Explore 131 historical events from 1670–1679.
Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who was known as the Regent, was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He is referred …
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (died 1723)
František Maxmilián Kaňka was a Czech architect. He was among the most important and most prolific Baroque architects in the Czech lands.
František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (died 1766)
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)
Marin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville was a French poet and novelist.
Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French author and poet (born 1600)
Tomás de Yepes or Hiepes was a Spanish Baroque painter in the Kingdom of Valencia. He worked as a painter of still life and bodegón—still life paintings depicting pantry items. He …
Tomás Yepes, Spanish painter (born 1595 or 1600)
Jijabai, was the mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Kingdom. She was a daughter of Lakhujirao Jadhav of Sindkhed Raja. He belonged to the lineage of Deva…
Jijabai, Dowager Queen, mother of Shivaji (born 1598)
Eberhard III ruled as Duke of Württemberg from 1628 until his death in 1674.
Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (born 1614)
Philippe de Champaigne was a Brabant-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of French Baroque painting. He was a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de…
Philippe de Champaigne, Belgian-French painter and educator (born 1602)
Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch physician and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting The Anatomy Les…
Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (born 1593)
Shivaji I was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji inherited a fiefdom from his father who served as a retainer for the Sultanate of Bijapur, which later fo…
Shivaji (pictured), who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crown
Shivaji I was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji inherited a fiefdom from his father who served as a retainer for the Sultanate of Bijapur, which later fo…
Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the firs
Louis Jolliet was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. In 1673, Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary, were the f…
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River
French people are the individuals who are identified with the country of France, or more broadly, a global sociolinguistic group that share a common connection through the French l…
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland was an English–German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first rose to prominence as a Royalist cavalry comm…
The Dutch fleet defeats an Anglo-French fleet under Prince Rupert in the battle of Texel.
Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg was Holy Roman Empress, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary, Queen of Bohemia, Archduchess consort of Austria etc. as the spouse of Josep…
Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1742)
Antoni de Literes, also known as Antonio de Literes or Antoni Literes Carrión, was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas. As with other national forms of baroque opera, Literes's stage w…
Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer (died 1747)
John Ker, born John Crawford in Crawfurdland, Ayrshire, was a Scots Presbyterian linked with Cameronian radicals who between 1705 and 1709 acted as a government informer against th…
John Ker, Scottish spy (died 1726)
Richard Mead, FRS, FRCP was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic imp…
Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (died 1754)
Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she e…
Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (born 1606)
Regnier de Graaf, original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff, was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproduc…
Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (born 1641)
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, known as the Lord Grey of Groby from 1614 to 1628, was an English nobleman and military leader. He was the eldest son of Sir John Grey and Elizabe…
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (born 1599)
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan, was a French soldier who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at …
Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French captain (born 1611)
The grand pensionary was the most important government official during the time of the Dutch Republic. In theory, a grand pensionary was merely a civil servant of the Estates of th…
Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by a mob in The Hague.
Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Ste…
Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician (died 1719)