1675—1675: Beginning of Whig party under Shaftsbury
1675—1675: Rebuilding of St Paul's started by Wren (completed 1710)
4 Mar 1675—4 Mar 1675: John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England
10 Aug 1675—10 Aug 1675: Building of Royal Greenwich Observatory started
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1676
1676—1676: Compton Census, named after its initiator Henry Compton, Bishop of London, was
intended to discover the number of Anglican conformists, Roman Catholic recusants and
Protestant dissenters in England and Wales from enquiries made in individual parishes