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List of events
Events from the year
1684 in
England .
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
4 January
19 February –
George Duckett , Member of Parliament (died 1732)
21 March –
Oley Douglas , Member of Parliament (died 1719)
22 March –
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath , noble (died 1764)
2 April –
Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort , noble (died 1714)
6 June –
Nathaniel Lardner , theologian (died 1768)
24 August –
Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet , politician (died 1746)
17 September –
Henry Cantrell , Anglican clergyman, writer (died 1773)
2 October –
Thomas Seaton , religious writer (died 1741)
16 October –
Peter Walkden , Presbyterian minister and diarist (died 1769)
11 November –
Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset , noble (died 1750)
12 November –
Edward Vernon , admiral (died 1757)
16 November –
Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst , politician (died 1775)
15 December –
James Jurin , scientist and physician (died 1750)
16 December –
Samuel Clark of St Albans , theologian (died 1750)
31 December –
William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston , landowner and Member of Parliament (died 1756)
Deaths
13 January –
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk , noble (born 1628)
5 February –
Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (born 1617)
11 February –
Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet , politician (born 1613)
24 March –
Elizabeth Ridgeway , poisoner (burned at the stake)
28 March (bur.) –
John Lambert , Parliamentarian general (born 1619)
1 April –
Roger Williams , theologian and colonist (born 1603)
5 April – Lord
William Brouncker , mathematician (born 1602)
30 April –
James Holloway , merchant and conspirator (hanged)
4 May –
John Nevison , highwayman (born 1639; hanged)
10 May –
Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford , noble (born 1615)
20 June –
Sir Thomas Armstrong , politician (born c. 1633; hanged)
6 July –
Peter Gunning , royalist churchman (born 1614)
28 July –
Charlotte Paston, Countess of Yarmouth , noblewoman, illegitimate daughter of Charles II (born c. 1650)
8 August –
George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born 1622)
October –
Dud Dudley , ironmaster (born 1600?)
12 October –
William Croone , physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (born 1633)
23 November –
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire , noble (born 1617)
10 December –
Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet , politician (born 1615)
22 December –
Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley , politician (born 1608)
References