The Republic of Venice and its main territories over the course of its existence. Photo credit Ariel196
In the year 1684, the severe months-long frost in Britain, which even froze the River Thames, ends (Mar), the Republic of Venice declares war on the Ottoman Empire (Apr 25), René-Robert Cavelier sails again from France in order to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico (Jul 24), Edmond Halley goes to Cambridge to discuss planetary motion with Isaac Newton (Aug), the British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton, the Swedification of Scania is accelerated by getting rid of the Danish-speaking teachers in the schools there - and all these fine people were born:
1684-0114 Johann Matthias Hase* mathematician/ astronomer/ cartographer - Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (1742/58)
1684-0114 Jean-Baptiste van Loo* portait painter - Aix-en-Provence, Kingdom of France (1745/61)
1684-0118 Johann David Köhler* German historian - Colditz, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1755/71)
1684-0224 Matthias Braun* sculptor - Sautens, Austria (1738/53)
1684-0331 Francesco Durante* Italian composer - Frattamaggiore, Kingdom od Naples (1755/71)
1684-0410 Joseph Paris Duverney* banker/financier - Moirans, France (1770/86)
1684-0415 Catherine I of Russia* second wife of Peter the Great/Empress of Russia (1725-1727) - Viski, Latvia, Russian Empire (1727/43)
1684-0530 Georg Engelhard Schröder* painter - Stockholm, Sweden (1750/65)
1684-0622 Francesco Manfredini* Italian violinist/composer - Pistoia (1762/78)
1684-0703 Jean-Baptiste Baudry (B) gunsmith/goldsmith/one of the first inhabitants of Detroit - Trois-Rivières, New France (1755/71)
1684-0917 Elizabeth Hanson* (b Meader) captive of Native Americans/ writing about her experiences part of the new genre - Dover, New Hampshire (1737/c.53)
1684-1008 Karl Aigen* Austrian landscape painter - Olomouc, Moravia (1762/78)
1684-1010 Antoine Watteau (B) painter - Valenciennes, France (1721/36)
1684-1101 Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn* naval officer/diplomat - Moscow, Russian Empire (1764/79)
1684-1203 Ture Gabriel Bielke* count/officer/statesman - Stockholm, Sweden (1763/78)
1684-1203 Ludvig Holberg* writer/historian/playwright - Bergen, Denmark-Norway (1754/69)
1684-1209 Abraham Vater* anatomist/mathematician - Wittemberg, Holy Roman Empire (1751/66)
Updated 22.8.2021
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