Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth |
Jan 5 |
Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg |
Jan 8 |
1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co) |
Jan 31 |
Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft |
Feb 21 |
Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland |
Mar 2 |
Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel |
Mar 4 |
John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England |
Jun 20 |
Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom |
Jun 22 |
Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II |
Jun 25 |
Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden |
Jun 28 |
Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburg army beats Sweden |
Aug 6 |
Russian Tsar Alexis bans foreign hair styles to those below the nobility |
Aug 10 |
King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
Aug 10 |
Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam |
Sep 6 |
Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships |
Sep 9 |
New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians |
Oct 4 |
Christian Huygens patents pocket watch |
Oct 29 |
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral. |
Nov 2 |
A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War. |
Nov 4 |
Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam |
Nov 11 |
Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function. |
Nov 14 |
Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine |
Nov 22 |
English king Charles II adjourns parliament |
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