1676 in England
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Events from the year 1676 in the Kingdom of England.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Charles II
Events
- 18 February - Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".[1]
- 2 March - First performance of George Etherege's play The Man of Mode.[1]
- 26 May - Fire in Southwark destroys 625 houses.[2]
- September to November - Major influenza epidemic; the first to be recorded as such.[2]
- 11 December - First performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer.[1]
Undated
- Construction begins on Trinity College Library in Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.[2]
- The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Wren, is completed.
- Consecration of the first Greek Orthodox church in England, at Hog Lane, London.[2]
- The first fossilised bone of what is now known to be a dinosaur is discovered by Robert Plot, the femur of a Megalosaurus from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton.[3]
Births
- 19 January - John Weldon, composer (died 1736)
- baptised 30 January - Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane, courtier and landowner (died 1744)
- 14 June - Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet, lawyer and politician (died 1744)
- 21 June (Old Style) - Anthony Collins, philosopher (died 1729)
- 26 August - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1745)
- 14 November - Benjamin Hoadly, clergy (died 1761)
- 29 November - Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet, politician (died 1733)
- 30 December - John Philips, poet (died 1709)
Deaths
- 4 March - Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1617)
- 22 March - Lady Anne Clifford, literary patron (born 1590)
- 23 May (bur.) - William Samwell, architect (born 1628)
- 12 July - Henry Stubbe, writer and scholar (born 1632; drowned)
- 10 September - Gerrard Winstanley, religious reformer (born 1609)
- 11 October - Anthony Terill, theologian (born 1623)
- 25 December -
- Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (born 1609)
- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, soldier, politician and writer (born 1592)
- Chesten Marchant, last monoglot speaker of the Cornish language
