...Date... AGE Event
1660/--/-- 0 *** Lafevre, Issac - Born France
1660/--/-- 0 - Charles II is restored to the English throne by Parliament.
1660/--/-- 0 - Dutch farmers (Boers) settle in South Africa.
1660/--/-- 0 - Dutch genre artist Gabriel Metsu paints The Sick Child.
1660/--/-- 0 - English public servant Samuel Pepys begins his Diary.
1660/--/-- 0 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gains control of Prussia from Poland.
1660/--/-- 0 - Louis XIV of France marries Marie Therese of Spain.
1660/--/-- 0 - Peter Stuyvesant founds the first permanent settlement in New Jersey at Bergen (Jersey City).
1660/--/-- 0 - The Bambara kingdom begins to flourish on the upper Niger about this time.
1660/--/-- 0 - The Peace of Copenhagen ends the war between Sweden and Denmark.
1660/--/-- 0 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 0 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 0 - Theaters are reopened in England; the period of Restoration drama begins.
1660/05/09 0 - Charles Stuart restored to throne of England as Charles II.
1661/--/-- 1 - Charles II orders that Cromwell's corpse be disinterred, hanged and beheaded.
1661/--/-- 1 - Chinese pirate Koxinga drives the Dutch from Formosa (Taiwan).
1661/--/-- 1 - Dutch-born artist Peter Lely is made court painter to Charles II.
1661/--/-- 1 - Emperor K'ang-hsi succeeds to the throne in China.
1661/--/-- 1 - The English acquire Bombay from Portugal.
1661/--/-- 1 - The first Bible printed in North America is John Elliot's translation into Algonquian.
1661/04/03 1 - Charles II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William
1662/--/-- 2 - Charles II grants a charter to the Royal Society of London for Natural Knowledge.
1662/--/-- 2 - France purchases Dunkerque from England.
1662/--/-- 2 - French architect Andre Le Notre designs the gardens for the Palace of Versailles.
1662/--/-- 2 - Robert Boyle develops his theory of gases (now known as Boyle's Law).
1662/--/-- 2 - The Portuguese surrender Tangier to England.
1662/--/-- 2 - The Theatre Royal is built in Drury Lane, London.
1663/--/-- 3 - Dutch genre artist Jan Steen paints the Woman Undressing.
1663/--/-- 3 - The Ottoman Turks invade Hungary.
1663/--/-- 3 - The first turnpike (toll) roads are established in England.
1664/--/-- 4 - England seizes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York.
1664/--/-- 4 - The Austrians defeat the Turks at Saint Gotthard and conclude a 20-year truce.
1664/--/-- 4 - The French East India Company is founded.
1664/--/-- 4 - The Trappists order of monks is founded at La Trappe in France.
1665/--/-- 5 - An outbreak of the Great Plague begins in London.
1665/--/-- 5 - Charles II succeeds Philip IV as king of Spain.
1665/--/-- 5 - Dutch genre artist Gerard Ter Borch paints the Flea Hunt.
1665/--/-- 5 - England and Portugal defeat Spain and establish Portuguese independence.
1665/--/-- 5 - Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes minister of finance for Louis XIV.
1665/--/-- 5 - Robert Hooke publishes his microscope observations in Micrographia.
1665/--/-- 5 - The Portuguese invade the Kingdom of Kongo and kill the monarch Antonio I.
1665/--/-- 5 - The Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665/--/-- 5 - The first horse race track in North America is constructed on Long Island.
1666/--/-- 6 - British scientist Isaac Newton completes his theory of fluxional calculus.
1666/--/-- 6 - Large sections of London are destroyed in the Great Fire.
1666/--/-- 6 - Moliere's play The Misanthrope is performed for the first time.
1666/--/-- 6 - Puritans from Connecticut settle in New Jersey.
1666/--/-- 6 - Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the messiah and founds a Jewish sect.
1666/--/-- 6 - The Alawite dynasty assumes power in Morocco.
1666/--/-- 6 - The French join the Dutch in the war with England.
1667/--/-- 7 - English poet John Milton writes Paradise Lost.
1667/--/-- 7 - Japanese poet Basho begins to compose his haiku poetry.
1667/--/-- 7 - Louis XIV begins the War of Devolution and captures the Spanish Netherlands.
1667/--/-- 7 - Louis XIV sponsors the first official Salon art exhibition at the Louvre.
1667/--/-- 7 - Mexico City Cathedral is completed.
1667/--/-- 7 - Suleiman succeeds Abbas II as shah of Persia (Iran).
1667/--/-- 7 - The Dutch acquire Suriname from the British in exchange for Manhattan.
1667/--/-- 7 - The Dutch destroy the English fleet at anchor in the Medway.
1667/--/-- 7 - The Peace of Breda ends the war between the English, French and Dutch.
1667/--/-- 7 - The building of the Paris Observatory is begun.
1668/--/-- 8 - A Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic is formed against France.
1668/--/-- 8 - By the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle France gives up its conquests but keeps Flanders.
1668/--/-- 8 - By the Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes the independence of Portugal.
1668/--/-- 8 - French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine begins publishing his Fables.
1668/--/-- 8 - Jacques Marquette founds the first settlement in Michigan at Sault Saint Marie.
1668/--/-- 8 - King John II of Poland abdicates; he is succeeded by Michael Wisniowiecki.
1669/--/-- 9 - French courtesan Madame de Sevigne begins writing her Letters.
1669/--/-- 9 - German Alchemist Hennig Brandt makes phosphorus for the first time.
1669/--/-- 9 - Louis Le Vau begins the expansion of the Palace of Versailles for Louis XIV.
1669/--/-- 9 - Mount Etna erupts in Italy, killing 20,000.
1669/--/-- 9 - Venice surrenders Crete to the Ottoman Turks.
1670/--/-- 10 - English architect Sir Christopher Wren begins rebuilding Saint Paul's Cathedral.
1670/--/-- 10 - The Don Cossacks under Stenka Razin rebel against Russian rule.
1670/--/-- 10 - The English establish a settlement at Charles Towne (Charleston), South Carolina.
1670/--/-- 10 - The Hudson's Bay Company is founded.
1671/--/-- 11 - Buccaneers under Sir Henry Morgan capture the city of Panama.
1672/--/-- 12 - Astronomer Giovanni Cassini becomes the first director of the Paris Observatory.
1672/--/-- 12 - Grenades become an important weapon; the French army forms grenadier companies.
1672/--/-- 12 - Jean Baptiste Lully produces the first French operas.
1672/--/-- 12 - Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban founds the French army engineering corps.
1672/--/-- 12 - The French and British declare war on the Dutch.
1672/--/-- 12 - William III prince of Orange leads the defense of the Netherlands.
1673/--/-- 13 - Leibniz begins to develop his theories of differential and integral calculus.
1673/--/-- 13 - Marquette and Jolliet explore the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River.
1673/--/-- 13 - The Polish army under John Sobieski defeats the Turks at Cochim (Khotin).
1673/--/-- 13 - The Test Act excludes Catholics from public office in England.
1673/--/-- 13 - The first mail service in North America is established between New York and Boston.
1674/--/-- 14 - Early American artist the Freake limner paints portraits of the Freake family.
1674/--/-- 14 - Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France.
1674/--/-- 14 - John Sobieski is elected as King John III of Poland.
1674/--/-- 14 - Maratha leader Sivaji establishes a kingdom in Maharashtra, India.
1674/--/-- 14 - The Dutch under William III make peace with England.
1674/--/-- 14 - The Treaty of Westminster establishes New Yorkers as British subjects.
1675/--/-- 15 - Conflict begins between the Indians under King Philip and New England settlers .
1675/--/-- 15 - Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza finishes his Ethics.
1675/--/-- 15 - English dramatist William Wycherley writes The Country Wife.
1675/--/-- 15 - King Philip's War (Indian) MASS, RI
1675/--/-- 15 - The Prussians under Frederick William defeat the Swedes at Fehrbellin.
1675/--/-- 15 - The Royal Observatory is established at Greenwich.
1676/--/-- 16 - Bacon's Rebellion, VA
1676/--/-- 16 - English playwright Sir George Etherege writes Man of Mode.
1676/--/-- 16 - German astronomer Ole Romer discovers the velocity of light.
1676/--/-- 16 - Indians in New England are subdued after the year-long King Philip's War.
1676/--/-- 16 - The Sikhs under Guru Gobind Singh revolt against Mogul rule in India.
1676/--/-- 16 - The Swedes defeat the Danes at the Battle of Lunden.
1677/--/-- 17 - Charles II appoints Henry Purcell as court composer.
1677/--/-- 17 - English author John Dryden writes the tragedy All for Love.
1677/--/-- 17 - French dramatist Jean Racine writes the tragedy of Phedre.
1677/--/-- 17 - William III prince of Orange marries Mary, daughter of the Duke of York.
1678/--/-- 18 - Charles Le Brun designs the Hall of Mirrors for the Palace of Versailles.
1678/--/-- 18 - Comtesse de La Fayette writes the novel La Princesse de Cleves.
1678/--/-- 18 - French explorer Louis Hennepin discovers Niagara Falls.
1678/--/-- 18 - John Bunyan publishes the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress.
1678/--/-- 18 - The Hungarians rebel against Habsburg rule.
1678/--/-- 18 - The Treaty of Nijmegen establishes peace between France, the Dutch and Spain.
1679/--/-- 19 - The English Parliament passes the Habeas Corpus Act.
1680/--/-- 20 - Antonio Stradivari opens his violin workshop in Cremona, Italy.
1680/--/-- 20 - Sadler's Wells theater opens in London.
1680/--/-- 20 - The Comedie Francaise is founded in Paris.
1681/--/-- 21 - Aurangzeb suppresses a Rajput revolt and campaigns against Hindu kingdoms in India.
1681/--/-- 21 - English Quaker William Penn is granted the Providence of Pennsylvania.
1681/--/-- 21 - John Dryden publishes his satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel.
1681/--/-- 21 - The dodo, a large flightless bird, becomes extinct.
1682/--/-- 22 - Edmund Halley observes the Great Comet, which is later named for him.
1682/--/-- 22 - French explorer La Salle navigates the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
1682/--/-- 22 - Peter the Great succeeds Fyodor III as tsar of Russia.
1682/--/-- 22 - The Palace of Versailles becomes the French royal residence.
1682/--/-- 22 - The Spanish establish the first settlement in Texas at Yselta (near El Paso).
1682/--/-- 22 - William Penn founds the city of Philadelphia.
1683/--/-- 23 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi conquers Formosa (Taiwan).
1683/--/-- 23 - Louis XIV secretly marries Madame de Maintenon .
1683/--/-- 23 - The Turks lay siege to Vienna but are defeated by Imperial and Polish forces.
1683/--/-- 23 - Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope drawings of Protozoa are published.
1683/--/-- 23 - William Penn makes a peace treaty with the Delaware Indians.
1684/--/-- 24 - England abandons Tangier to the Moroccans.
1684/--/-- 24 - La Salle claims Louisiana, a region from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, for France.
1684/--/-- 24 - The Dutch whaling fleet at Spitsbergen (Svalbard) numbers 246 vessels.
1685/--/-- 25 - Charles II of England dies; he is succeeded by his brother James II.
1685/--/-- 25 - Increase Mather becomes president of Harvard College.
1685/--/-- 25 - Japanese Bunraku (puppet theater) is performed in Osaka about this time.
1685/--/-- 25 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and exiles thousands of French Huguenots.
1685/--/-- 25 - Rice cultivation begins in North America.
1685/--/-- 25 - The Duke of Monmouth rebels against James II; he is captured and executed.
1685/--/-- 25 - The Huguenots begin a silk industry in London and settle in the American colonies.
1685/04/03 25 - James II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William Sa
1686/--/-- 26 - Henri de Tonty establishes the first European settlement in Arkansas.
1686/--/-- 26 - The League of Augsburg is formed as a coalition of European states against France.
1686/--/-- 26 - The Turks are expelled from Budapest by a Habsburg army.
1687/--/-- 27 *** Lafevre, Abraham [Son] - Born to Lafevre, Issac and Boudonock, Janneken
1687/--/-- 27 - English actress and royal mistress Nell Gwynne dies.
1687/--/-- 27 - Isaac Newton publishes Principia, establishing his laws of motion and gravity.
1687/--/-- 27 - James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence suspending the laws against Catholics.
1687/--/-- 27 - The city of Lima, Peru, is virtually destroyed by an earthquake.
1688/--/-- 28 - English Protestants demand a Glorious Revolution against Catholicism.
1688/--/-- 28 - Insurance underwriters begin meeting at Lloyd's Coffee House in London.
1688/--/-- 28 - Louis XIV declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and captures Heidelberg.
1688/--/-- 28 - William of Orange is invited to England as king; James II escapes to France.
1689/--/-- 29 - British composer Henry Purcell writes the opera Dido and Aeneas.
1689/--/-- 29 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
1689/--/-- 29 - England and the Netherlands join the Grand Alliance against France.
1689/--/-- 29 - French and Indian allies attack English colonists during King William's War.
1689/--/-- 29 - William and Mary are proclaimed king and queen of England.
1689/01/08 29 - James II declared to have abdicated by Parliament.
1689/02/03 29 - William III and Mary II proclaimed King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Irel
1689/04/01 29 - William III and Mary II crowned King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
1690/--/-- 30 - Benjamin Harris publishes the first American newspaper in Boston.
1690/--/-- 30 - Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora publishes The Misadventures of Alfonso Ramirez.
1690/--/-- 30 - Jose Churriguera becomes court architect to Philip V of Spain.
1690/--/-- 30 - Philosopher John Locke publishes his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1690/--/-- 30 - Spain joins the War of Grand Alliance against France.
1690/--/-- 30 - The French defeat the English fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head.
1690/--/-- 30 - William III defeats James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1691/--/-- 31 - Juana Ines de la Cruz writes a defense of women's rights Reply to Sister Philotea.
1691/--/-- 31 - The Irish rebellion ends with the Treaty of Limerick.
1692/--/-- 32 - Port Royal in Jamaica is destroyed by an earthquake; the city of Kingston is founded.
1692/--/-- 32 - Salem Witchcraft Trials, MASS
1692/--/-- 32 - The Macdonald clan are massacred by the Campbells at Glencoe in Scotland.
1692/--/-- 32 - The first English patent for a wallpaper design is issued.
1692/--/-- 32 - Witchcraft trials are held at Salem in New England.
1693/--/-- 33 - James Blair founds William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1693/--/-- 33 - John Ray publishes the first major classification of animals.
1694/--/-- 34 - The Academie Francaise introduces the first French national dictionary.
1694/--/-- 34 - The Bank of England is founded.
1694/12/28 34 - William III rules as sole King.
1696/--/-- 36 - Russia annexes the Kamchatka Peninsula.
1696/--/-- 36 - Russian tsar Peter the Great captures Azov from the Turks.
1696/--/-- 36 - The Chinese under K'ang-hsi defeat the Dzungar Mongol chieftain Galdan.
1696/--/-- 36 - William III campaigns in Holland against the French.
1697/--/-- 37 - Augustus II elector of Saxony becomes king of Poland.
1697/--/-- 37 - French poet Charles Perrault publishes the Tales From Mother Goose.
1697/--/-- 37 - Russian tsar Peter the Great sets out to study the European way of life.
1697/--/-- 37 - Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is produced in London.
1697/--/-- 37 - The Habsburg army under Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta.
1697/--/-- 37 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698/--/-- 38 - Calcutta is founded by the British East India Company.
1698/--/-- 38 - Russian tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.
1698/--/-- 38 - Thomas Savery invents a water pump -- the first practical application of steam power.
1699/--/-- 39 - Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice sign the Peace of Karlowitz treaty with Turkey.
1699/--/-- 39 - Francis Moore's Vox stellarum, known as Old Moore's Almanac, is published.
1699/--/-- 39 - Japanese master ceramicist Ogata Kenzan opens his kiln at Narutaki.
1699/--/-- 39 - Peter the Great changes the Russian New Year from September 1 to January 1.
1699/--/-- 39 - William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
1700/--/-- 40 - Charles II of Spain dies, ending the Spanish Habsburg line.
1700/--/-- 40 - Johann Denner invents the clarinet about this time.
1700/--/-- 40 - Kabuki Theater develops in Japan about this time.
1700/--/-- 40 - Peter the Great's Russian army is defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva.
1700/--/-- 40 - Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, becomes the first Bourbon king of Spain.
1700/--/-- 40 - The Great Northern War begins; Denmark, Poland and Russia attack Sweden.
1700/--/-- 40 - The Swedes under Charles XII defeat the Danes.
1700/--/-- 40 - The rococo style is introduced into French architecture about this time.
1700/--/-- 40 - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is produced in London.
1701/--/-- 41 - Captain Kidd is hanged for piracy.
1701/--/-- 41 - Frederick I Elector of Saxony proclaims himself the first king of Prussia.
1701/--/-- 41 - French artist Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of Louis XIV.
1701/--/-- 41 - The Act of Settlement in Britain establishes the Hanoverian succession to the throne.
1701/--/-- 41 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1701/--/-- 41 - Yale University is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
1702/--/-- 42 - Anne succeeds William III as queen of England.
1702/--/-- 42 - England declares war on France and Spain.
1702/--/-- 42 - French fur traders found Vincennes, the first permanent European settlement in Indiana.
1702/--/-- 42 - Queen Anne's War begins in America; the British attack Saint Augustine in Florida.
1702/--/-- 42 - The Camisards (French Huguenots) rebel in southern France.
1702/--/-- 42 - The French under the duc de Villars defeat the Grand Alliance at Friedlingen.
1702/--/-- 42 - The first daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published in London.
1702/--/-- 42 - The royal colony of New Jersey is founded in America.
1702/04/03 42 - Anne crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1703/--/-- 43 *** Lafevre, Issac - Died New Jersey
1703/--/-- 43 - Archduke Charles of Austria claims the Spanish throne for the Habsburgs.
1703/--/-- 43 - Buckingham Palace is rebuilt for the Duke of Buckingham in London.
1703/--/-- 43 - Peter the Great lays the foundations of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
In 1660 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1660 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
In 1660 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1660 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1660 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1660 War Making was by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
Calvary
gun
Artillery
By 1703 War Making by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
had been discontinued.
In 1660 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:56:59