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Calendar overview 1676
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| 1676 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1124/25 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1668/69 (September 10-11) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1081/82 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2219/20 (southern Buddhism); 2218/19 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 72nd (73rd) cycle
Year of the fire dragon丙辰 ( at the beginning of the year wooden rabbit 乙卯) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1038/39 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4009/10 (October 2/3) |
| Iranian calendar | 1054/55 |
| Islamic calendar | 1086/87 (March 15/16) |
| Jewish calendar | 5436/37 (September 7/8) |
| Coptic calendar | 1392/93 (September 10-11) |
| Malayalam calendar | 851/852 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1986/87 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1987/88 (turn of the year October) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1732/33 (April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Dutch War and Northern War
- January 8: In the sea battle at Stromboli , the fleet of the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the Mediterranean Sea off the north coast of Sicily meets a fleet of the Kingdom of France . The battle ends in a draw.
- March 21: The Danish Chancellor Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld is arrested on charges of bribery and high treason . Secret correspondence with the warring Sweden and the great power France had got into the hands of his opponents at court.
- April 22nd: In the Dutch War , a Dutch-Spanish fleet fights against a French fleet in the naval battle near Augusta . In it, the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter is so badly injured that he dies seven days later.
- June 2: During the Dutch War , the Spanish-Dutch fleet, which was anchored for repairs, was fought by the French fleet that had unexpectedly arrived in the sea battle off Palermo . After the victory, France gains naval supremacy in the Mediterranean.
- September 17th: The siege of Philippsburg ends with the handover of the fortress Philippsburg to the imperial troops by the French.
- December 4: The Battle of Lund in the Skåne War kills over 8,500. It is considered to be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on Scandinavian soil. The losses are around 50 percent on both sides. The Swedes will ultimately emerge victorious from the battle.
Central and Eastern Europe
- FEBRUARY 8: Russia receives after the death of his father Alexis I with Fyodor III. a new tsar.
- June 1st: Johann Hugo von Orsbeck becomes Archbishop of Trier and thereby also elector . He follows the late Karl Kaspar von der Leyen .
- October 17: In the Treaty of Żurawno , an armistice is reached between Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire , ending the Ottoman-Polish War that has been going on since 1672 .
- October 19: Kara Mustafa Pascha succeeds Köprülü Fâzıl Ahmed Pascha as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
- The First Russo-Turkish War for Ukraine begins.
America
- August 12th: After the death of their leader, the Indian uprising known as King Philip's War collapses.
- Starting May: Nathaniel Bacon leads Bacon's Rebellion in the Virginia colony . Bacon himself dies of dysentery on October 26th, whereupon the rebellion is brutally suppressed by Governor Berkeley.
economy
- November 30th: The Feuerkasse is founded in Hamburg , the oldest existing insurance company in the world.
science and technology
- March 21: South of Livorno the debris raining a burst at the earth entry Meteors in the Tyrrhenian Sea .
- November 21: The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents his thesis to the Paris Académie des Sciences that the speed of light is a finite quantity. It is based on observations of the eclipses of the four moons of Jupiter .
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe bacteria in water and in human saliva.
Culture
- April 19: World premiere of the opera La Donna ancora è fedele by Bernardo Pasquini in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome
society
- The Amsterdam businessman Hermann Löher publishes the text Hochnötige Unterthanige Wemütige Klage der Pious Invalid , a moral indictment of the persecution of witches .
religion
- July 22nd: Pope Clement X dies. On August 2, 1676 , the conclave began to elect his successor. 44 cardinals are present at the opening. Their number increases to 63 by the end.
- September 21: Benedetto Odescalchi is elected Pope and takes the name Innocent XI. at. As his first official activity, he decreed the Papal States rigorous austerity measures to rebalance the highly indebted household. The morally strict new Pope, who rejects simony and nepotism as well as the fine arts, appoints Alderano Cibo as his cardinal state secretary .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 2: Jean-Jacques-Baptiste Anet , French violinist and composer († 1755)
- January 19: John Weldon , English composer and organist († 1736)
- February 3: Ingenuin Lechleitner , Austrian sculptor († 1731)
- February 7th: Mechitar of Sebasteia , Armenian Apostolic, later Armenian Catholic clergyman and founder of the order († 1749)
- March 20: Johann Heinrich Schramm , German Reformed theologian († 1753)
- March 22nd: Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling , German Protestant theologian and critical historian († 1728)
- March 27: Franz II. Rákóczi , Hungarian national hero and leader of the Rákóczi uprising (1703–1711) († 1735)
- April 14: Philipp Ludwig Dreyzigermark , German Protestant clergyman († 1750)
- April 14: Ernst Christian Hesse , German Kapellmeister, composer and viol player († 1762)
- April 18: Lukas von Breda , Swedish painter († 1752)
- April 27: Frederick I , King of Sweden († 1751)
- May 23: Johann Bernhard Bach the Elder Ä. , German composer († 1749)
- June 5: Marco Ricci , Venetian painter († 1730)
- June 12: Johann Moritz Gustav von Manderscheid-Blankenheim , Bishop in the Diocese of Wiener Neustadt and in the Archdiocese of Prague († 1763)
- June 21: Józef Fontana , Polish architect († 1739)
- July 1: Johann Gebhard , Bavarian painter († 1756)
- July 3: Leopold I , Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian military leader and military reformer († 1747)
- July 4: José de Cañizares , Spanish playwright and librettist († 1750)
- July 14th: Caspar Abel , German historian and poet († 1763)
- July 29th: Adam Horatio Casparini , German organ builder († 1745)
- August 7th: Friedrich II. , Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg († 1732)
- August 15: Johann Deodat Blumentrost , Russian medic († 1756)
- August 26: Robert Walpole , British politician and head of government († 1745)
- September 13: Elisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans , Duchess of Lorraine and Princess of Commercy († 1744)
- September 18: Eberhard Ludwig , Duke of Württemberg († 1733)
- September 19: Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn-Buchheim , Prince-Bishop of Speyer and Constance († 1743)
- September 29: Pietro Maria Pieri , Italian cardinal († 1743)
- October 13: Michael Apafi II , Prince of Transylvania († 1713)
- October 18: Michael Heinrich Reinhard , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian († 1732)
- November 10: Friedrich Gottlieb Struve , German lawyer and university professor († 1752)
- December 10: Johann George Schreiber , German engraver, cartographer and publisher († 1750)
- December 19: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault , French composer and organist († 1749)
- December 27: Johann Georg Joch , German Protestant theologian († 1731)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Hans Balthasar Burckhardt , Swiss entrepreneur and politician († 1740) r
Died
First half of the year
- January 14th: Francesco Cavalli , Italian composer and organist (* 1602)
- January 16: Georg Arnold , Austrian composer and organist (* 1621)
- February 8: Alexei I , Tsar of Russia (* 1629)
- February 14: Abraham Bosse , French engraver and eraser (* around 1604)
- February 20: Georg Ludwig Agricola , German musician (* 1643)
- March 13: Adelheid of Savoy , wife of the Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria (* 1636)
- March 22nd: Cäcilie Zeitlose Wicht , German pastor's wife, victim of the witch hunt in Idstein (* 1626)
- March 31: George Konrad Crusius , Dutch legal scholar (* 1644)
- April 8: Claudia Felizitas of Austria-Tyrol , Roman-German Empress (* 1653)
- April 20: John Clarke , English doctor, Baptist preacher and politician (* 1609)
- April 29th: Michiel de Ruyter , Dutch admiral (* 1607)
- May 3: Ernst Friedrich Schröter , German legal scholar (* 1621)
- June 1: Lorentz Creutz the Elder , Swedish Admiral General (* 1615)
- June 1: Karl Kaspar von der Leyen , Archbishop and Elector of Trier (* 1618)
- June 6th: Paul Gerhardt , German poet of hymns (* 1607)
- June 24: Carl Gustaf Wrangel , Swedish military leader and statesman (* 1613)
Second half of the year
- July 8: Franz I. Rákóczi , Prince of Transylvania (* 1645)
- July 19: George III. , paraged Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (* 1632)
- July 22nd: Emilio Altieri, under the name Clemens X. Pope (* 1590)
- July 25: François Hédelin , French writer and theater theorist (* 1604)
- July 28: Edward Reynolds , Bishop of Norwich (* 1599)
- August 12: Metacomet , Indian chief of the Pokanoket (* around 1639)
- August 14: Niccolò Sagredo , 105th Doge of Venice (* 1606)
- August 17th: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , German writer and author of the novel Der adventurliche Simplicissimus (* around 1625)
- August 29: Luise Charlotte of Brandenburg , Duchess of Courland (* 1617)
- September 4th: John Ogilby , Scottish cartographer, writer and translator (* 1600)
- September 13: Lamoral Claudius von Thurn und Taxis , Postmaster General of the Imperial Post and Postmaster General in the Spanish Netherlands (* 1621)
- September 16: Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán , Spanish statesman, diplomat and viceroy of Naples (* 1595 or 1596)
- September 16: Shabbtai Zvi , religious scholar and self-proclaimed Messiah (* 1626)
- September 19: Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve , French officer and founder of Montreal (* 1612)
- September 30th: Elisabeth Hoffmann , German pastor's wife and landlady, victim of the witch hunt in Idstein (* around 1607)
- October 10: Sebastian Knüpfer , German composer (* 1633)
- October 13: Juan de Arellano , Spanish painter (* 1614)
- October 15: Simon de Vos , Flemish painter (* 1603)
- October 25: Justus Georg Schottelius , German language scholar (* 1612)
- October 26th: Nathaniel Bacon , English tobacco grower and revolutionary in Virginia (* 1647)
- October 27: Johan de Witt , Dutch politician (* 1618)
- November 1: Gisbert Voetius , Reformed theologian (* 1589)
- November 2: Adam Michna , Czech composer (* around 1600)
- November 3: Köprülü Fâzıl Ahmed Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (* 1635)
- December 19: Adolf von Nassau-Schaumburg , founder of the short-lived Nassau-Schaumburg line (* 1629)
- December 25: Matthew Hale , English lawyer and statesman (* 1609)
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