1684 in England

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January–March - England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.^[1]^[2] The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the Frost Fair on the Thames in London.
5 January - Charles II gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.
15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.^[3]
10 May - Titus Oates arrested for perjury.^[4]
31 July - The village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire.
10 December - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

The East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton.^[1]
Robert Hooke invents the semaphore line.^[3]
John Bunyan writes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress

6 June - Nathanial Lardner, theologian (died 1768)
16 November - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician (died 1775)
date unknown - James Figg, first English bare-knuckle boxing champion (died 1734)

1 2 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1684". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
↑ Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 194–196. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Marshall, Alan (2004). "Oates, Titus (1649–1705)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-03-22. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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