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List of events
Events from the year 1674 in England
15 January – The Earl of Arlington is impeached by the House of Commons on charges of popery , but the Commons rejects the motion to remove him from office, 127 votes for and 166 against.
9 February (19 February New Style ) – England and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War .[ 1]
14 March – Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Ronas Voe – the English Royal Navy captures the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam Shetland .
26 March – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , London, re-opens, having been rebuilt after a fire in 1672.[ 2]
25 April – Great Fire of Watton, Norfolk .[ 3]
12 June – the British East India Company arranges a commercial treaty with the Maratha Empire after Henry Oxenden , the company's deputy governor, meets Emperor Shivaji at his recent coronation.[ 4] [ 5]
17 July – two skeletons of children are discovered at the White Tower (Tower of London) and believed at this time to be the remains of the Princes in the Tower . The remains are subsequently buried in Westminster Abbey .[ 6]
10 November – as provided in the Treaty of Westminster of 19 February, the Dutch Republic cedes its colony of New Netherland to England. This includes the colonial capital, New Orange , which is returned to its English name of New York . 8 February – Henry Sacheverell , churchman and politician (died 1724)
24 January – Thomas Tanner , bishop and antiquarian (died 1735)
March – Jethro Tull , agriculturist (died 1741)
18 April – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend , statesman (died 1738)
20 June – Nicholas Rowe , dramatist (died 1718)
3 July – James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey (died 1702)
17 July – Isaac Watts , hymnist (died 1748)
11 September – Elizabeth Rowe , poet and novelist (died 1737)
18 October – Beau Nash , dandy (died 1762)
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