Today in History for Year 1679

Months in Year 1679: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 24th - King Charles II disbands English parliament
Jan 31st - Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris
Feb 5th - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
Apr 3rd - Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
May 27th - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
Jun 1st - The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
Jun 22nd - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish
Jul 2nd - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
Jul 12th - Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
Sep 18th - New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony
Oct 23rd - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
Nov 3rd - Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
Nov 15th - English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
Dec 27th - Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 21 of 21

Jan 5th - Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
Jan 19th - Girolamo Chiti, composer
Jan 24th - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher
Jan 27th - Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter
Feb 14th - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
Feb 24th - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
Mar 18th - Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
May 12th - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
May 14th - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
Jun 1st - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
Aug 22nd - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
Sep 28th - Mihael Omerza, composer
Oct 16th - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
Oct 18th - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
Oct 20th - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer
Nov 10th - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
Nov 11th - Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist
Nov 13th - Thomas-Philippe d'alsace et de Boussu, South Netherland cardinal
Nov 14th - Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
Dec 10th - Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders
Dec 24th - Domenico Natale Sarro, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 9th - Werner Fabricius, composer, dies at 45
Jan 14th - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
Feb 3rd - Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53
Feb 5th - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91
Mar 16th - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
Mar 26th - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
Mar 27th - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
Apr 17th - John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53
Apr 18th - Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
May 1st - Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43
May 3rd - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
May 26th - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
Jun 3rd - Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
Jun 15th - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
Jun 27th - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68
Jul 8th - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies
Jul 11th - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
Aug 6th - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
Aug 20th - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
Aug 24th - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
Sep 17th - Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands, dies at 50
Sep 20th - Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
Oct 12th - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
Oct 24th - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66
Oct 26th - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
Nov 30th - Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
Dec 4th - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
Dec 17th - Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
Dec 20th - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
Dec 26th - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53
Dec 31st - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)