1689
Aphra Benn died
Mary Wortley Montague born
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1689
Aphra Benn died
Mary Wortley Montague born
1688
A collection of English nobels invite William of Orange to inved their own country and drive out the Catholic King James II. William accepts and lands at Brixton later in the year. Louis XIV of France, in response, declares war on the Netherlands. By the end of the year, James has fled England for France.
In literature, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress are all published for the first time. Paradise Lost goes into its fourth edition, complete with illustrations.
we are actually 5 years ahead because of some so-called mathematician's mistake in math (one mistake is he forgot the year 0)
There never was a Year 0, by our present calendar. The number of years since the birth of Jesus is quite open to debate, however.
1687
Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published.
1686
August 18 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus.
France annexes Madagascar.
The state of Cayor on Africa's west coast loses its Baol tributary, but troops of the Wolof empire will soon invade Cayor, many of whose tribespeople will flee to Baol. Rulers of Baol will successfully resist European efforts to conquer them until the French occupy their territory in the middle of the 19th century.
1685
October 18-19 - Louis XIV declares the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal
March 21 - Johann Sebastian Bach is born
1684
July 24 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails from France, again, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
December 10 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford.
England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.
1683 - December 15
English writer Izaak Walton dies
1682
Robert de la Salle claims Louisiana for France. Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles. Halley's comet appears and is observed by the man for whom it is named.
1681
March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
The last dodo bird is killed.
1680
On November 17th, the Whigs organize a pope burning procession in London: also The Black Death strikes Dresden in epidemic proportions. (according to the Internet)
1679
French explorer Daniel Greysolon, 40, sieur Duluth (or Du Lhut), reaches the great inland sea that will be called Lake Superior and claims the region for Louis XIV.
The Black Death claims at least 76,000 lives at Vienna.
Tuscany's Arno River is brought under control by Italian engineer Vincenzo Viviani, who uses a modification of a plan devised by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495. The Arno will nevertheless continue to flood periodically, inundating Florence.
Giovanni Cassini prepares Carte de la lune ("chart of the Moon") for the Académie des Sciences, the best map of the Moon available to astronomers until the advent of photography.
Denis Papin demonstrates his "steam digester," a pressure cooker with a safety valve used for cooking bones.
Leibniz introduces binary arithmetic by showing that every number can be represented by the symbols 0 and 1 only.
1678
Habeus Corpus act passed in England.
1677 - February 8
French astronomer Jacques Cassini is born