* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

* 1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician ( d. 1675 )

* 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologian, historian, astronomer, and writer ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – 1719 John Flamsteed

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.

* 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

* 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

They determined to reinvestigate the motion of γ Draconis ; the telescope, constructed by George Graham ( 1675 – 1751 ), a celebrated instrument-maker, was affixed to a vertical chimney stack, in such manner as to permit a small oscillation of the eyepiece, the amount of which ( i. e. the deviation from the vertical ) was regulated and measured by the introduction of a screw and a plumb line.

* 1613 – Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter ( b. 1632 )

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

* 1675 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician ( d. 1750 )

* 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer ( d. 1726 )

* 1675 – Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter ( b. 1613 )

* John Gordon ( 1673 – 1675 )

* Lady Anne Gordon ( 1675 – 1709 ), married Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton

* 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy ( b. 1634 )

* 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler ( d. 1675 )

* 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler ( d. 1675 )

* 1749 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician ( b. 1675 )

* 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and writer ( d. 1755 )

* 1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials ( d. 1719 )

Some population figures: 1647: 54, 1649: 26, 1662: 61, 1665: 30, 1675: 150, 1690: 40, 1738: 70-84, ( Bering expeditions ) 1775: 529, 1809: 921 1821: 1500-1600, ( port moved ) 1842: 800, 1855: 207, 1865: 100.

Some time around 1675, Wood's son-in-law, Peter Jones, who then commanded the fort and traded with the Indians, opened a trading post nearby, known as Peter's Point.

Some of his sermons, which John Evelyn found dull, were printed, including Character of the Last Daies, preached before the king, 1675, and a sermon preached before the House of Peers on 22 December 1680.

Some recent C-14 dates from the Tsoungiza site north of Mycenae indicate LHI there was dated to between 1675 / 1650 and 1600 / 1550 BC, which is earlier than the assigned pottery dates by about 100 years.

* 1675 – Ole Rømer uses the orbital mechanics of Jupiter's moons to estimate that the speed of light is about 227, 000 km / s

The Cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's a " Tour through the whole island of Great Britain ", where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, "... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

The Mohegan village, now known as Fort Shantok, was protected on the inland side by palisades first built in about 1636, at the time of the Pequot War, rebuilt during wars with the Narragansett people circa 1653 – 1657, and rebuilt again at the time of King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ).

Sarah was about fifteen when Churchill returned from the Continent in 1675, and he appears to have been almost immediately captivated by her charms and considerable good looks.

Sarah became close to the young Princess Anne in about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( who met Malebranche in Paris in about 1675 and corresponded with him thereafter ) also rejected the vision in God, and his theory of pre-established harmony was designed as a new alternative to occasionalism as well as to the more traditional theory of efficient causal interaction.

In about 1675, ( when he would have been 24 ), he was ordained as a priest.

In December 1675 he was appointed, with Sir William Temple and Sir Leoline Jenkyns, ambassador extraordinary on the part of England at the congress of Nijmegen then about to assemble, but bad health affected him.

This letter was published anonymously in November 1675, and quickly became a bestseller, in no small part because it was one of the first books ever to inform the public about the debates that occurred within the House of Lords.

During the debate on the case of Shirley v. Fagg, a jurisdictional dispute about whether the House of Lords could hear appeals from lower courts when the case involved members of the House of Commons, Shaftesbury gave a celebrated speech on 20 October 1675.

They were ambushed, with about 50 colonists being killed, in the Battle of Bloody Brook ( near Hadley, Massachusetts ) on September 18, 1675.

As contact became more permanent, after about 1675, conflicts arose.

* Jacob was born about 1618 and died in Plymouth in December 1675.

* Sir William Forester ( 1655 – 1718 ), his son, inherited Dothill from his half-brother, Richard Steventon ( died 1659 ), in about 1675, and beceme a Member of Parliament in 1678.

The viceroy of Kashmir, Iftikhar Khan ( 1671 – 1675 ) carried out the policy vigorously and set about converting non-Muslims by force.

In his last period, from about 1675 onwards, he shows a tendency towards overcrowded compositions, and affects a darker tonality, which may partly be due to the use of thin paint on a dark ground.

Allaert moved in 1645 to Haarlem, where he studied under Pieter de Molijn, and finally settled about 1657 at Amsterdam, where he died in 1675.

The anthem was written as a hymn in Italy by Francis de Geronimo ( later canonized ) about 1675.

It seems to have been founded about the year 1675 as a resort for members of the political party hostile to the court.

In about 1675, Jane married Robert Bolling of Prince George County, Virginia.

It seems to have been founded about the year 1675 as a resort for members of the political party hostile to the court.

Further information about the contents of the Kebra Nagast was supplied by Baltazar Téllez ( 1595 – 1675 ), the author of the Historia General de Etiopía Alta ( Coimbra, 1660 ).

Developed after about 1675, when the Delaware River Valley area ( Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware ) was settled by immigrants from Sweden, Finland, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and several other northern European nations.