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

His medical reputation was based on his Tuta ac efficax luis venereae saepe absque mercurio ac semper absque salivatione mercuriali curando methodus ( 1684 ) which was translated into French, Dutch and German.

The first novel to expose the complex play that the genre allows was Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, which appeared in three volumes in 1684, 1685, and 1687.

He executed the laws enforcing religious conformity with severity, and filled the parish churches, but resisted the excessive measures of tyranny prescribed by the English government ; and in consequence of an intrigue of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Perth, who gained the duchess of Portsmouth with a present of £ 27, 000, he was dismissed in 1684.

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

Luxembourg was invaded by Louis XIV of France ( husband of Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV ) in 1684, an action that caused alarm among France's neighbours and resulted in the formation of the League of Augsburg in 1686.

From May 1684, the King's illegitimate son, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, lived in the Netherlands, where he was fêted by William and Mary.

Baptised around 1684 as Dona Béatrice, Kimpa Vita was raised Catholic and being very pious she became a nun seeing visions of St. Anthony of Padua ordering her to restore the kingdom of Kongo to its former glory.

The College did, however, habitually use a version with three pallets and this was allowed at the Herald's Visitation of Cambridgeshire in 1684.

One of the most notable editions of her prophecies was published in 1684.

* 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.

The phenomenon of zodiacal light was first investigated by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1683 and first explained by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1684.

Year 1684 ( MDCLXXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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 ).

In 1678, the Franco-Dutch War ended, and the Dutch returned their attention to Tortola, although it was not until 1684 that the Dutch ambassador, Arnout van Citters, formally requested the return of Tortola.

Many sources claim that the 10th century Egyptian astronomer Ibn Yunus used a pendulum for time measurement, but this was an error that originated in 1684 with the British historian Edward Bernard.

In February 1676, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in July, he moved into the Observatory where he lived until 1684, when he was finally appointed priest to the parish of Burstow, Surrey.

The earliest recognisable description of Acanthocephala – a worm with a proboscis armed with hooks – was made by Italian author Francesco Redi ( 1684 ).

* Heinrich Ignaz Biber ( 1644 – 1704 ) was Kapellmeister in Salzburg from 1684.

It was created in 1684 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius ( Jan Heweliusz ), who originally named it Scutum Sobiescianum ( Shield of Sobieski ) to commemorate the victory of the Polish forces led by King John III Sobieski ( Jan III Sobieski ) in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

The name became universally adopted later in 1684 when the first English translation of Alexandre Exquemelin's book The Buccaneers of America was published.

* Lewis Atterbury was appointed Rector of the village in 1684.

On its completion, in 1684, Verro was appointed ‘ Chief and first painter ’.

in 1684, a year after he was ordained by the bishop of London and was appointed Lecturer at the rectory of Widdington, Essex.

The fleet returned in April 1684, and a few months after, upon a vacancy occurring in the see of Bath and Wells, Ken ( now Dr Ken ) was appointed bishop.

The Society's early meetings included experiments, demonstrated first by Hooke and then by Denis Papin, who was appointed in 1684.

As a result, rumors began circulating in Boston in late 1684 that Dudley might be appointed governor, with Randolph as his deputy.

Following the loss of his family, Eaton married the widow Anne ( Graves ) Cotton ( 1620 – 1684 ), the daughter of Captain Thomas Graves ( 1584 – 1635 ) of Virginia and Massachusetts, and served for several years as an assistant to the Anglican curate at Accomac, Virginia before returning to England, where he was appointed the Vicar of Bishop's Castle, Salop, in 1661 and Rector of Bideford, Devon, in 1669.

In 1684, it was re-elevated to a Presidency and Elihu Yale was appointed as President.

On 5 April 1684 he was appointed Vice-Admiral by the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

In the latter year, he was appointed Master of the Horse to Catherine of Braganza, whose Treasurer he later became in 1684.

Christopher Wren was appointed the architect in 1672 and the church was consecrated on 13 July 1684 by Henry Compton, the Bishop of London.

In 1684 he was appointed Sheriff of Tarbet.

Educated at the University of Glasgow, he was appointed a Scottish Privy Counsellor in 1684, and was lieutenant-colonel of Dundee's regiment of horse.

His great-grandfather, a soldier in the French royal army named Charles Sanson ( 1658-1695 ) of Abbeville, was appointed as Executioner of Paris in 1684.

He was appointed Joint Surveyor General of the King's buildings and works in Ireland in 1684.

Antitrinitar, 1684 ), Bayle and Robert Wallace ( Antitrinitarian Biography, 1850 ).

Robert de La Salle departed from La Rochelle, France, on 24 July 1684, with the aim of setting up a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi, eventually establishing Fort Saint Louis in Texas.

Modern design of semaphores was first foreseen by the English scientist Robert Hooke, who first gave a vivid and comprehensive outline of visual telegraphy to the Royal Society in a submission dated 1684 in which he outlined many practical details.

* Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland: 1683 – 1684

In 1684, he married Margaret, only daughter of Sir Robert Sawyer of Highclere Castle and Margaret Suckeley, by whom he had seven sons and five daughters:

** Robert Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby ( 1684 – 1704 )

* Naturalis Historia Scotiae, a 1684 work by Robert Sibbald

Robert Leighton ( 1611 – 25 June 1684 ) was a Scottish prelate and scholar, best known as a church minister, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1653 to 1662.

* Robert Leighton ( 1611 – 1684 ), Scottish prelate

While Robert Campbell was still unable to satisfy his creditors, his own tenants offered him half their cattle to pay off his debts but he refused, and sold almost all of the estate to the Earl of Tullibardine in 1684.

In 1684, French nobleman Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle founded a colony on the Texas Gulf Coast called Fort Saint Louis.

* Robert Leighton ( bishop ) ( 1611 – 1684 ), Scottish preacher, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, & academic

With Justin's connivance, Donough married Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, in 1684, then principal secretary of state in England: the couple were sixteen and thirteen respectively.

Joe Miller ( Joseph or Josias ) ( 1684 – August 15, 1738 ) was an English actor, who first appeared in the cast of Sir Robert Howard's Committee at Drury Lane in 1709 as Teague.

Robert Hooke invented a reflecting quadrant in 1684 and had written about the concept as early as 1666.