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.

In 1675, when King Philip's War broke out, some of the town's Indians, ( especially in the southern part of the town ) sided with the Mohegans and the English while others sided with the Indians led by Philip, rallying to arms on what is now Curtis Island in present Holland, Massachusetts and Brimfield, Massachusetts.

One of his great-grandfathers, Pierre de Lesseps ( Bayonne, 2 January 1690 – Bayonne, 20 August 1759 ), son of Bertrand Lesseps ( 1649 – 1708 ) and wife ( m. 18 April 1675 ) Louise Fisson ( 1654 – 1690 ), was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II of Spain, exiled to Bayonne after the accession of Philip V, and married on 7 January 1715 his great-grandmother Catherine Fourcade ( 2 June 1690 – 22 August 1760 ), by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom died in childhood: Dominique de Lesseps ( 1715 – 1794 ), Pierre de Lesseps ( 1716 –?

On October 16, 1675 a substantial part of the town was destroyed in King Philip's War, and surviving settlers sought refuge in Springfield.

Beyond the town but within the ancient Manor are Carnfield Hall ( 15th century, now a private residence and events venue ), Riddings House ( now a nursing home ), Swanwick Hall ( c. 1690, now a school ), Swanwick Old Hall ( 1675, private residence ), The Hayes ( c. 1860, now a conference centre ), Newlands House ( 19th century, now flats ) and the Jessop Monument ( 1854 ) at Ironville.

After the death of the last Silesian Piast duke George IV William of Legnica in 1675, Ohlau ceased to be a residence town.

In 1523 the town passed to the Duchy of Legnica and remained there until the dukes of Liegnica-Brzeg-Wołów died out in 1675.

In 1675 Duke Albert V of Saxe-Coburg upon his accession chose the town as his residence and from 1677 onwards had Saalfeld Castle erected on the site of the destroyed Benedictine abbey, which in 1680 fell to his younger brother John Ernest IV.

A resident who lost his house to the flames in both 1704 and 1706 was Lorenz Koller ( born 1675 ), who was the Marktrichter ( roughly, mayor ) of the town and the maternal grandfather of Joseph Haydn ( see below ).

After serving this purpose it housed first the grammar school ( founded 1675 ), then the Quekett museum, named after John Thomas Quekett ( 1815 – 61 ) the histologist, a native of the town, whose father was master of the school.

In 1672 and again in 1675 the town was captured by the Ottoman Turks.

In 1675 the town was again sacked and pillaged by the forces of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1675 the Turkish army destroyed the town of Trembowla, in the Podole Voivodship, and laid siege to the castle for an entire week.

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Abakansky ostrog () was built at this location in 1675, also known as Abakansk.

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.

The first Antarctic land discovered was the island of South Georgia, visited by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675.

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

But because of high demand for trade with the West ( mainly slave trade ), and the fact that still many colonies existed, it was decided to establish the Second Chartered West India Company ( also called New West India Company ) in 1675.

In 1675 Grenada was captured by Dutch Privateers, but luckily for the French, a French man-of-war arrived unexpectedly, and the island was recaptured.

From 1633 until 1675, he was assistant to the governor of the Plymouth Colony, frequently serving as acting governor and also on many juries, including one witch trial.

Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, finished in 1675, was the major source from which pantheism spread.

Pope Benedict XIV ( 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758 ), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.

His brother, Francis Lovelace ( 1621 – 1675 ), was the second governor of the New York colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England.

The Island of South Georgia is said to have been first sighted in 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant, and was named Roche Island on a number of early maps.

Her earliest American ancestors were the immigrants John Anthony ( 1607 – 1675 ), who was from Hempstead, Essex, and his wife, Susanna Potter ( c. 1623-1674 ), who was from London, Middlesex.

Year 1675 ( MDCLXXV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

In the end King Philip ’ s War ( 1675 – 1676 ) was one of the bitterest events in his life as his efforts ended with the burning of Providence in March 1676, including his own house.

On 4 March 1675 he was appointed by royal warrant " The King's Astronomical Observator " — the first English Astronomer Royal, with an allowance of £ 100 a year.

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (; 1632 – December 1675 ) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life.

The observatory was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August.

These coffee-house clubs soon became hotbeds of political scandal-mongering and intriguing, and in 1675 King Charles II issued a proclamation which ran: “ His Majesty hath thought fit and necessary that coffee houses be ( for the future ) put down and suppressed ,” because “ in such houses divers false, malitious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the Defamation of his Majesty ’ s Government and to the Disturbance of Peace and Quiet of the Realm .” So unpopular was this proclamation that it was almost instantly found necessary to withdraw it, and by Anne ’ s reign the coffee-house club was a feature of England ’ s social life.

One treaty which was concluded was the Strasbourg Agreement of 1675.

Category: Populated places established in 1675

Monmouth County was established in 1675.

Category: Military units and formations established in 1675

By 1675 they had established a few small towns in the interior between Boston and the Connecticut River settlements.

His grandfather, Richard Tilghman ( 1626 – 1675 ) had been a surgeon in the British navy and established the family plantation at the Hermitage.

In 1675, the local Nabeshima family who ruled Arita established an official kiln to make top-quality enamelware porcelain for the upper classes in Japan, which came to be called Nabeshima ware.

Category: States and territories established in 1675

In 1698, their grandson Samuel Bayard ( 1675 – 1721 ) moved to Maryland and established a plantation known as Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, Maryland.

Phips established a shipyard on the Sheepscot River at Merrymeeting Bay in Maine in 1675.

By 1675, Gonja had established a paramount chief called Yagbongwura, to control the kingdom.

The " fugitives " established diplomatic connections with Poland in 1674 and France in 1675.

About 1675 the area was explored by Charles Bayly and Fort Albany established in 1679.