Explore 44 historical events from 1670–1679.
Charles II was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North Amer
Samuel Cooper, sometimes spelt Samuel Cowper, was an English miniature painter. He was the younger brother of Alexander Cooper.
Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist (born 1609)
Thomas Blood was an Anglo-Irish army officer and self-styled colonel best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. Described in …
Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London
The Trunajaya Rebellion or Trunajaya War was a conflict in the 1670s led by the Madurese prince Trunajaya and Makassarese fighters against the Mataram Sultanate and the Dutch East …
Trunajaya rebellion: Dutch East India Company forces under Cornelis Speelman began an attack on Surabaya, on the island
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous exampl…
A royal charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land (present-day Canada)
Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, mathematician, linguist and poet. He has been called "the father of the Swedish skald art".
Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (born 1598)
Major-General Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, KG, KB, FRS was an English army officer and courtier who commanded Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War and for…
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (born 160
The siege of Cambrai took place from 20 March to 19 April 1677 during the 1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War; then part of the Spanish Netherlands, it was invested by a French army under t…
The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops
Frederick I was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the …
Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (died 1751)
John Law was a Scottish-French economist and financier. He rose to power in France where he created a novel financial scheme for French public finances known as Law's System with t…
John Law, Scottish economist (died 1729)
Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy of its leaders in religious af…
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog
Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow (Horrebov) was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. He worke…
Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (died 1764)
James Sharp, or Sharpe, was a minister in the Church of Scotland, or kirk, who served as Archbishop of St Andrews from 1661 to 1679. His support for Episcopalianism, or governance …
James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (born 1613)
Ferdinand Maria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. The Elector modernized the army and introduced Bavaria's first g…
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (born 1636)
Amaro Rodríguez-Felipe y Tejera Machado, also known as Amaro Pargo, was a Spanish privateer and merchant. He was one of the most well-known Spanish privateers during the Golden Age…
Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (died 1747)
The siege of Cambrai took place from 20 March to 19 April 1677 during the 1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War; then part of the Spanish Netherlands, it was invested by a French army under t…
The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops
Françoise Marie de Bourbon was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. At the age of 14, she married her fir…
Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, French noblewoman (died 1749)
Isaac Barrow was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for…
Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (born 1630)
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol was an English politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641, when he was raised to the House of Lords by a writ of acc…
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, Spanish-English politician, English Secretary of State (born 1612)
The Trunajaya Rebellion or Trunajaya War was a conflict in the 1670s led by the Madurese prince Trunajaya and Makassarese fighters against the Mataram Sultanate and the Dutch East …
Trunajaya rebellion: Dutch East India Company forces under Cornelis Speelman began an attack on Surabaya, on the island
The Battle of Öland was a naval battle between an allied Danish-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, off the east coast of Öland on 1 June 1676. The battle was a par…
Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79)
The Franco-Dutch War, 1672 to 1678, was primarily fought by France and the Dutch Republic, with both sides backed at different times by a variety of allies. Related conflicts inclu…
Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the B
Frederick I was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the …
Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (died 1751)
Jacopo Francesco Riccati was a Venetian mathematician and jurist from Venice, known for his widely influential work on solving differential equations. He is best known for having s…
Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (died 1754)
Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was a Dutch States Navy officer. His achievements with the Dutch navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars earned him the reputation as one of the greatest na…
Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (born 1607)
The Scanian War was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark–Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was fought from 1675 to 1679 mainly on Scanian soil, in the former…
Scanian War: The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland
Humphry Ditton was an English mathematician. He was the author of several influential works.
Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1715)
Francesco Scipione Maffei was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquiti…
Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (died 1755)
Stanisław Lubieniecki was a Polish Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer, and writer. He is the eponym of the lunar crater Lubiniezky.
Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (born 1623)
Jacques Marquette, sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and la…
Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (born 1637)
Gaspard Dughet, also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.
Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (born 1613)
John III Sobieski was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
John III Sobieski becomes king of Poland-Lithuania
The szlachta were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was the dominating social class i…
The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
John Graunt has been regarded as the founder of demography. Graunt was one of the first demographers, and perhaps the first epidemiologist, though by profession he was a haberdashe…
John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (born 1620)