1679


{{year nav|1679}}{{C17YearInTopicX}}Year 1679 (MDCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1679

January - June

• March 6 - In England, the Habeas Corpus Parliament (or First Exclusion Parliament) assembles for the first time.
• May 27 - The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is passed in England.
• June 1 - Battle of Drumclog: Scottish Covenanters defeat a small government force.
• June 22 - Battle of Bothwell Bridge: The Duke of Monmouth subdues the Covenanters.

July - December

• November 27 - A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards.

Undated

• European explorers discover Niagara Falls.
• The city of Duluth, Minnesota is founded.
• Aurangzeb reimposes jizya.

Births

{{Year in other calendars}}

• 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)

Deaths

• 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, English 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)
• 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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