The Prime Meridian passing through it, the Royal Greenwich Observatory gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time, the precursor to UTC
In the year 1675, Native American Christian John Sassamon from the Massachusett tribe is killed (Jan 29), the killers convicted (Jun 8), and this helps spark the conflict known as King Philip’s (Metacomet) War, breaking out as the Wampanoags attack Swansea in Massachusetts (Jun 24), Brandenburg defeats the Swedes in the Battle of Fehrbellin (Jun 28), construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London begins (Aug 10), the Narragansetts sign a treaty with the English in Boston (Sep 18), United colonial forces attack the Narragansetts at the Great Swamp Massacre in New England (Dec 19), the American Indian Wars go on - and all these fine people were born:
1675-xxxx Erik Cajanus* teacher/ editor/bishop - Sotkamo, Sweden-Finland (1737/c.62) aby
1675-xxxx Valpuri Sipintytär Västi** (b Rasku) mother of Heikki Juhonpoika Västi - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1730/50-59) aby
1675-0114 Marie Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard* the governess of Maria Theresa of Austria – Vienna, Austria (1754/79)
1675-0127 Erik Benzelius the younger* priest/librarian/Archbishop of Uppsala - Uppsala, Sweden (1743/68)
1675-0214 Johann Cyriak Hackhofer* painter - Wilten, Tirol, Austria (1731/56)
1675-0228 Guillaume Delisle* cartographer - Paris, France (1726/50)
1675-0328 Johann Wilhelm* Duke of Saxe-Jena - Jena, Holy Roman Empire (1690/15)
1675-0403 Guillermo Mesquida* painter - Palma de Mallorca, Spain (1747/72)
1675-0509 Anders Örbom* soldier/POW in Siberia - Örebro, Sweden (1740/65)
1675-0529 Humphry Ditton* mathematician - Salisbury, England (1715/40)
1675-0601 Francesco Scipione* nobleman/ writer/art critic - Verona, Republic of Venice (1755/79)
1675-0623 Louis de Silvestre* painter - Sceaux, France (1760/84)
1675-0712 Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco* Italian violinist/cellist/composer - Verona, Republic of Venice (1742/67)
1675-0714 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval* army officer/a.k.a. Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa - Bonneval Castle, Kingdom of France (1747/71)
1675-0817 Johann Adolph Wedel* physician - Jena, Holy Roman Empire (1747/71)
1675-0902 William Somerville* poet - Staffordshire, England (1742/66)
1675-0903 Paul Dudley* jurist/ Attorney-General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay - Roxbury, Massachusetts (1751/75)
1675-1011 Samuel Clarke* philosopher/clergyman - Norwich, England (1729/53)
1675-1021 Higashiyama* 東山天皇 the 113th emperor of Japan - Japan (1710/34)
1675-1115 Caspar König* German organ builder - Ingolstadt, Holy Roman Empire (1765/89)
1675-1129 Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli* Italian sculptor/architect - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1744/68)
1675-1228 Heinrich Klausing* German mathematician/astronomer/ polymath - Herford, Holy Roman Empire (1745/69)
Updated 17.4.2023-2
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