1676 in England

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18 February – Isaac Newton observes to Robert Hooke that "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".^[1]
2 March – first performance of George Etherege's play The Man of Mode.^[1]
26 May – fire in Southwark destroys 625 houses.^[2]
September to November – major influenza epidemic; the first to be recorded as such.^[2]
11 December – first performance of William Wycherley's play The Plain Dealer.^[1]

Construction begins on Trinity College Library in Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.^[2]
The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Wren, is completed this summer.
Consecration of the first Greek Orthodox church in England, at Hog Lane, London.^[2]
The first fossilised bone of what is now known to be a dinosaur is discovered by Robert Plot, the femur of a Megalosaurus from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton.^[3]

4 January – Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Marske, Member of Parliament (died 1705)
19 January – John Weldon, composer (died 1736)
baptised 30 January – Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane, courtier and landowner (died 1744)
14 June – Sir John Rogers, 2nd Baronet, lawyer and politician (died 1744)
21 June (Old Style) – Anthony Collins, philosopher (died 1729)
26 August – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1745)^[4]
14 November – Benjamin Hoadly, clergy (died 1761)
29 November – Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet, politician (died 1733)
30 December – John Philips, poet (died 1709)

4 March – Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1617)
22 March – Lady Anne Clifford, literary patron (born 1590)
23 May (bur.) – William Samwell, architect (born 1628)
12 July – Henry Stubbe, writer and scholar (born 1632; drowned)
10 September – Gerrard Winstanley, religious reformer (born 1609)
11 October – Anthony Terill, theologian (born 1623)
25 December –
- Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (born 1609)
- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, soldier, politician and writer (born 1592)
Chesten Marchant, last monoglot speaker of the Cornish language

^ ^a ^b ^c "1676: Science." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Gale Group, Inc., 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 11 Oct, 2007
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 193–194. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Sarjeant, William A.S. (1997). "The earliert discoveries". In Farlow, James O.; Brett-Surman, Michael K. (eds.). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 3–11. ISBN 0-253-33349-0.
^ "Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford | prime minister of Great Britain". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 September 2021.

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