1674 - What happened in 1674 ?
February 1674
Monday 19:
England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York.
May 1674
Monday 21:
John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.
» May 1674
November 1674
Saturday 10:
Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
December 1674
Tuesday 04:
Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
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