Information about 1676
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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Events of 1676
January - June
- January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
- May 26 - a fire destroys the Town Hall and 624 houses in Southwark in England.
- June - Beginning of Bacon's Rebellion in the Virginia Colony.
July - December
- July 17 - In France, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning his father and brothers. Case also scares the king Louis XIV to start a series of investigations about possible poisonings and witchcraft, later called the Poison affair.
- 12 August - King Philip (Metacomet), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, was killed after a party led by Benjamin Church tracked him down.
- September 21 - Pope Innocent XI succeeds Pope Clement X as the 240th pope.
- November 16 - The Nantucket Island Prison founded on Nantucket Island in the English colony of Massachusetts.
- December - Ole Rømer makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
Undated
- First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer.
- King Philip's War continues, between the settlers in New England and the indigenous tribes led by Metacomet.
- First actions in the Russo-Turkish Wars.
- Emperor Yohannes I decrees that Muslims must live separately from Christians throughout Ethiopia.
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms.
- Turku was the meeting place of the States of Finland.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1676 MDCLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2429 |
| Armenian calendar | 1125 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -168 – -167 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2220 |
| Chinese calendar | 4312/4372-7-13 (乙卯年七月十三日) — to — 4313/4373-6-22(丙辰年六月廿二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1392 – 1393 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1668 – 1669 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5436 – 5437 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1731 – 1732 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1598 – 1599 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4777 – 4778 |
| Holocene calendar | 11676 |
| Iranian calendar | 1054 – 1055 |
| Islamic calendar | 1087 – 1088 |
| Japanese calendar | Enpō 0 (延宝0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2336 (皇紀2336年) |
| Julian calendar | 1721 |
| Korean calendar | 4009 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2219 |
- May 8 - Frederick I of Sweden (died 1751)
- March 17 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (died 1732)
- March 27 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (died April 8, 1735)
- April 23 - King Frederick I of Sweden (died 1751)
- May 28 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1754)
- June 21 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)
- July 3 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (died 1747)
- July 14 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (died 1763)
- August 26 - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1745)
- September 19 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (died 1733)
- October 8 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (died 1764)
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Deaths
- January 14 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (born 1602)
- January 29 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (born 1629)
- February 14 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (born c.1604)
- March 21 - Henri Sauval, French historian (born 1623)
- April 5 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (born 1606)
- April 29 - Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruijter, Dutch admiral (born 1607)
- June 7 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (born 1606)
- July 5 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (born 1613)
- July 22 - Pope Clement X (born 1590)
- July 25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (born 1604)
- August 11 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)
- September 10 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (born 1609)
- October 28 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (born 1595)
- November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)
- December 25 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (born 1609)
- December 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier, politician, and writer (born 1592)
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- Dahomey - Houegbadja, King of Dahomey (1645-1685)
- Ethiopia - Yohannes I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1667-1682)
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1675 colonial governors - Events of 1676 - 1677 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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- Francisco de Távora, Governor of Angola (1669-1676)
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