Explore 174 historical events from 1670–1679.
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…
Second Tantrik Coronation of Shivaji.
Grave is a city and former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The former municipality had a population of 12,486 in 2021. Grave is a member of the Dutch Associati…
The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch army after a difficult siege.
Isaac Watts was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works …
Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (died 1748)
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)
Robert Arnauld d’Andilly was a French conseiller d’État, specialising in financial questions, in the court of Marie de' Medici. By the elegance of his language, he was among the ma…
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (born 1589)
Prince George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, German: Georg Friedrich Prinz von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Prinz von Nassau, Graf zu Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beil…
George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (born 1606)
Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Ma…
Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)
Hallgrímur Pétursson was an Icelandic poet and a minister at Hvalsneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður. Being one of the most prominent Icelandic poets, the Hallgrímskirkja in Reyk…
Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (born 1614)
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
The Franco-Dutch War, 1672 to 1678, was primarily fought by France and the Dutch Republic, with both sides backed at different times by a variety of allies. Related conflicts inclu…
Franco-Dutch War: French forces surrender the fortress town of Grave to the Dutch army after a three month siege.
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
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)