Events from the year1684 inEngland.

• Monarch –Charles II

• January–March – England has its coldestwinter in living memory; theRiver Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.^[1][2] TheChipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at theFrost Fair on the Thames in London.
• 5 January –Charles II gives the titleDuke of St Albans toCharles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son byNell Gwyn.
• 15 March – highwaymanJohn Nevison hanged in York for murder.^[3]
• 10 May –Titus Oates arrested forperjury.^[4]
• 31 July – the village ofChurchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire.
• 10 December –Isaac Newton's derivation ofKepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paperDe motu corporum in gyrum, is read to theRoyal Society byEdmund Halley.

• TheEast India Company receivesChinese permission to build a trading station atCanton.^[1]
• Robert Hooke invents thesemaphore line.^[3]
• John Bunyan writes the second part ofThe Pilgrim's Progress

• 4 January
  • Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath, politician (died 1720)
  • Henry Grove, nonconformist minister (died 1738)
• 19 February –George Duckett, Member of Parliament (died 1732)
• 21 March –Oley Douglas, Member of Parliament (died 1719)
• 22 March –William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, noble (died 1764)
• 2 April –Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, noble (died 1714)
• 6 June –Nathaniel Lardner, theologian (died 1768)
• 24 August –Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, politician (died 1746)
• 17 September –Henry Cantrell, Anglican clergyman, writer (died 1773)
• 2 October –Thomas Seaton, religious writer (died 1741)
• 16 October –Peter Walkden, Presbyterian minister and diarist (died 1769)
• 11 November –Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, noble (died 1750)
• 12 November –Edward Vernon, admiral (died 1757)
• 16 November –Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician (died 1775)
• 15 December –James Jurin, scientist and physician (died 1750)
• 16 December –Samuel Clark of St Albans, theologian (died 1750)
• 31 December –William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, landowner and Member of Parliament (died 1756)

• 13 January –Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, noble (born 1628)
• 5 February –Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (born 1617)
• 11 February –Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1613)
• 24 March –Elizabeth Ridgeway, poisoner (burned at the stake)
• 28 March(bur.) –John Lambert, Parliamentarian general (born 1619)
• 1 April –Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (born 1603)
• 5 April – LordWilliam Brouncker, mathematician (born 1602)
• 30 April –James Holloway, merchant and conspirator (hanged)
• 4 May –John Nevison, highwayman (born 1639; hanged)
• 10 May –Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, noble (born 1615)
• 20 June –Sir Thomas Armstrong, politician (born c. 1633; hanged)
• 6 July –Peter Gunning, royalist churchman (born 1614)
• 28 July –Charlotte Paston, Countess of Yarmouth, noblewoman, illegitimate daughter of Charles II (born c. 1650)
• 8 August –George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born 1622)
• October –Dud Dudley, ironmaster (born 1600?)
• 12 October –William Croone, physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (born 1633)
• 23 November –William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, noble (born 1617)
• 10 December –Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1615)
• 22 December –Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, politician (born 1608)

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