Timeline October 1684

Events in October 1684 4

• 1606 – 1684 Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) Died 1 October 1684, aged 78 Pierre Corneille, the dramatist who established French classical tragedy with plays such as Le Cid, Cinna and Horace, died in Paris on 1 October 1684. His work, built around conflicts of duty and honour, shaped French theatre for generations alongside that of Racine and Moliere. He was elected to the Academie francaise in 1647.
• 1684 Siege of Buda fails Holy League forces cannot retake the Ottoman fortress An army of the newly formed Holy League besieged the Ottoman-held fortress of Buda from July to October 1684. Despite heavy fighting and several breaches of the walls, the defenders held out and the siege was abandoned with the onset of winter. The fortress would not fall to Christian forces until a second siege in 1686.
• 1684 Leibniz publishes the first paper on differential calculus Nova Methodus introduces the dy/dx notation Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis in the journal Acta Eruditorum in October 1684, the first printed account of differential calculus. The paper introduced much of the notation, including the d symbol for differentials, still used today. It triggered a priority dispute with Isaac Newton over who had invented calculus first.
• 1684 Massachusetts Bay Colony charter revoked England's Court of Chancery annuls colonial self-government In October 1684 the English Court of Chancery ruled the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony void, citing the colony's defiance of trade and religious laws. The ruling stripped the Puritan colony of its right to self-government and paved the way for the royal Dominion of New England. The charter was not restored, and Massachusetts was ruled directly by royal governors from 1686.