Explore 112 historical events from 1670–1679.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Cornelis de Witt was a Dutch States Navy officer and statesman. During the First Stadtholderless Period, De Witt was an influential member of the Dutch States Party, and was oppose…
Cornelis de Witt, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1623)
Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid E…
Johan de Witt, Dutch mathematician and politician (born 1625)
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)
Gian Gastone de' Medici was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany.
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1737)
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While …
Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)
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
Jacques Eugène d'Allonville de Louville was a French astronomer and mathematician. He also went by the name of Chevalier de Louville.
Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (died 1732)