1676

1676 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1676; MDCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2429
Armenian calendar	1125; ԹՎ ՌՃԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6426
Balinese saka calendar	1597–1598
Bengali calendar	1083
Berber calendar	2626
English Regnal year	27 Cha. 2 – 28 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2220
Burmese calendar	1038
Byzantine calendar	7184–7185
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit); 4372 or 4312; — to —; 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon); 4373 or 4313
Coptic calendar	1392–1393
Discordian calendar	2842
Ethiopian calendar	1668–1669
Hebrew calendar	5436–5437
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1732–1733
- Shaka Samvat	1597–1598
- Kali Yuga	4776–4777
Holocene calendar	11676
Igbo calendar	676–677
Iranian calendar	1054–1055
Islamic calendar	1086–1087
Japanese calendar	Enpō 4; (延宝４年)
Javanese calendar	1598–1599
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4009
Minguo calendar	236 before ROC ; 民前236年
Nanakshahi calendar	208
Thai solar calendar	2218–2219
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年; (female Wood-Rabbit); 1802 or 1421 or 649; — to —; 阳火龙年; (male Fire-Dragon); 1803 or 1422 or 650

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century ; 17th century ; 18th century ;
Decades:	1650s ; 1660s ; 1670s ; 1680s ; 1690s ;
Years:	1673 ; 1674 ; 1675 ; 1676 ; 1677 ; 1678 ; 1679 ;

Last updated July 31, 2019

August 17: Battle of Halmstad Slaghalm1676.jpg — August 17: Battle of Halmstad

1676 ( MDCLXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar , the 1676th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 676th year of the 2nd millennium , the 76th year of the 17th century , and the 7th year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1676, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value:

A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

A leap year starting on Wednesday is any year with 366 days that begins on Wednesday, 1 January, and ends on Thursday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are ED, such as the years 1908, 1936, 1964, 1992, 2020, 2048, 2076, and 2116 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2004 and 2032 in the obsolete Julian calendar. Any leap year that starts on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday has two Friday the 13ths. This leap year contains two Friday the 13ths in March and November. Common years starting on Thursday share this characteristic, but also have another in February.

Events

January–June

January – Six months into King Philip's War, Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Algonquian tribe known as the Wampanoag, travels westward to the Mohawk nation, seeking an alliance with the Mohawks against the English colonists of New England; his efforts in creating such an alliance are a failure.
January 29 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
February 10 – After the Nipmuc tribe attacks Lancaster, Massachusetts, colonist Mary Rowlandson is taken captive, and lives with the Indians until May.
February 14 – Metacomet and his Wampanoags attack Northampton, Massachusetts; meanwhile, the Massachusetts Council debates whether a wall should be erected around Boston.
February 23 – While the Massachusetts Council debates how to handle the Christian Indians they had exiled to Deer Island on October 13, 1675, a coalition of Indians led by Metacomet attacks colonial settlements just 16 km (9.9 mi) outside of Boston.
March 29 – Providence, Rhode Island is attacked and destroyed by Native Americans.
May 2 – 3 – Mary Rowlandson is released from captivity, and returns to Boston.
May 19 – Peskeomskut Massacre – Battle of Turner's Falls: Captain William Turner leads a raid at first light, on an encampment consisting mainly of women and children. An estimated 300-400 lives are taken in less than half an hour, first from gunshot directly into the sleeping tents, then by sword and by drowning as the victims try to flee. This incident happens on the west bank of the Connecticut River, just above the falls known as Turner's Falls in Gill, Massachusetts.
May 26 – A fire destroys the town hall and 624 houses in Southwark, England.^[1]
May 31 – The Massachusetts Council finally decides to move the Christian Indians from Deer Island to Cambridge, Massachusetts (approximate date).
June – Bacon's Rebellion begins in the Virginia Colony. On July 30, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers issue the Declaration of the People of Virginia.
June 1 – Battle of Öland: A combined fleet of the Dutch Republic and Denmark–Norway decisively defeats the Swedish Navy, which loses its flagship Kronan .
June 12 – The Indian coalition attacks Hadley, Massachusetts, but are repelled by Connecticut troops.
June 19 – Massachusetts issues a declaration of amnesty, to any Indian who surrenders.

January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

King Philip's War was an armed conflict in 1675–1678 between Indian inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their Indian allies. The war is named for Metacomet, the Wampanoag chief who adopted the name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Mayflower Pilgrims. The war continued in the most northern reaches of New England until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay in April 1678.

Metacom, also known as Metacomet and by his adopted English name King Philip, was chief to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta died shortly after the death of their father, Massasoit. Wamsutta's widow Weetamoo, sunksqua of the Pocasset, was Metacom's ally and friend for the rest of her life. Metacom married Weetamoo's younger sister Wootonekanuske. No one knows how many children they had or what happened to them. Wootonekanuske and one of their sons were sold to slavery in the West Indies following the defeat of the Native Americans in what became known as King Philip's War.

July–December

July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the Thirteen Colonies as slaves.
July 4 – Captain Benjamin Church and his soldiers begin sweeping Plymouth Colony, for any remaining Wampanoag tribesmen.
July 11 – The Wampanoags attack Taunton, Massachusetts, but are repelled by colonists.
July 17 – In France, Madame de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning her father and brothers. The case also scares King Louis XIV into starting a series of investigations about possible poisonings and witchcraft (later called the Affair of the Poisons ).
July 27 – Nearly 200 Nipmuc tribesmen surrender to the English colonists in Boston.
July 30 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issue a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
August 2 – Captain Benjamin Church captures Metacomet's wife and son.
August 12 – King Philip (Metacomet), chief of the Wampanoags that had waged a war throughout southern New England that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.
August 17 – Sweden gains a decisive victory over Denmark–Norway in the Battle of Halmstad (fought at Fyllebro).
August 28 – Irish Donation of 1676 is shipped from Dublin to relieve Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
September 19
- The Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681) begins, with Russo-Ukrainian troops forcing pro-Ottoman Hetman Ivan Samoylovych to surrender Chyhyryn.
- Bacon's Rebellion: Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon.
The Russo–Turkish War of 1676–1681, a war between the Tsardom of Russia and Ottoman Empire, caused by Turkish expansionism in the second half of the 17th century.
The Ottoman Empire, historically known to its inhabitants and the Eastern world as Rome (Rûm), and historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I. Although initially the dynasty was of Turkic origin, it was Persianised to some extent in terms of language, culture, and literature. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.
Hetman is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders.
September 21 – Pope Innocent XI succeeds Pope Clement X, as the 240th pope.
October 13 – Trunajaya defeats the Mataram Sultanate in the Battle of Gegodog.
October 17 – The Treaty of Żurawno is signed, between the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
November 16 – A prison is founded on Nantucket Island, in the English colony of Massachusetts.
November 27 – A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, is accidentally set by a careless and sleepy apprentice, who drops a lighted candle, or leaves it too near some combustible substance; this is the largest fire known at this time in the district. The Rev. Increase Mather’s church, dwelling and a portion of his personal library are destroyed.^[2]
December 4 – Scanian War: Sweden defeats the forces of Denmark in the Battle of Lund.
December 7 – Ole Rømer makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 182 days remain until the end of the year.

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. As of the 2010 Census, it has the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. It is part of New England, although portions of it are often grouped with New York and New Jersey as the tri-state area. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for "long tidal river".

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest state in area, the seventh least populous, and the second most densely populated. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west, Massachusetts to the north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound. It also shares a small maritime border with New York. Providence is the state capital and most populous city in Rhode Island.

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Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia decrees that Muslims must live separately from Christians throughout his realm.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms.
An Åbo Lantdag (assembly) meets in Turku, Finland.
The French East India Company founds its principal Indian base at Pondicherry, on the Coromandel Coast.

Yohannes I, throne name A'ilaf Sagad, was Emperor (1667–1682) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the fourth son of Fasilides.

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country in the northeastern part of Africa, known as the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somaliland and Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west and Sudan to the northwest. With over 102 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent with a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi). Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa, which lies a few miles west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the Nubian and Somali tectonic plates.

A microorganism, or microbe, is a microscopic organism, which may exist in its single-celled form or in a colony of cells.

Births

March 17 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
March 27 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian rebel against the Habsburgs (d. 1735)
April 23 – King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
May 26 – Maria Clara Eimmart, German astronomer, engraver and designer (d. 1707)
May 28 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
June 17 – Louise de Maisonblanche, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (d. 1718)
June 21 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
July 3 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
July 14 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, poet (d. 1763)
August 26 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
September 13 – Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, duchess and regent of Lorraine (d. 1744)
September 18 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
November 8 – Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchess of Maine, daughter in law of Louis XIV (d.1753)
date unknown– Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (d. 1721)

March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 289 days remain until the end of the year.

Thomas Boston Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher

Thomas Boston was a Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher.

1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1732nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 732nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1732, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Deaths

January 7 – Marco Faustini, Italian opera manager (b. 1606)
January 13 – Isaac Commelin, Dutch historian (b. 1598)
January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
January 16 – Georg Arnold, Austrian musician (b. 1621)
January 29 – Tsar Alexis of Russia (b. 1629)
February 3 – François Chauveau, French painter (b. 1613)
February 14 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (b. c. 1604)
February 20 – Hugh Forth, English politician (b. 1610)
March 2 – Juan de Almoguera, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1673–1676) and Bishop of Arequipa (1659–1673) (b. 1605)
March 21 – Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
March 22 – Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (b. 1590)
March 23 – Paul Würtz, Swedish general (b. 1612)
March 27 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
April 5 – John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1606)
April 8 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1653)
April 20 – John Clarke, English physician (b. 1609)
April 29 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
May 5 – Sir Richard Lloyd, English politician (b. 1606)
May 7 – Henri Valois, French historian (b. 1603)
May 25 – Johann Rahn, Swiss mathematician (b. 1622)
May 26 – Thomas Rouse, English politician (b. 1608)
June 1 – Karl Kaspar von der Leyen, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1618)
June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
June 13 – Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, wife of Ferdinand Maria (b. 1636)
June 16 – Nathaniel Dickinson, American settler (b. 1601)
June 29 – Hendrik van der Borcht II, German painter (b. 1614)
July – Jesse Wharton colonial governor of Maryland
July 5 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
July 8 – Francis I Rákóczi, Hungarian prince of Transylvania (b. 1645)
July 12 – Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet composer and (by marriage) Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1613)
July 22 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
July 17 – Madame de Brinvilliers, French murderer (b. 1630)
August 11 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (b. 1621)
August 14 – Nicolò Sagredo, 105th Doge of Venice (b. 1606)
August 28 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Duchess of Courland by marriage (1645–1676) (b. 1617)
August 31 – Lars Stigzelius, Swedish Lutheran archbishop (b. 1598)
September 4 – John Ogilby, Scottish-born impresario and cartographer active in Dublin and London (b. 1600)
September 9 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (b. 1612)
September 10 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
September 11 – Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1616)
September 17 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
September 28 – Anna Maria Antigó, Spanish Catholic nun (b. 1602)
October 6 – Claudia Rusca, Italian composer, singer, and organist (b. 1593)
October 7 – Richard Neville, English soldier and MP (b. 1615)
October 10 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (b. 1633)
October 13 – Juan de Arellano, Spanish artist (b. 1614)
October 15 – Simon de Vos, Flemish painter (b. 1603)
October 26 – Nathaniel Bacon, Virginian colonist and instigator of Bacon's Rebellion (b. circa 1640s)
October 28 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
November 9 – Allart Pieter van Jongestall, Dutch jurist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1612)
November 12 – Shang Kexi, Chinese general (b. 1604)
December 11 – Roland Fréart de Chambray, French writer (b. 1606)
December 12 – William Morice, English politician (b. 1602)
December 18 – Edward Benlowes, English poet (b. 1603)
December 19 – Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg and Count of Nassau-Schaumburg (1653–1676) (b. 1629)
December 25
- Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English soldier, politician, writer (b. 1592)

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References

↑ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p43
↑ Hubbard, William (1848). A General History of New England, from the discovery to MDCLXXX. Boston: Little, Brown.

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[1] "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p43

[2] Hubbard, William (1848). A General History of New England, from the discovery to MDCLXXX. Boston: Little, Brown.

Gregorian calendar	1676 MDCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2429
Armenian calendar	1125 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6426
Balinese saka calendar	1597–1598
Bengali calendar	1083
Berber calendar	2626
English Regnal year	27 Cha. 2 – 28 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2220
Burmese calendar	1038
Byzantine calendar	7184–7185
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4372 or 4312 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4373 or 4313
Coptic calendar	1392–1393
Discordian calendar	2842
Ethiopian calendar	1668–1669
Hebrew calendar	5436–5437
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1732–1733
- Shaka Samvat	1597–1598
- Kali Yuga	4776–4777
Holocene calendar	11676
Igbo calendar	676–677
Iranian calendar	1054–1055
Islamic calendar	1086–1087
Japanese calendar	Enpō 4 (延宝４年)
Javanese calendar	1598–1599
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4009
Minguo calendar	236 before ROC 民前236年
Nanakshahi calendar	208
Thai solar calendar	2218–2219
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1802 or 1421 or 649 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1803 or 1422 or 650

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