1679

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s 1650s 1660s – 1670s – 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1676 1677 1678 – 1679 – 1680 1681 1682

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January 24 – King Charles II of England dissolves the "Cavalier Parliament".
March 6–May 27 – In England, the "Habeas Corpus Parliament" (or "First Exclusion Parliament") meets.
May 27 – The Habeas Corpus Act is passed in England.
June 1 – Battle of Drumclog: Scottish Covenanters defeat a small government force.
June 4 – Armenia earthquake: A tremor with a magnitude of 7.0 takes place in the Yerevan region of the Persian Empire.
June 22 – Battle of Bothwell Bridge: Royal forces led by the Duke of Monmouth and John Graham of Claverhouse subdue the Scottish Covenanters.

August 7 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes.
November 27 – A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards.

European explorers discover Niagara Falls.
The city of Duluth, Minnesota, is founded.
The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb reimposes jizya.
Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi in Hérault, France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel, is excavated by Pierre-Paul Riquet (165 m, concrete lined).^[1]

January 24 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
March 18 – Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1749)
May 29 – Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1731)
August 22 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
October 13 – Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1740)
October 16 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer (d. 1745)
October 18 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)
date unknown
- Firmin Abauzit, French scientist (d. 1767)
- James Erskine, Lord Grange, Scottish judge (d. 1754)

January 1 – Jan Steen, Dutch painter
March 16 – John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
March 26 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
May 3 – James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
May 26 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
June 15 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
July 11 – William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
August 6 – John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
August 24 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
September 17 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
October 12 – William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
October 26 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
November 19 – Roger Conant Massachusetts governor, founder of Salem, Massachusetts (b. 1592)
December 4 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
December 31 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
date unknown – Lady Anne Finch Conway, English philosopher (b. 1631)

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