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| Nathaniel Bacon
(1647 - 1676)
| | M : | Heinrich Schütz : Symphoniae sacrae
II
| | PH : | Treaty of Ulm | | RP : | Eng. Civil War: Charles I agrees to abolish episcopacy and restore Presbyterianism | | PH : | Frederick Henry of Orange dies; succeeded by his son William II of Orange | | PH : | Revolt against Czar Alexis I in Moscow | | RP : | Calvinists acknowledged by Lutheran as co-religionists | | ED : | Thomas May : History of the Long Parliament | | RP : | Dismissal of Anglican professors at Oxford University | | VA : | Dresden Academy of Arts founded | | ST : | Johan Hevel: Selenographia, on the lunar surface | | DL : | First newspaper advertisement | | DL : | Yellow fever in Barbados |
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| | | LT : | Robert Herrick: Hesperides | | PH : | King Christian IV of Denmark dies; succeeded by Frederick III | | PH : | Naples restored to Span. rule | | PH : | Outbreak of the Fronde in France | | PH : | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War; is condemned by Pope Innocent X (bull Zelo Domus Dei) | | PH : | John II Casimir succeeds his brother Vladislav IV as King of Poland | | RP : | George Fox founds the Society of Friends (Quakers) | | RP : | John Lilburne: The Foundation of Freedom | | RP : | John Stearne: Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft | | RP : | Sabbatai Zevi, self-proclaimed Messiah, founds a Jewish sect | | M : | Aria and recitative become two distinct unities in opera | | ED : | University of Bamberg founded | | ST : | John Wilkins: Mathematical Magic | | DL : | Mirrors and chandeliers are being manufactured in Murano |
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| | | LT : | Richard Lovelace: Lucasta | | PH : | War of the Fronde begins in France; ended by Treaty of Ruel; followed shortly by outbreak of second Fronde | | PH : | Charles I tried and beheaded; Prince of Wales takes title Charles II and is proclaimed king by the Scots in Edinburgh | | PH : | England declared a Commonwealth (The Interregnum) | | PH : | Sultan Ibrahim deposed and murdered; succeeded by his son Mohammed IV | | PH : | Maryland Assembly passes act of toleration, professing belief in the Holy Trinity GO ! | | RP : | René Descartes: Les Passions de L'âme | | DL : | In Great Britain, English becomes language of all legal documents in place of Latin | | RP : | John Lilburne: An Agreement for the Free People of England | | RP : | John Milton: The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates , defence of Charles I's execution | | ST : | Dutch physician Isbrand de Diemerbrock publishes his study of the plague, De peste | | PH : | Puritan exiles from Virginia settle in Providence, Md. | | ST : | First Brit. navy frigate, "Constant Warwick", constructed | | DL : | Free enterprise in England receives state support |
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| | | LT : | Anne Bradstreet: Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America published by her brother without her knowledge | | M : | Heinrich Schütz : Symphoniae sacrae
III
| | M : | Samuel Scheidt : Tablatur-Buch
harmonised accompaniments for 100 sacred songs and psalms
| | PH : | Charles II lands in Scotland | | PH : | Treaty of Nuremberg between the Holy Roman Emperor and Sweden amplifies Peace of Westphalia | | LT : | Beginning of modern development of Jap. "No" drama | | RP : | Richard Baxter: The Saints' Everlasting Rest | | ED : | Mathew Hale: Analysis of the Civil Law | | ED : | Thomas Hobbes: The Elements of Law, Moral and Political | | ED : | Gilles Ménage: Dictionnaire étymologique | | ED : | James Ussher: Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti (giving beginning of world as 4004 B.C.) | | M : | Beginning of modern harmony; development of modulation | | M : | Athanasius Kircher: Musurgia universalis, theory | | M : | The overture as musical form emerges in two types, Italian and French | | DL : | Opening of first coffee house in England, at Oxford | | DL : | First fiacres in Paris | | DL : | Tea first drunk in England | | DL : | Sir Richard Weston, Eng. agriculturist, advocates cultivation of turnips | | LT : | Henry Vaughan: Silex Scintillans |
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| | | LT : | Henry Vaughan: Olor Iscanus | | PH : | Charles II crowned King of Scots; flees to France after his defeat by Cromwell at Worcester | | PH : | Parliament votes for release of Condé, Fronde leader | | PH : | Treaty between Czar Alexis I and the Cossacks | | PH : | King Louis XIV attains majority | | PH : | Eng. Navigation Act, gives Eng. ships monopoly of foreign trade GO ! | | PH : | Yetuna, new shogun of Japan, overcomes two rebellions in Edo | | LT : | First public "Comedy-house" in Vienna | | RP : | John Donne: Essays in Divinity (posth.) | | RP : | Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, defence of absolute monarchy | | RP : | Jeremy Taylor Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying | | M : | The young King Louis XIV of France appears as a dancer in a court ballet | | DL : | Dutch settle at Cape of Good Hope | | ED : | Mazarin's library closed by order of the Parlement | | ST : | Ital. astronomer Giovanni Riccioli introduces in his map of the moon many of the modern names of lunar features | | LT : | Division of publisher and printer begins in book trade |
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| | | LT : | Henry Vaughan: Solitary Devotions and The Mount of Olives | | PH : | Eng. Parliament passes Act of Pardon and Oblivion to reconcile Royalists | | PH : | Provisional Fronde government set up in Paris | | PH : | Louis XIV re-establishes lawful government, recalling Mazarin | | RP : | Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac: Cocrate Chrétien, religious dialogues | | RP : | John Donne: Paradoxes, Problems (posth.) | | ED : | Hayashi Shunsai: O-Dai-Ichi-Ran, a history of Japan | | RP : | Gerrard Winstanley: The Law of Freedom in a Platform | | M : | The minuet comes into fashion at Fr. court | | M : | First opera house in Vienna | | ED : | Imperial Ger. Academy of Naturalists founded | | ST : | Ger. scientist Otto von Guericke invents the air pump | | DL : | First London coffee house opened in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill | | VA : | Artemisia Gentileschi dies | | PH : | Start of first Anglo-Dutch war |
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| | | PH : | Ferdinand IV becomes King of the Romans | | PH : | End of Fronde | | PH : | The "Great Elector" abolishes the estates; establishes a standing army | | PH : | Peasants' revolt in Bern under Nikolaus Leuenberg | | ED : | Chetham's Library, Manchester, founded | | RP : | Blaise Pascal joins the Jansenists at Port-Royal | | ED : | The London Polyglot Bible (in 10 languages) | | ST : | Armamentarium chirurgicum, work of Ger. surgeon Johann Schultes on surgical instruments and procedures (posth.) | | DL : | Izaak Walton: The Compleat Angler | | DL : | First letter boxes in Paris | | M : | Johann Pachelbel born 30 August |
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| | | LT : | Henry Vaughan: Flores Solitudinis | | PH : | Treaty of Westminster ends first Anglo-Dutch war; Dutch recognise Navigation Act | | PH : | Treaty of Commerce between England and Sweden | | PH : | Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates on becoming a Roman Catholic; succeeded by her cousin Charles X | | PH : | Coronation of Louis XIV at Rheims | | PH : | War between Russia and Poland | | DL : | Johann Amos Comenius publishes in Nuremberg first picture book for children, Orbis sensualium pictus | | RP : | John Milton: Defensio secunda | | ST : | Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat state the theory of probability | | DL : | Entailor, fee tail, after Span. model, introduced in Germany | | M : | Samuel Scheidt dies 30 March |
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| | | LT : | Henry Vaughan: Silex Scintillans, second part | | PH : | Cromwell dissolves Parliament and divides England into 11 districts | | RP : | Anglican services prohibited in England | | PH : | Outbreak of first Northern War | | ED : | Pierre Borel: Tréso des recherches et antiquités Gauloises | | RP : | Oliver Cromwell readmits Jews into England | | ED : | William Drummond: A History of the Five Jameses (posth.) | | RP : | Thomas Fuller: Church History of Britain | | RP : | Thomas Hobbes: Elementorum philosophia | | RP : | Pope Innocent X dies; Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII | | RP : | Thomas Stanley: A History of Philosophy | | ST : | Chin. scientist and naturalist Ch'en yüan-lung publishes Ko-chih-ching-yüan, on new inventions | | DL : | First regular newspaper in Berlin |
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| | | PH : | Treaty of Königsberg and Alliance of Marienberg between Sweden and Brandenburg | | PH : | Second Protectorate Parliament | | PH : | King John IV of Portugal dies; succeeded by his son Alfonso VI | | RP : | Manasseh ben Israel: Vindiciae Judaeorum, reply to attacks on Cromwell's readmission of Jews | | RP : | John Bunyan: Some Gospel Truth Opened | | RP : | Marchamont Needham: The Excellency of a Free State | | RP : | Blaise Pascal: Lettres provinciales against Jesuits | | RP : | Spinoza excommunicated | | VA : | Academy of Painting in Rome founded | | M : | Opening of first London opera house | | ST : | Thomas Wharton describes anatomy of glands | | DL : | Regiment of grenadier guards formed | | DL : | Hôpital général, Paris, opens, combining hospital, poorhouse, and factory |
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| | | LT : | Richard Lovelace dies | | LT : | Henry Vaughan: The Chemist's Key | | PH : | Emperor Ferdinand III dies; his son Leopold I succeeds him | | PH : | Oliver Cromwell rejects offer of title "king" | | PH : | Creation of a new House of Lords increases Cromwell's power | | PH : | Treaty of Bromberg: Brandenburg allied with Poland against Sweden | | RP : | Richard Baxter: A Call to the Unconverted | | RP : | Johann Amos Comenius: Opera didactice omnia | | ED : | Le Sieur Saunier: L'encyclopédie des beaux esprits, believed to be first reference book with "encyclopédie" in title | | ED : | Accademia de Cimento founded in Florence | | ST : | Dutch scientist Christiann Huygens designs first pendulum clocks | | DL : | Drinking chocolate introduced in London | | DL : | First stockings and fountain pens manufactured in Paris |
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| | | PH : | Treaty of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark ends first war | | PH : | Aurangzeb imprisons his father, Shah Jahan, and succeeds him as Mogul Emperor | | PH : | Charles X begins Second Northern War | | PH : | Oliver Cromwell dies; succeeded as Lord Protector by his son Richard | | PH : | Leopold I elected Holy Roman Emperor | | PH : | Formation of Rhenish League under Fr. protectorate | | RP : | James Harrington: The Prerogative of Popular Government | | ED : | Edward Phillips: A New World of Words | | RP : | Société des missions étrangères founded in Paris | | ST : | J.R. Glauber: De natura salium | | ST : | Jan Swammerdam first observes red blood corpuscles | | ST : | Robert Hooke, naturalist and philosopher, invents the balance spring for watches | | DL : | Swed. Financier Johann Palmstruck devises first bank note, issued by the Swed. state bank |
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| | | M : | Henry Purcell born | | PH : | Richard Cromwell resigns | | PH : | Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain | | RP : | Henry More: The Immortality of the Soul | | ED : | William Somner: Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum | | ST : | Eng. physician Thomas Willis describes first typhoid fever | | ED : | Prussian State Library, Berlin, founded |
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| | | PH : | Charles X of Sweden dies; succeeded by Charles XI | | PH : | Parliament invites Charles II to return to England (The Restoration) | | PH : | Peace of Oliva signed, ending war between Austria, Poland, Sweden, and Brandenburg, and recognising the "Great Elector's " sovereignty in E. Prussia | | PH : | Peace of Copenhagen ends war between Sweden and Denmark | | PH : | Dan. crown becomes hereditary | | LT : | Patents granted for reopening of London theatres | | RP : | James Harrington: Political Discourse | | ED : | James Howell: Lexicon Tetraglotten, Eng.-Fr.-Ital.-Span. dictionary | | DL : | Dutch peasants (Boers) settle in S. Africa | | DL : | Royal African Company founded | | DL : | Famous "Café Procope" opens in Paris | | DL : | Water closets arrive from France in England | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti born 2 May | | VA : | Diego Velázquez dies |
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| | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes born | | PH : | Cardinal Mazarin dies; Louis XIV begins his personal rule | | PH : | Coronation of Charles II | | PH : | Peace of Kardis between Russia and Sweden ends Northern War | | PH : | "Cavalier Parliament" meets | | DL : | Famine in India, no rain since 1659 | | PH : | Mohammed Kiuprili, Grand Vizier of Turkey dies; succeeded by his son Ahmed Kiuprili | | LT : | Sir William Davenant, poet and dramatist, opens Lincoln's Inn Theatre, London | | RP : | John Eliot translates the Bible into Algonquin (first Amer. Bible edition) | | RP : | Joseph Glanvilil: The Vanity of Dogmatizing | | M : | Académie Royale de Danse founded by Louis XIV | | M : | Mathew Lock made court composer to Charles II | | M : | Edward Lowe: Short Direction for the Performance of Cathedra Servies, to revive organ accompaniment, suppressed during Commonwealth | | ST : | Robert Boyle: The Skeptical Chymist, with definition of chemical elements | | ST : | Christian Huyghens invents the manometer for ascertaining elastic forces of gases | | ST : | John Evelyn: Fumifugium, or the Inconvenience of the Air and Smoke of London Dissipated, an early attack on air pollution | | ED : | Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen, founded | | VA : | Antoine Coypel born 11 March |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: The Wild Gallant | | PH : | Elizabeth of Bohemia, "the Winter Queen", dies | | PH : | Shun Chih, first Manchu Emperor of China dies; succeeded by his son K'ang-hsi | | RP : | Act of Uniformity gives assent to revised Eng. prayer book | | ED : | Thomas Fuller: The worthies of England, biographical reference work (posth.) | | VA : | Louis XIV begins to build palace of Versailles | | ED : | Founding of the Academia Leopoldina in Vienna | | ST : | The Royal Society receives charter from Charles II | | DL : | Last silver pennies minted in London |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: The Rival Ladies | | PH : | Turks declare War on Holy Roman Empires | | LT : | Colbert founds Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in Paris | | LT : | The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, opens | | RP : | Robert Boyle: Concerning the Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy | | RP : | Lord Herbert of Cherbury: De religione gentilium (posth.) | | RP : | Writings of Descartes put on the Index | | ST : | Guericke constructs a frictional electrical machine | | ST : | John Newton discovers the binomial theorem | | DL : | First gold guinea pieces coined in England | | DL : | Hearth tax in England | | DL : | Turnpike tolls introduced in England |
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| | | PH : | Alliance between France and Brandenburg | | PH : | Truce of Vasvar between Turks and Austrians | | RP : | Conventicle Act, against Nonconformists, forbids meetings of more than five people | | RP : | The Trappist Order founded at La Trappe, Normandy | | M : | French horn becomes an orchestral instrument | | ST : | Thomas Willis: Cerebri anatome on the nervous system | | DL : | "Compagnie des Indes Occidentales" formed to control Fr. trade in Canada, S.America, W.Africa and W. Indies | | DL : | Introduction of large periwig style | | DL : | First Royal Marine Regiment | | PH : | Start of second Anglo-Dutch war |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: The Indian Emperor | | PH : | Philip IV of Spain dies; succeeded by his son Charles II | | PH : | Absolutism introduced into Denmark by Lex Regia | | LT : | Journal des Savants, first literary periodical, started in Paris | | RP : | John Bunyan: The Holy City | | ED : | Codex Theodosianus, ed by Jacques Godefroy | | RP : | John Eliot: Communion of Churches, privately printed at Harvard, Mass. | | RP : | Five-Mile Act put restrictions on Nonconformist ministers | | ST : | Philosophical Transactions, first scientific journal in England | | ST : | Giovanni Cassini determines rotations of Jupiter, Mars, and Venus | | ST : | Peter Chamberlen invents midwifery forceps | | ST : | Francis Grimaldi: Physico-mathesis de lumine (posth.) explains diffraction of light | | ST : | Robert Hooke: Micrographia, on the microscope | | ED : | University of Kiel founded | | PH : | Colony of New Jersey founded | | ST : | Issac Newton experiments on gravitation; invents differential calculus | | ED : | First modern census taken in Quebec | | ED : | Caleb Cheeshateaumuck, first N. Amer. Indian to take an A.B. Degree at Harvard | | DL : | First issue of the London Gazette | | DL : | The Prince Archbishop of Münster sells 7,000 of his subjects as solders | | DL : | The Great Plague of London begins, killing 68,596 | | VA : | Nicolas Poussin dies |
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| | | PH : | France and Dutch declare war on England | | PH : | Quadruple alliance between Holland, Brandenburg, Brunswick, and Denmark to secure safety of Holland | | PH : | Treaty of Cleves between Brandenburg and Neubrug for partition of Jülick-Cleves | | PH : | Hungarian noblemen revolt against Emperor Leopold I | | RP : | First Armenian Bible printed | | RP : | John Bunyan: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners | | RP : | Leibniz: De arte combinatoria | | RP : | Raskol (Great Schism) breaks out in Russ. Church | | RP : | John Tillotson: The Rule of Faith | | M : | Antonio Stradivari labels his first violin | | ST : | Issac Newton measures the moon's orbit | | DL : | First Cheddar cheese | | DL : | Great Fire of London | | VA : | Gobelin workshops established in Paris by Colbert | | DL : | Cricket Club founded at St. Alban's , Herfordshire, England | | VA : | Frans Hals dies |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: The Maiden Queen, Sir Martin Marall and an adaptation of The Tempest | | PH : | Truce of Andrusovo ends 13-year war between Russia and Poland | | PH : | Secret treaty between Louis XIV and Charles II against Spain | | PH : | War of Devolution begins as Fr. troops invade Netherlands | | PH : | Shah Abbas II of Persia dies; succeeded by his son Suleiman | | PH : | Alfonso VI of Portugal banished to the Azores by his brother Pedro, the regent | | PH : | Peace of Breda between the Dutch, France and England | | RP : | Pope Alexander VII dies; Giulio Rospigliosi becomes Pope Clement IX | | ED : | Fr. jurist Guillaume Lamoignon compiles the Code Louis | | RP : | Leibniz: Nova methodus discendique juris | | RP : | Samuel Pufendorf: De statu republicae Germanicae | | ST : | National Observatory, Paris , founded | | DL : | Fr. army uses hand grenades | | PH : | Treaty of Breda ends second Anglo-Dutch war | | VA : | Alessandro Magnasco born |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: The Mock Astrologer and Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr | | PH : | Alliance of the Hague signed by English and Dutch | | PH : | Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognises independence of Portugal | | PH : | Brit. East India Company obtains control of Bombay | | PH : | Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends War of Devolution between France and Spain | | PH : | John II Casimir, King of Poland abdicates | | PH : | Treaty between Louis XIV and Leopold I concerning future partition of Span. realms | | RP : | Joseph Glanvill: Plus ultra, or Progress of Knowledge since Aristotle | | RP : | Henry More: Divine Dialogues | | RP : | William Penn: Sandy Foundation Shaken, questions the doctrine of the Trinity | | RP : | Sir Josiah Child: Brief Observations Concerning Trade and the Interest of Money | | ST : | Robert Hooke: Discourse on Earthquakes | | ST : | Isaac Newton constructs reflecting telescope | | DL : | Oder-Spree Canal finished | | M : | François Couperin born 10 November |
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| | | PH : | Michael Wisniowiecki, a Lithuanian, elected King of Poland | | PH : | John Locke's constitution for Carolina approved, S. Carolina founded GO ! | | PH : | Venetians lose Crete, their last colonial possession, to the Turks | | RP : | Aurangzeb bans Hindu religion in India | | PH : | Last meeting of the Hanseatic League | | RP : | Pope Clement IX dies | | RP : | William Penn: No Cross, No Crown | | M : | Royal patent for founding Académie Royale des Opéras granted | | M : | Mathew Locke: The Treasury of Musick | | ED : | Edmund Castell: Lexicon Heptaglotton | | ST : | Phosphorus prepared for first time | | ST : | Nicolaus Steno begins the modern study of geology | | ST : | Jan Swammerdam: History of the Insects | | DL : | Outbreak of cholera in China | | DL : | Earliest Fr. trading station in India | | VA : | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn dies |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: first and second parts of Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada | | PH : | Defensive alliance between France and Bavaria | | PH : | Treaty of Dover between England and France | | PH : | Frederick III, King of Denmark, dies; succeeded by Christian V | | PH : | Rebellion of Ukrainian Cossacks crushed | | LT : | John Dryden appointed historiographer royal and poet laureate | | LT : | First Ital. "commedia dell'arte" companies appear in Germany | | RP : | Cardinal Emilio Altieri becomes Pope Clement X | | ED : | John Milton: The Historie of Britain | | RP : | Pascal: Pensées (posth.) | | RP : | Spinoza: Tractatus theologico-politicus | | ST : | Paul Amman: Medicina critica | | ST : | Ital. scientist Giovanni Borelli attempts to use artificial wings for flying | | ST : | Engl. physician Thomas Willis describes for first time typical symptoms of diabetes | | PH : | Hudson's Bay Company incorporated by royal charter to trade in region of N. America draining into Hudson Bay | | DL : | Louis XIV's Minister of War introduces uniforms and paper cartridges in Fr. army | | DL : | First minute hands on watches |
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| | | PH : | Turks declare war on Poland | | RP : | First Bible edition in Arabic, printed in Rome | | RP : | John Bunyan: A Confession of My Faith | | ED : | Stephen Skinner: Etymologicon linguae anglicanae | | M : | Paris Opéra opens | | ST : | Leibniz defines nature and existence of the ether | | DL : | Eng. Crown resumes direct control of customs system | | DL : | Founding of the Fr. Senegal Company | | M : | Tomaso Albinoni born 14 June |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: Marriage à la Mode and The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery | | DL : | Stop of Eng. exchequer; cash payments suspended for 12 months | | PH : | Declaration of Indulgence issued by Charles II (withdrawn in 1673) | | PH : | Britain declares war on the Dutch | | PH : | France declares war on the Dutch | | ED : | Clarendon Press, official printers of Oxford University, founded | | ED : | Elias Ashmore: Institutions, Laws, Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter | | RP : | William Cave: Primitive Christianity | | RP : | Confessions of faith of the Greek Orthodox Church revived by the Synod of Jerusalem | | ED : | William Tempel: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands | | DL : | Fulham Pottery, London, founded | | M : | First public concert at Whitefriars, London | | ST : | Root ipecacuanha introduced for medicinal purposes in Europe | | ST : | Flexible hose for use in fighting fires introduced | | ST : | John Josselym: New England's Rarities Discovered, on local flora and fauna | | DL : | Charter granted to the Royal African Company | | PH : | Start of third Anglo-Dutch war | | LT : | Anne Bradstreet dies 16 September | | M : | Heinrich Schütz dies 6 November |
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| | | LT : | Thomas Traherne: Roman Forgeries | | LT : | John Dryden: Amboyna | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Incidental music
to Molière's play Le Malade imaginaire ('The Hypochondriac')
| | PH : | Test Act excludes Roman Catholics from office in England | | PH : | After preliminary peace between Brandenburg and France the "Great Elector" promises, in Treaty of Vossen, not to support any enemies of Louis XIV | | PH : | Emperor Leopold I declares war on France | | PH : | King Michael of Poland dies | | PH : | Fr. expedition against Ceylon | | ED : | Robert Clave; Catalogue of All the Books Printed in England Since the Dreadful Fire of London in 1666 | | LT : | Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his Zhitie, first Russ. autobiography | | M : | Mathew Locke: The Present Practice of Music Vindicated | | ED : | University of Innsbruck founded | | ST : | Stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) discovered | | DL : | Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank, London | | DL : | Mitsui family's trading and banking house in Japan founded |
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| | | LT : | Thomas Traherne dies | | LT : | John Dryden: The State of Innocence | | PH : | Jan Sobieski elected as Jan III, King of Poland | | PH : | Sivaji Bhonsla declares himself independent of the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb; founds Mahratta state and is crowned at Raigarh | | PH : | Office of Stadholder of the United Provinces becomes hereditary in the House of Orange | | LT : | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, rebuilt after the fire and reopened | | ED : | Anthony à Wood: Historia et antiquitates universitatis Oxoniensis | | RP : | Nicolas Malebranch: De la recherche de la vérité | | ED : | Louis Moreri: Le Grand Dictionnaire historique, first encyclopedic reference work on history | | ST : | John Mayow: Tractatus quinque medico-physici, on the nature of combustion | | ST : | Thomas Willis: Pharmaceutice rationalis | | LT : | Robert Herrick dies in October |
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| | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini born | | VA : | Sir James Thornhill born | | LT : | Thomas Traherne: Christian Ethicks | | PH : | Alliance between France and Poland | | PH : | War between Sweden and Denmark | | PH : | Charles II of England receives 500,000 crowns from Louis XIV and is able to prorogue Eng. Parliament for 15 months | | PH : | King Charles II of Spain attains majority | | LT : | Poems of Basho (pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa) help popularise Jap. haiku poetry | | RP : | Jacques Savary: Le Parfait Négociant | | RP : | Philipp Jacob Spener: Pia desideria | | RP : | Spinoza finishes his Ethics | | RP : | Thomas Traherne: Christian Ethics (posth.) | | ST : | Greenwich Observatory established | | ST : | Leibniz invents differential and integral calculus | | ST : | Isaac Newton: Opticks | | ST : | Finite velocity of light established by Olaus Romer | | VA : | Johannes Vermeer dies |
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| | | LT : | John Dryden: Aurengzebe | | PH : | Czar Alexis of Russia dies; succeeded by his son Feodor III | | PH : | Ahmed Kiuprili dies; succeeded as grand Vizier of Turkey by his brother-in-law Kara Mustafa | | RP : | "Declaration of the People of Virginia" by Nathaniel Bacon gains support for rebellion against authorities | | RP : | Pope Clement X dies; Benedetto Odescalchi becomes Pope Innocent XI | | RP : | Benjamin Thompson; New England's Crisis | | RP : | Roger Williams: George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes, anti-Quaker tract | | ST : | Thomas Sydenham: Obervationes medicae | | DL : | Influenza epidemic in England | | RP : | Legal protection of Sabbath observance in England |
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