooke.
• Briggflatts Meeting House built near Sedbergh.

Publications

• William Wycherley's satirical play The Country Wife.^[1]

Births

• 1 April - George Shelvocke, privateer (died 1742)
• 29 May - Humphry Ditton, mathematician (died 1715)
• 2 September - William Somervile, poet (died 1742)
• 11 October - Samuel Clarke, philosopher (died 1729)
• 24 October - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, soldier and politician (died 1749)
• Edmund Curll, bookseller and publisher (died 1757)

Deaths

• 28 July - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer (born 1605)
• 28 November - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (born c. 1608)
• 6 December - John Lightfoot, churchman and scholar (born 1602)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Willmoth, Frances (2004). "Flamsteed, John (1646–1719)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-04.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
4. "The Fire of Northampton in September 20th 1675". Fire Northampton. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
5. "The rise and fall of English coffee houses". Retrieved 2007-12-28.

See also