In the year 1674, the Westminster Treaty is signed between England and the Dutch Republic (Feb 19), the Dutch Republic cedes its colony of New Netherland to England, including the capital New Orange which is returned to its English name of New York (Nov 10), Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan, which will gradually grow into the city of Chicago (Dec 4) – and all these fine people were born:

1674-xxxx Juho Yrjänänpoika Hyövälti** (b Seppälä) father of Katarina Juhontytär Hyövälti - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1754/79-80)

1674-0112 Alexis Simon Belle* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1734/60)
1674-0113 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon* - Dijon, France (1762/88)
1674-0124 Thomas Tanner* bishop/antiquary - Market Lavington, Wiltshire, England (1735/61)

1674-0330 Jethro Tull (B) pioneering agriculturist/helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century - Basildon, Berkshire, England (1741/66)

1674-0602 Matthias Buchinger* German artist born without hands or feet/ calligrapher/micrographer - Ansbach, Holy Roman Empire (1740/65)
1674-0620 Nicholas Rowe* dramatist/poet/writer – Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England (1718/44)

1674-0717 Isaac Watts* hymn writer/theologian/logician – Southampton, England (1748/74)

1674-0809 František Maxmilián Kaňka* Czech architect/builder - Prague (1766/91)

1674-1029 Eleonore von Dönhoff* wife of field marshall Hans Albrecht von Barfus - Friedrichstein, East Prussia (1726/51)

1674-1225 Thomas Halyburton* theologian - Duplin, Scotland (1712/37)

Updated 30.3.2023-2
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