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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s
Years: 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 - 1677 - 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682
Events
- First performance of Racine's tragedy, Phèdre
- Sarah Churchill marries John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
- Battle of Cassel, Philippe I of Orleans defeats William of Orange
- Mary II of England marries William of Orange
- English Statute of frauds is passed into law
- Battle of Landskrona
- Elias Ashmole gifts the collection that begins the Ashmolean Museum to Oxford University
- Francis Aungier is made the first Earl of Longford
- Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France
- Sir John Chardin returns to Europe from his travels in Persia
- Second London Baptist Confession written, was be published in 1689
- Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.
- War between Russia and Turkey.
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris (completed in 1698).
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa under the microscope.
- The Swedes defeat the Danes, at Rostock and at Landström.
- Population of Paris first exceeds 500,000, and ice cream becomes popular.
Year in topic
Births
- February 8 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (died 1756)
- Stanislaus I of Poland
Deaths
- Isaac Barrow, English mathematician
- Fabian von Fersen, Swedish soldier
- Matthew Locke, composer, in August
- Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher
- Duke William Louis of Württemberg
- Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton
- Mathieu Le Nain, French painter
