1674

Centuries:	16th century · 17th century · 18th century
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Years:	1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677

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1674 (MDCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York
May 21 - John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.
June 6 - Shivaji is crowned King of the Maratha lands.
August 11 - The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeated the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under William III of Orange at Seneffe.
November 10 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of 19 February, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
December 4 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago).

January 15 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
January 24 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
July 12 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
July 17 - Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)
August 2 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
August 9 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
December 25 - Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)