4th » Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek. (The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago or Chicago, Illinois.)
Famous Birthdays on December in 1674
25th » Thomas Halyburton, Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1712)
Famous Deaths for December 1674
9th » Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1609)