Explore 160 historical events from 1680–1689.
The Morean war, also known as the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, was fought between 1684–1699 as part of the wider conflict known as the "Great Turkish War", between the Republic of V…
Morean War: the Battle of Kalamata ends in a Venetian victory over the forces of the Ottoman Empire under the Kapudan…
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain…
John Gay, English poet and playwright (died 1732)
Brook Taylor was an English mathematician and barrister best known for several results in mathematical analysis. Taylor's most famous developments are Taylor's theorem and the Tay…
Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (died 1731)
Giuseppe Matteo Alberti was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.
Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)
Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista, was a prominent Spanish military and political figure of Criollo descent. He held the position of a knight in the Order o…
Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, President of the First Government Junta of Chile (died 1811)
Charles II was Elector Palatine from 1680 to 1685. He was the son of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine of the House of Wittelsbach, and Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel.
Charles II, German elector palatine (born 1651)
Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet was a British Army officer and politician. As a junior officer he fought at the Battle of Schellenberg and at the Battle of Blenheim duri…
Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (died 1768)
Bajo Pivljanin, born Dragojlo Nikolić, was a Serbian hajduk commander mostly active in the Ottoman territories of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia. Born in Piva, a Serbian Herzego…
Bajo Pivljanin (born 1630)
General James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, Duke of Buccleuch was an English Army officer and courtier. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the …
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-born English general and claimant to the throne, executed (born 1649)
Ivan Ančić was a Croatian Franciscan priest and religious writer in the Catholic Revival tradition. Ančić, a native of Lipa in the region of Duvno, joined the Franciscan order in B…
Ivan Ančić, Croatian Franciscan and religious writer (born 1624)
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington was an English politician and army officer. A supporter of the Royalists during the English Civil War, he joined the royal family in exile befor…
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department…
Sir Leoline Jenkins was a Welsh academic, diplomat involved in the negotiation of international treaties, jurist and politician. He was a clerical lawyer who served as Judge of the…
Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1625)
William Carpenter was a co-founder of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, born about 1610, probably in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. He died September 7,…
William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (born 1605)
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.
Succeeding Charles II, his late brother, James II was crowned King of England, becoming last Catholic to hold the title
James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Cat…
Troops loyal to James II of England defeated those of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth at the Battle of Sedgemoor,…
Baroness Françoise Charlotte Amable d'Aubigné-Maintenon, Duchess of Noailles was a French aristocrat, the wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles. She was the niec…
Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (died 1739)
Francesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.
Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)
Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet was a Scottish military officer and politician whose life followed an 18th-century pattern. He fought in support of the Revolution Settlement and the …
Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, British politician (died 1746)
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one …
The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court
Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain…
Emperor Leopold I and French king Louis XIV agree to an armistice in the truce of Ratisbon.
Johann Gottfried Walther was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.
Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (died 1748)
John Nevison, also known as William Nevison or Nevinson, was one of England's most notorious highwaymen, a gentleman rogue supposedly nicknamed Swift Nick by King Charles II after …
John Nevison, English criminal (born 1639)
Edme Mariotte was a French physicist and priest (abbé). He is particularly well known for formulating Boyle's law independently of Robert Boyle. Mariotte is also credited with desi…
Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (born 1620)
Peregrine Palmer was an English politician who sat as MP for Bridgwater on 7 December 1669.
Peregrine Palmer, English politician (born 1605)