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unusual facts about Free election, 1674



All Saints, Antigua and Barbuda

Betty's Hope was built in 1674 by Sir Christopher Codrington, the namesake of Codrington, and was named for his daughter, Elizabeth Codrington.

António Vieira

At the request of the pope he drew up a report of two hundred pages on the Inquisition in Portugal, with the result that after a judicial inquiry Pope Innocent XI suspended it in Portugal for seven years (1674–81).

Benedetto Gennari II

In September 1674, he moved to London where he became court painter to King Charles II of England and his successor James II.

Betty's Hope

It flourished as a successful agricultural industrial enterprise (because the workforce, being forcibly imported African slaves, were unpaid), the first large-scale sugar plantation to operate in Antigua, starting with Codrington family's ownership in 1674, which lasted till 1944.

Bunbury baronets

It was created on 29 June 1681 for Thomas Bunbury, Sheriff of Cheshire from 1673 to 1674 and the member of an ancient Cheshire family.

Château de Maintenon

1674: Madame de Maintenon (1635–1719) bought the marquisate from the previous;

Elkanah Settle

Dryden was obviously aimed at, and he co-operated with John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell in an abusive pamphlet entitled "Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco" (1674), to which Settle replied in "Some Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco revised" (1674).

Fort Pentagouet

During the Franco-Dutch War (1674), Pentagouet and other Acadian ports were captured by the Dutch captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz who arrived from New Amsterdam, renaming Acadia, New Holland.

Frances Seymour

Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1599–1674), wife of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset

Francesco Provenzale

La Stellidaura vendicante 1674 - Stellidaura: Jennifer Rivera (mezzo-soprano), Armillo: Hagen Matzeit (countertenor), Armidoro: Bogdan Mihai (tenor), Orismondo: Carlo Allemano (tenor), Giampetro: Enzo Capuano (bass).

Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán

He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, (Heidelberg, Germany, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda, Ireland, 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France.

Franco-Dutch War

On 19 June 1674, the French suffered another defeat at Maureillas.

Free election, 1674

Despite protests of Lithuanians, Bishop of Krakow Andrzej Trzebicki initiated the process, by singing the hymn Veni Sancte Spiritus.

Free election, 1704

Despite Russian support, Saxon army lost several battles, and soon afterwards, forces of the Swedish Empire controlled most of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

George Forester

He was the only son of Brooke Forester of Dothill in Wellington and Elizabeth daughter and heir of George Weld of Willey Park.

Giuseppe Arighini

He built the castle theatre (Schloßtheater) (1670–1674) in Celle Castle in the town of Celle in the German state of Lower Saxony for Duke George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Grosse Point Light

The site of the Grosse Point Lighthouse is the purported site where Father Jacques Marquette landed in 1674 during his trip down the west side of Lake Michigan to visit various Illinois Native American tribes.

Hearth tax

During the 1980s Arkell’s discussion of the eight hearth tax records for Kineton hundred in Warwickshire enabled detailed comparisons to be made between the data for 1662-1666 and 1669-1674, and to test the extent of the coverage of each record.

Hendrick Hamel

In 1666, after thirteen years (during the reign of Hyeonjong of Joseon, 1659–1674) of what then had become imprisonment, eight men including Hamel were able to escape.

Henry Coventry

The Honourable Henry Coventry (1619–1686) was an English politician, who was Secretary of State for the Northern Department between 1672 and 1674 and the Southern Department between 1674 and 1680.

In 1671 he was again sent on an embassy to Sweden, and in 1672 he was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department, transferring to the Southern Department in 1674.

Hermann of Baden-Baden

After they lost battles at Mulhouse on 29 December 1674 and at Türkheim on 5 January 1675, they had to retreat across the Rhine.

Higham Gobion

It contains a monument to Dr. Edmund Castell, who died in 1674 and was a Professor of Arabic at Cambridge.

Jammers Minde

Jammers Minde (literally A Memory of Lament), translated into English as Memoirs of Leonora Christina, is an autobiography completed in 1674 by Leonora Christina, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk.

Jan Drapentier

These, which are of no very great merit, include portraits of William Hooper (1674), Sir James Dyer (1675), Richard Baxter, the Earl of Athlone, Viscount Dundee, Henry Sacheverell, the seven bishops, and others.

Johan Jacob Döbelius

Johan Jacob Döbelius, professor of medicine (1674 in Rostock, Germany – 1743 in Lund, Sweden)

John Herman Merivale

He was Robert Bland's principal collaborator in his ‘Collections from the Greek Anthology and from the Pastoral, Elegiac, and Dramatic Poets of Greece,’ London, 1813, In 1814 he published ‘Orlando in Roncesvalles,’ London, a poem in ottava rima, founded on the ‘Morgante Maggiore’ of Luigi Pulci, and in 1820 a free translation in the same metre of the first and third cantos of Niccolò Fortiguerra's Ricciardetto.

Kazimierz Czartoryski

Prince Kazimierz Czartoryski (4 March 1674 – 31 August 1741) was a Polish nobleman, Duke of Klewań and Żuków.

Lydia Longley

Lydia Longley (Sainte-Madeleine) (1674 – 20 July 1758), is known to many as "The First American Nun" after Helen A. McCarthy Sawyer of Groton, Massachusetts published her biographical novel written for Roman Catholic children, The First American Nun, in 1958.

Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie

In 1674, the Italian diplomat Lorenzo Magalotti estimated that De la Gardie had at least 50 on-going projects in Sweden and its provinces, excluding the 37 churches he was constructing or repairing at the time.

Manor of Berry Pomeroy

He married Margaret Wale (who died before 1674), the daughter of Sir William Wale, of North Lappenham, Rutland, an Alderman of London.

Philip Jones

Philip Jones of Fonmon (1618–1674), Welsh Colonel in the Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War and a Member of Parliament

Philippe d'Orléans

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), son of Philippe I and Regent of France, 1715-23

Rebecca Marshall

And again, with Marshall as Poppea and Boutell as Cyara in Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero (1674); as Queen Berenice and Clarona in John Crowne's The Destruction of Jerusalem (1677); and as Roxana and Statira in Lee's The Rival Queens (also 1677).

Semi-opera

The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island (1674) libretto by Thomas Shadwell after John Dryden and William Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest; music by Matthew Locke, Giovanni Battista Draghi and Pelham Humfrey

Sir John Maclean

Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet (1670–1716), Scottish noble who was the 20th Clan Chief of Clan Maclean from 1674 to 1716

Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet

He succeeded his cousin Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet as a baronet in 1674 but did not inherit the Gwydyr Estate, which passed to his predecessor's daughter Mary.

St. Mary's Church, Grodno

Local bishop of Grodno Aleksander Chodkiewicz financed the reconstruction and by 1674 the church regained its former look.

Stellidaura vendicante

La Stellidaura vendicante (Vengeful Stellidaura)(Naples 1674) is an opera by Francesco Provenzale.

Thaïs

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) in "What Kind of Mistress He Would Have" concludes, "Let her Lucrece all day be, Thaïs in the night to me, Be she such as neither will, Famish me, nor overfill."

Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon

With his first wife he had two sons and six daughters, including Thomas (1674–1675), George and Elizabeth.

Thomas Stanley of Grangegorman

Thomas Stanley (died 1674) of Grangegorman, Dublin, was knighted by Henry Cromwell Lord Deputy of Ireland on 24 January 1659 at Dublin Castle.

Thomas Temple

Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet (January 1613/14 at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England – 27 March 1674 at Ealing, Middlesex) was a British proprietor, governor of Acadia/ Nova Scotia (1657–70).

Timeline of Cheshire history

1674: John Ray's Collection of English Words includes written record of the Cheshire dialect.

Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

#John George (b. Bernburg, 14 February 1674 - killed in battle at Leuze, 9 September 1691).

Vincent Baron

He was born at Martres, in the département of the Haute-Garonne, France, 17 May 1604, and died in Paris on 21 January 1674.

Williams baronets

The Williams Baronetcy, of Elham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 November 1674 for Thomas Williams, Physician to Charles I and James II.

Yinzhi

Yinzhi, Prince Cheng (胤祉; 1674 - 1732), a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty and third son of the Kangxi Emperor


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