* 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion ( d. 1766 )

* 1674 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ( d. 1723 )

* 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter ( d. 1674 )

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* 1620 – John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography ( d. 1674 )

* 1614 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1674 )

A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.

* 1707 – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer ( b. 1674 )

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

* 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian ( d. 1674 )

George Gordon, Lord Haddo ( 1674 – aft. 1694 ), d. v. p. s. p.

Watts ( 1674 – 1748 ), whose father was an Elder of a dissenter congregation, complained at age 16, that when allowed only psalms to sing, the faithful could not even sing about their Lord, Christ Jesus.

Image: Shunkeizu. jpg | Hanging scroll 1672, Kanō Tanyū, ( 1602 – 1674 ), Japanese

* 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire, is crowned.

* 1674 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop ( d. 1735 )

* 1766 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect ( b. 1674 )

* John Walker ( clerical historian ) ( 1674 – 1747 ), English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian

* 1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter ( d. 1674 )

* 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English poet

* 1674 – John Milton, English poet ( b. 1608 )

* 1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

* June 17 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer ( b. 1674 )

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ( January 13, 1674 – June 17, 1762 ) was a French poet and tragedian.

* Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ( 1674 – 1762 ), French poet and tragedian

He was the second son of Prosper Ferdinand, Count Fürstenberg, killed at the Landau on 21 November 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and his wife Sophia, Countess Königsegg-Rothenfels ( 1674 – 1727 ).

* Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ( 1674 – 1762 )

( Gaspar Sanz ' Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española of 1674 constitutes the majority of the surviving solo corpus for the era.

The Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter inflicted a few strategic defeats on the Anglo-French naval alliance and forced England to retire from the war in 1674.

** Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist ( d. 1674 )

* May 26 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter ( d. 1674 )

* February 13 – Jean de Labadie, French mystic ( d. 1674 )

Finally, they were the great-grandsons of Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 7 November 1649 – Pau, 14 July 1689 ) and wife ( m. Pau, 18 June 1674 ) Marie de la Barrère-Bertandot ; he was in turn the son of Pierre Bernadotte and wife Margalide Barraquer and paternal grandson of Joandou du Poey, born in 1590, and wife Germaine de Bernadotte.

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June 7: First Battle of Schooneveld ( by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1674 in art | 1674 ).

* August 9 – Dutch forces under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture New York from English ( regained by English in following year, 1674 ).

In Jean de La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ), a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.

The first recipe in French for flavoured ices appears in 1674, in Nicholas Lemery ’ s Recueil de curiositéz rares et nouvelles de plus admirables effets de la nature.

* 1674 – two volumes of tracts on the Saltiness of the Sea, Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air, Cold, Celestial Magnets, Animadversions on Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo

* 2 August 1674 – 9 June 1701 His Royal Highness the Duke of Chartres ( Monseigneur le duc de Chartres )

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Franciscan Brother Manuel de la Cruz explored the county in 1674.

The Battle of Seneffe was fought on 11 August 1674 and resulted in a draw. The armies were under the command of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( France ) and the Dutch-German-Spanish army under William III of Orange.

Isaac de Benserade ( 1674 )