Explore 205 historical events from 1680–1689.
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 VI was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the thron…
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1740)
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the …
Domenico Scarlatti, Italian harpsichord player and composer (died 1757)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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…
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)
Christoph Ignaz Abele, von und zu Lilienberg, son of a Swabian family, was an Austrian jurist and court official.
Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (born 1628)
Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville et de Viroflay was a French statesman.
Michel Le Tellier, French lawyer and politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1603)
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)
Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Ruben…
Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (died 1721)
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall, one of the leading commanders under Frederick the Great.
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (died 1757)
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)