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What Happened In Year 1675?

• January 5, 1675 – Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
• March 4, 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
• May 4, 1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• August 10, 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
• August 11, 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
• October 29, 1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
• November 2, 1675 – King Philip’s War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
• November 11, 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

Who Were Born In The Year 1675?

• January 16, 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
• February 21, 1675 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
• February 28, 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
• March 31, 1675 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
• May 29, 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
• June 1, 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
• July 5, 1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials (d. after 1719)
• July 12, 1675 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1742)
• July 14, 1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
• September 2, 1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
• September 3, 1675 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
• October 11, 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
• October 21, 1675 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
• October 24, 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)

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