Explore 174 historical events from 1670–1679.
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)
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist, instrument maker and teacher, who was the most celebrated of a fa…
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, French flute player and composer (died 1763)
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.
Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir, also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters. He twice served as voivode of Moldavia. During his second term…
Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian geographer, historian, and philosopher (died 1723)
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)
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)
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)
Christoffer Gabel was a Danish statesman. He was the father of Vice Governor-general of Norway, Frederik Gabel.
Christoffer Gabel, German-Danish accountant and politician (born 1617)
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh was an English statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1672 when he was created Baron Clifford. He was one of five l…
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1630)
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.
John III Sobieski was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
Jan Sobieski, Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown, begins his successful military campaign against the Tartars following…
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)
Peter I was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. Peter, a…
Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725)
Francesco Antonio Bonporti was an Italian priest and amateur composer.
Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (died 1749)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the Physica sacra in four volumes, a commentary on the Bible that prese…
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (died 1733)
Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist and composer. He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, and an Ouverture for harpsichord.
Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (died 1703)
Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack statesman, diplomat and member of Cossack starshyna. Described as the first Ukrainian political emigrant, he served as the hetman …
Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian-Romanian diplomat (died 1742)
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)
Marie of the Incarnation was a French Ursuline nun from Quebec City. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread …
Marie of the Incarnation, French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Ursulines of Quebec (born 1599)
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)
Sir John Trevor III was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1672.
John Trevor, Welsh politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1626)
Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet, of Roydon Hall near East Peckham in Kent, was an English historian and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and…
Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (born 1597)
Francis Willughby FRS was an English ornithologist, ichthyologist and mathematician, and an early student of linguistics and games.
Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (born 1635)