1676

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1673 1674 1675 – 1676 – 1677 1678 1679

Events

• January 19 - Feodor III become Tsar of Russia.
• The Polish-Turkish War (1671 - 1676) ended
• King Philip's War (1675 - 1676) ended
• Port-de-Paix, Haiti has its first slave revolt

Births

• August 26 - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain
• September 16 - Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, mother of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, grandmother of Marie Antoinette
• October 8 - Benito Jeronimo Feijoo, Galician scholar
• December 19 - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, French composer
• Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor

Deaths

• January 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
• January 29 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
• February 14 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
• March 21 – Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
• April 5 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1606)
• April 29 – Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruijter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
• June 7 – Paul Gerhardt, German writer of church hymns
• July 5 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
• July 22 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
• July 25 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
• August 11 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer
• September 10 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
• October 28 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
• November 1 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
• December 25 – Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
• December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier, politician, and writer (b. 1592)