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{{Year nav|1684}} {{Year in various calendars|1684}} {{Year article header|1684}} == Events == * [[July 24]] – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails from France, again, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the [[Gulf of Mexico]], at the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]]. * [[October 7]] – [[Japan]]ese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is [[assassinate]]d, leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people. * [[December 10]] – [[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. === Undated === * France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain. * Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, [[Venice]] and [[Poland]] to liberate [[Europe]] from the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkish]] rule. * The [[Japan]]ese poet Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi [[Shrine]] at [[Osaka]]; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just ''count'' the verses. * The British East India Company receives [[China|Chinese]] permission to build a trading station at Canton. [[Tea]] sells in [[Europe]] for less than a shilling a [[wikt:pound|pound]], but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most [[English people]] to afford. * Smuggled [[tea]] is drunk much more than legally imported tea. * [[England]] has its coldest [[winter]] in living memory; the [[River Thames]] and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over. * [[John Bunyan]] writes The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2. * The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the River Thames frost fairs on the [[Thames]] in London. == Births == * [[January 1]] – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (died [[1748]]) * [[January 14]] – Jean-Baptiste