1674

Year 1674 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - and the  sign the . A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of  to England, which renamed it
 * -  is elected by the nobility to be the King of.
 * - Coronation of as Chatrapati Shivaji at Raigad Fort.

July - December

 * - The French army under defeated the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under  at.
 * - : As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of, cedes  to.
 * - Father founds a mission on the shores of  to minister to the s (the mission would later grow into the city of ).

Births

 * -, French writer (d. )
 * -, English bishop and antiquarian (d. )
 * March -, English agriculturist (d. )
 * -, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. )
 * -, English hymnist (d. )
 * -, regent of France (d. )
 * -, Czech architect (d. )
 * -, Scottish theologian (d. )
 * Ki-Khosrow, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * - Italian composer (born )
 * -, French writer (born )
 * -, German composer (born )
 * -, French writer (born )
 * -, French writer (born )
 * - (born )
 * -, French painter (born )
 * October -, English poet (born )
 * -, English poet (born c.)
 * -, Dutch painter (born )
 * -, Icelandic poet (born )
 * -, English poet (born )
 * -, English statesman and historian (born )


 * See also .