1675 Calendar
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1675 Historical Event(s)
January 5, 1675
– Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
March 4, 1675
– John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
May 4, 1675
– King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
August 10, 1675
– The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
August 11, 1675
– Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
October 29, 1675
– Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
November 2, 1675
– King Philip’s War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
November 11, 1675
– Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
Who Were Born On 1675?
January 16, 1675
– Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
February 28, 1675
– Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
May 29, 1675
– Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
June 1, 1675
– Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
July 5, 1675
– Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials (d. after 1719)
July 12, 1675
– Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1742)
July 14, 1675
– Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
September 2, 1675
– William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
October 21, 1675
– Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
October 24, 1675
– Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)