1699- January 14 - Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for having wrongly persecuted witches.
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1699- January 14 - Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for having wrongly persecuted witches.
1698
Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia. Dutch undertakers revolt after funeral reforms in Amsterdam (I swear I am not making this historical event up). William III leaves Holland.
A revolt of undertakers? Do they throw soil and vandalize epitaphs?
1697
The Royal African Company loses its monopoly on the slave trade.The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia.
1696
A pioneer English statistician calculates that England's population will reach a high of 22 million in 3500 A.D. "in case the world should last so long."
A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland.
Seeds from the Polynesian pomelo tree (Citrus grandis) introduced into Barbados by an English sea captain named Shaddock. A sweeter and thinner mutation of the fruit, or a botanist's development of the "shaddock," will later be called grapefruit.
Sir Isaac Newton appointed to the post of warden of the Royal Mint:
December 24 - The Inquisition burns a number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal.
1695
The Bank of Scotland is founded
A window tax is imposed in England causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
Russia declares war on Turkey.
£2 fine for swearing in England.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II
1694
November 21 - Birth of François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire.
1693
Mt. Etna goes kablooie. The Amish christian sect is formed.
1692 - February 29
English poet John Byrom is born
1691
French poet Isaac de Benserade died October 10,1691
1690
The first paper money is issued in America. Puritans attack Quebec city. Uranus is discovered by John Flamsteed, who mislabels it a star. Charles le Brun, a French artist whose name translates as 'Charlie Brown', dies.
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
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