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Born on Sunday February 2, 1676
- Baart Baarts Hos, Westzaan
- Cornelia de Goeij, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Annetje Ariens Drogendijk, Oostvoorne
- Atse Meinerts, Ljouwert
- Elisabeth Spruijt, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland
- Carel Copius, Rijnsburg
- Corstiaan Corstiaense, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Dirck Dircks Doorn, Waarder
- Annetje Ariens Drogendijk, Oostvoorne
- Beeligie Maertens van Salen (?), Reeuwijk
Died on Sunday February 2, 1676
- Maria Van Opstal, Steenhuffel Belgie
- Frank Gerritsen Schuurman (65), Lunteren
- Christoph Sassmannshausen (6), Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein
- Frank Gerritsdr Schuurman (61), Lunteren (GL)
- Frank Gerrits Schuurman (81), Lunteren (Ede)
- Harmken Lefferts (0), Weener,Dld
- Matheus Bourgonjon (75), Maldegem, België
- Madeleine BASSLER (36), Traubach-le-Haut (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
- Frank Gerritsen Schuurman (66), Lunteren Gld
- Franck GERRITSZ, Lunteren
Born on February 2
- 1650 » Nell Gwyn, English actress, mistress of King Charles II of England († 1687)
- 1650 » Pope Benedict XIII († 1730)
- 1651 » William Phips, Royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay († 1695)
- 1669 » Louis Marchand, French organist and composer († 1732)
- 1677 » Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer († 1745)
- 1695 » François de Chevert, French general († 1769)
- 1695 » William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist († 1772)
- 1700 » Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic († 1766)
- 1711 » Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg († 1794)
- 1714 » Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer († 1785)
Died on February 2
- 1648 » George Abbot, English author and politician (b. 1603)
- 1660 » Gaston, Duke of Orléans (b. 1608)
- 1660 » Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
- 1661 » Lucas Holstenius, German geographer and historian (b. 1596)
- 1675 » Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
- 1688 » Abraham Duquesne, French admiral (b. 1610)
- 1704 » Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
- 1712 » Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
- 1714 » John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
- 1723 » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1676
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- February 17 » Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
- June 1 » Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
- July 30 » Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- August 12 » Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
- September 19 » Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
- November 21 » The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.