1676 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1676?
- January 29, 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
- June 2, 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
- August 12, 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip’s War.
- September 19, 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
- December 4, 1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
Who Were Born In The Year 1676?
- March 17, 1676 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
- March 27, 1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nationalist (d. 1735)
- April 23, 1676 – King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
- May 28, 1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
- June 21, 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- July 1, 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- July 3, 1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
- July 14, 1676 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (d. 1763)
- August 26, 1676 – Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
- September 13, 1676 – Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
- September 18, 1676 – Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
- October 8, 1676 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
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