1675 in England

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Events from the year 1675 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

• 4 March - John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.
• 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.
• 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.
• 10 August - King Charles II places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in London.
• 20 September - The Great Fire of Northampton occurs in the county town.

Undated

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

Publications

• William Wycherley's satirical play The Country Wife.

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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)