1670 to 1679

1670

x - Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France to restore Roman Catholicism to
x - Hudson's Bay Company founded
x - Clement X + becomes pope ?+ [u.1676] [re.List of Popes]

1673

x - Mail is delivered on a route between New York and Boston.
x - |ENGLAND| The Test Act is passed, allowing only members of the Anglican Church to hold public office.
x - Moliere dies at age 51.
x - Leeuwenhoeck publishes his first article in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

1675

x - King Philip's War

1676

x - Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer observes that light moves at a finite speed by studying Jupiter's moons.
x - Innocent XI + becomes pope ?+ [u.1689] [re.List of Popes]
x - |Russia +| Feodor III + becomes tsar. [u.1682] [re.List of Tsars]

1679

x - passes the Habeas Corpuss act guaranteeing people protection from arbitrary arrest.