1675 in England

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Incumbents

4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.^[1]^[2]
25 March - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey.
13 April - Parliament refuses to vote funds for King Charles; suspended after sitting for just nine weeks.^[1]
21 June - Reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral in London under Christopher Wren begins to replace that destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.^[3]
10 August - King Charles II places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in London.^[3]
20 September - The Great Fire of Northampton occurs in the county town.^[4]

The Green Ribbon Club founded; the earliest political club, based in Fleet Street.^[1]
King Charles issues a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee Houses" due to the political activity which occurred in the newly popular establishments.^[5]
Bethlem Hospital, London, moves to new buildings in Moorfields, designed by Robert Hooke.
Briggflatts Meeting House built near Sedbergh.

1 April - George Shelvocke, privateer (died 1742)
29 May - Humphry Ditton, mathematician (died 1715)
2 September - William Somervile, poet (died 1742)
11 October - Samuel Clarke, philosopher (died 1729)
24 October - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, soldier and politician (died 1749)
Edmund Curll, bookseller and publisher (died 1757)

28 July - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer (born 1605)
28 November - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (born c. 1608)
6 December - John Lightfoot, churchman and scholar (born 1602)

1 2 3 4 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Willmoth, Frances (2004). "Flamsteed, John (1646–1719)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-04. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
1 2 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "The Fire of Northampton in September 20th 1675". Fire Northampton. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
↑ "The rise and fall of English coffee houses". Retrieved 2007-12-28.

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