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1690

February 3 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.

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1688

March - The first recorded human visitors to Christmas Island are two memebers of the crew sailing with William Dampier of the British ship Cygnet; they found it uninhabited. - Australia

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1687

March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.

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1686

The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from the Ottoman Turkish rule that leads to the end of Turkish rule in Hungary during the subsequent years.

Turkey, Hungary

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1685

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June 20 - Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland declares himself King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland, after already forming his own army and campaigning against his uncle.

July 6 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Battle of Sedgemoor between the armies of King James II of England and rebel forces under Monmouth. Monmouth's army is defeated and the Duke himself is captured shortly after the battle.

July 15 - The Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, London

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1684

England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over

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1683

The Battle of Vienna took place in the night between 11 September 1683 and 12 September 1683, finishing about at 5 p.m., and was the first large-scale battle of the Habsburg-Ottoman Wars, yet with the most far-reaching consequences.

Vienna,Austria

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1682

Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia.

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1681

The last Dodo is killed

The Republic of Mauritius

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1680

May - an eruption occurs at the volcano Krakatoa, probably on a relatively small scale.

July 8 - The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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1679

May 27 Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest and imprisonment) passes in UK

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1678-October 17 - British magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London.


London, England

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1677

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May 31 - Danish ships clash with Swedish ships under Niels Iuel between Femern and Warnemunde - Danish defeat the Swedish and capture number of ships. Off the Coast of Germany.

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1676

In France, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning his father and brothers. Case also scares the king Louis XIV to start a series of investigations about possible poisonings and witchcraft, later called the Poison affair

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1675

August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins

England

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1674

England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York

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1672

Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland is slaughtered by a mob in The Hague.

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1617

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May 9 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He would later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II. England.

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1670

In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms

England

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1669

Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin

Italy

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1668

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February 13 Lisbon - Peace Treaty between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England where it is recognized the legitimity of the Portuguese monarch. Portugal yields Ceuta to Spain.

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1667

Louis XIV of France abolishes the Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates Gabriel-Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of Paris.

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1666

September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.

September 5 - Great Fire of London ends.

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1665

London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die.

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1664

The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

Hungary

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1663

March 24 - King Charles II of England issues the Charter of Carolina, establishing the Province of Carolina and dividing it between eight Lords Proprietors

England

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1662

February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege, ending a 38 year span of Dutch rule.

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1661

George Monck’s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards (which later becomes Coldstream Guards)

England

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1660

January 1 - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. Samuel Pepys began his diary.

England

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1657

January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London. (If they just would have waited a year, it wouldn't have mattered.)

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1664

March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England.

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(You used 1664 instead of 1654)

1654

June 3 - Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims

France

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1653

New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.

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1652

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April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. South Africa.

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1651

The biggest battle of the 17th century, Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles and Ukrainians, won by Poles.

Ukraine

quick question, why do you put a sun between the year and the event for every post you made here?

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1648

The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Treaty of Munster, ending the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish Empire recognizes the Dutch Republic of United Netherlands as a sovereign state, (governed by the House of Orange-Nassau and the Estates General) which was before a province of the Spanish Empire. The Netherlands becomes the first European power with a republican form of government.

Germany

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1647

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March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

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1646

Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War

Scotland, Ireland, England

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1645

January 10 - Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud executed for treason on Tower Hill, London. His support for Charles, absolute monarchy, and his persecuting of opposing views led to his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.

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1644

February to August - Explorer Abel Tasman's second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia.

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1643

January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga
February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.

Bonus

January 4 - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist is born