Nicolò Amati ( December 3, 1596 – April 12, 1684 ) was the son of Girolamo Amati.

* Alexandra Mavrokordatou ( 1605 – 1684 ), Greek intellectual

* 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

* 1629 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter ( d. 1684 )

* Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein ( 1611 – 1684 ), the second prince of Liechtenstein

* 1684 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor ( d. 1738 )

The War of the Reunions broke out ( 1683 – 1684 ), and again Spain, with its ally the Holy Roman Empire, was easily defeated.

* 1630 – John Rogers, American educator ( d. 1684 )

* 1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar ( b. 1684 )

* 1684 – Françoise Charlotte d ' Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles ( d. 1739 )

* 1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest ( b. 1620 )

* 1684 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( d. 1764 )

* 1684 – Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1757 )

* 1684 – Antoine Watteau, French painter ( d. 1721 )

* 1684 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1757 )

Henry Corbin, Sr. ( 1629 – 1676 ) and Alice ( Eltonhead ) Burnham ( c. 1627 – 1684 ).

An uprising by soldiers and planters in 1684 during the governorship of John Blackmore ( 1678 – 1689 ) led to the death of three mutineers in an attack on Fort James and the later execution of four others.

During the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai became one of the most important sea ports in the Yangtze Delta region as a result of two important central government policy changes: First, Emperor Kangxi ( 1662 – 1723 ) in 1684 reversed the previous Ming Dynasty prohibition on ocean going vessels – a ban that had been in force since 1525.

* 1684 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer ( d. 1748 )

* 1683 – 1684, " The Great Frost ", when the Thames, hosting one of many River Thames frost fairs, was frozen all the way up to the London Bridge and remained frozen for about two months.

* July 24 – George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary ( b. 1684 )

In 1684 England revoked the Massachusetts charter, sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686, and in 1689 passed a broad Toleration act.

The following year, 1615, King James I granted a charter to a new company, the Somers Isles Company, formed by the same shareholders, which ran the colony until it was dissolved in 1684 ( The Virginia Company itself was dissolved after its charter was revoked in 1624 ).

It was incorporated by charter of Edward IV ( 1468 ), confirmed in 1554, 1586, 1629 and 1684.

Ongoing political difficulties with England after the English Restoration led to the revocation of the colonial charter in 1684 ; King James II established the Dominion of New England in 1686 to bring all of the New England colonies under firmer crown control.

In 1624, the company lost its charter, and Virginia became a royal colony ( although its spin-off, the Somers Isles Company existed until 1684 ).

The English authorities soon tried to exploit them and their resources for the authorities ' own gain — beginning with the revocation of the charter of Massachusetts Bay in 1684 ( enforced 1686 ).

His efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, although the animosity he began between the crown and the Massachusetts government eventually led to the repeal of its charter in 1684.

This led to a dispute about jurisdiction between the two companies, which was resolved in 1684 when the Rotherhithe " charter " was canceled.

Bellingham notably refused a direct order from the king to appear in England, an action that may have contributed to the eventual revocation of the colonial charter in 1684.

He also believed the colonial government was not within the power of the English crown and government, a politically hardline position that contributed to the eventual revocation of the colonial charter in 1684.

His tenure as governor was chiefly notable because of King Philip's War, and the rising threats to the colonial charter that culminated in its revocation in 1684.

The charter was annulled in 1684, and the Lords of Trade began planning to combine the New England colonies into a single province called the Dominion of New England.

In 1683 legal proceedings began to vacate the Massachusetts charter ; it was formally annulled in June 1684.

The recordership of Leicester, to which he was elected in 1680, he lost on the surrender of the charter of the borough in 1684, but was reinstated in office on its restoration in 1688.

Following legal processes begun in 1683, the charter was formally annulled on October 23, 1684.

The colony's attempts at moderation were in vain — the charter was formally annulled on June 18, 1684.

In 1684, the royal charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was rescinded by a writ of scire facias for the Colony's interference with the royal prerogative in founding Harvard College and other matters.

An adept politician, he served in virtually every government through the period of turmoil in Massachusetts that encompassed the revocation of its first charter in 1684 and the introduction of its second charter in 1692, including the unpopular rule of Sir Edmund Andros in the late 1680s.

In the 1684 election, Joseph Dudley, who had been labelled as an enemy of the colony ( along with Stoughton, Bulkley, and others ) for his moderate position on colonial charter issues, failed to win reelection to the council.

The corporate existence of Harvard College had been thrown into turmoil by the recission of the colonial charter in 1684, upon which the Harvard charter depended.

The following year, 1615, King James granted a charter to a new company, the Somers Isles Company, formed by the same shareholders, which ran the colony until it was dissolved in 1684 ( The Virginia Company itself was dissolved after its charter was revoked in 1624 ).