Born in 1680:
Died in 1680:
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Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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English poet Samuel Butler.
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English admiral Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory.
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English admiral and founder of Carolina and New Jersey Sir George
Carteret.
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English poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
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English painter Robert Streeter.
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English folklorist Nathaniel Wanley.
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English philosopher Joseph Glanvill.
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English Civil War figure Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles.
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English Platonist philosopher Ralph Cudworth.
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English Puritan theologian Stephen Charnock.
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German painter Ludwig von Siegen.
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Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, granddaughter of James I, abbess
of Herford in Wesphalia and corespondent wit Rene Descartes.
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French composer François Roberday.
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French epigrammist Duc François de la Rochefoucauld.
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Flemish religious reformer Antoinette Bourignon.
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Austrian composer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.
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Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.
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Italian composer Lelio Colista.
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Italian composer Marco Uccellini.
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Italian composer Antonio Sartorio.
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Italian composer Pietro Simone Agostini.
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German Jesuit priest and mathematician, geographer, astronomer,
ethnographer, and physicist Athanasius Kircher.
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Danish anatomist and mathematician Thomas Bartholin.
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Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam.
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Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol.
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Dutch painter Frans Post.
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Dutch painter Dircksz Santvoort.
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Dutch painter Sir Peter Lely, in London.
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(approx). Dutch painter Hendrik Dankers.
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Irish adventurer Thomas Blood, who had attempted to steal the
English crown jewels in 1671, but charmed Charles II out of executing
him.
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Former French Minister of Finance Nicolas Fouquet.
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Former Japanese emperor Go-Mi-no-o.
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Tokugawa Ietsuna, shogun of Japan. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi succeeds
him.
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Johann Friedrich, Duke of Hannover. Ernst August succeeds him.
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Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony.
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Maratha maharaja Shivaji Bhosle. His son Rajaram succeeds him.
Events of 1680:
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The Duke of York grants the western half of his personal domain
in the New World, West New Jersey, to a coalition of people including
William Penn.
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Swedish King Karl XI marries Princess Ulrika of Denmark, founds
a naval base, and sets up a council that will give him absolute power two
years later.
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The third part of Samuel Buter's satirical poem Hudibras is
published.
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Colonists in Maryland run out of food, and learn to dig up oysters
from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. Rough life.
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Virginia's House of Burgesses passes an ordinance limiting the allowable
types of fishing.
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John Bunyan publishes his moral allegory The Life and Death of
Mr Badman.
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Matsuo Munefusa moves out of Edo, building a hut
in the Fukagawa district. A collection of poems by his students,
Tosei
Montei Dokugin Nijikkasen, appears.
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz develops a form of calculus but
does not publish it.
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Giovanni Borelli proves that flapping wings is an impossible
mode of human-powered flight.
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Stjepan Gradic publishes De loco Galilaei about Galileo's
paradox of the bowl.
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Nathaniel Lee's tragedy Lucius Junius Brutus premeires.
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Sir Christopher Wren is made president of the Royal Society.
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Magdeburg is transferred from Saxony to Brandenburg-Prussia.
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Pueblo Indians centered around Red Willow Pueblo rise
up and drive the Spanish out of New Mexico.
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Revolts against Emperor Leopold I break out
all
over Bohemia and Slovakia in response to the Emperor's repression
of Calvinism.
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An earthquake shakes the Leeward Islands; Jamestown, Nevis
is destroyed.
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In Scotland, the Campbell and Sinclair clans fight over the Girnigoe
region. At the Battle of Altimarlach, the Campbells defeat
the Sinclairs (Uilt na Muirleach or "The Burn of the Thieves")
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John Flamsteed produces a star catalogue. Among its curiousities is a
sixth-magnitude star near 3 Cassiopeiae that is later classified as erroneous.
That is, until 20th Century radio astronomers discover Cassiopeia A (3C
461), the strongest radio source in the sky ouside the solar system.
This is the remnant of a supernova that exploded in 1667 but which
no-one noticed at the time.
1679 - 1680 - 1681
How They Were Made - 17th Century