1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, convinced that Sir William Berkeley, the royal governor of Virginia, is providing colonists insufficient protection against Indians, leads a rebellion and burns Jamestown. The rebellion ends when Bacon becomes sick and dies.
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1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, convinced that Sir William Berkeley, the royal governor of Virginia, is providing colonists insufficient protection against Indians, leads a rebellion and burns Jamestown. The rebellion ends when Bacon becomes sick and dies.
1675
London watchmaker Thomas Tompion, 36, improves on the design of watches; following a design by experimental physicist Robert Hooke, he produces one of the first English watches to be regulated by a balance spring.
Philosopher Gottfried W. Leibniz establishes the foundations of both integral and differential calculus.
Microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek at Delft gives the first accurate description of red corpuscles.
The Black Death kills 11,000 in Malta.
Giovanni Cassini discovers that the rings of Saturn are not a single flat disk surrounding the planet. The break in the rings he discovers is still known as the Cassini Division or Cassini Gap.
Greenwich Observatory is founded by King Charles II. On March 4 he appoints John Flamsteed as the first Astronomer Royal.
Ole Christensen Römer [b. Århus, Denmark, September 25, 1644, d. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19, 1710] measures the speed of light by measuring time differences of the eclipses of satellites of Jupiter.
1674
On February 19th England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York
John Sobieski is elected as King of Poland on 21st May
4th December: Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians. The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago.
1673 - February 17
French writer Moliere dies
1672
The Synod of Jerusalem brought together bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom, to discuss Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism.
1671
The buccaneer Henry Morgan captures Panama City in violation of the previous year's Anglo-Spanish treaty. Morgan stands trial, but Charles II forgives him, knights him, and proceeds to make him lieutenant-governor of Jamaica in 1674, charging him with the task of putting an end to piracy.
A small English party penetrates the Ohio River watershed beyond the Blue Ridge mountains.
Newton writes De methodis serierum et fluxionum ("on the method of infinite series and fluxions"), a description of his version of the calculus, but does not publish it.
Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He will later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
Giovanni Cassini calculates the distance from Earth to Mars, which enables him to determine the distance of all the planets from the Sun. His calculation is in near agreement with modern measurements.
Measure de la terre ("measure of the Earth") by Jean Picard includes his determination of the length of a meridian of latitude, the most accurate figure since the ancient Greeks and very close to today's accepted values.
14-02-1670
Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1669
"The first dated mezzotint in Britain was made in 1669 by William Sherwin of King Charles II."
4th October Rembrandt died in Amsterdam.
Ainu revolt in Japan
1668
Italian physician-naturalist Francesco Redi disproves the notion of spontaneous generation. He shows that no maggots will develop in meat, no matter how putrefied it may be, if it is covered with a thin cloth to protect it from flies that will lay eggs, but most people will continue for centuries to believe that maggots are products of spontaneous generation rather than of fly larva.
The Black Death reaches Austria, having traveled from Flanders to Westphalia and into Normandy and Switzerland.
Giovanni Cassini's Ephemerides bononienses Mediceorum siderum ("timetable of the Medicean stars") contains his computation of the movements and eclipses of the four satellites of Jupiter.
John Wallis is the first to suggest the law of conservation of momentum (the product of the mass and velocity of interacting objects is the same after the interaction as before).
Spanish conquistadors in the Pacific rename the Islas de los Ladrones found by Magellan in 1521. They call them Las Marianas to honor Maria Anna of Austria, widow of Spain's Felipe (Philip) IV.
1667
The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
June 15 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).
1666
Death toll from Black Death in London reaches nearly 100,000.
80% of the buildings in London destroyed by fire, between 2nd & 5th September
1665 - March 4
Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
1664
Kronenbourg is first produced.
August ~ The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1663
An epidemic of the Black Death at Amsterdam kills 10,000 of the city's 200,000 people
Optica promota by James Gregory gives the first description of a reflecting telescope; that is, a telescope that focuses light with a mirror rather than a lens.
1662
Short-timed experiment of the first public buses in Paris. Only holding 8 passengers per carriage
May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record
October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400,000