5 events found for 1676
Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79)
Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the B
Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of…
Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.