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| 1670, Jan.: | Amsterdam is the first city to be illuminated by some 1,800 street lanterns. |  |
| 1670, Feb. 19: | The Danish Frederick III dies at Copenhagen and is succeeded by Christian V. | |
| 1670, Apr. 29: | Pope Clement X is elected. | |
| 1670, Jun. 1: | Louis XIV and Charles II sign the secret, anti-Dutch, Treaty of Dover. | |
| 1670, Jul. 16: | Van den Enden pays his maid Aeltie Lucas with an IOU from Jan Lievens. | |
| 1670, Jul. 25: | The Count of Monterey is appointed Governor of the Spanish Netherlands. | |
| 1670, Nov. 15: | Johan Amos Comenius dies at Naarden. | |
| 1670, Nov. 20: | The physician and philosopher Bernard Mandeville is baptized at Rotterdam. | |
Theodoor Kerckrinck, Spicilegium anatomicum, Amsterdam: Andreas Frisius.
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[Benedictus de Spinoza], Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Hamburg
[Amsterdam]: Hendrik Künrath [Jan Rieuwertsz]. |
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N.N., Poetae Heautontumorumenoi, of penne-Krijgh, tusschen de Reformateurs
der Poezy en E.B.I.S.K.A., s.l. [Amsterdam]: Willem de Lange. |
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| 1671, Feb. 17: | The philosopher Benedictus de Spinoza asks his friends in a letter not to publish a Dutch translation of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. |  |
| 1671, Feb. 27: | Clara Maria van den Enden marries Theodoor Kerckrinck at Amsterdam. | |
| 1671, Spring: | Johannes Antonides van der Goes writes a poem dedicated to Van den Enden, on the occasion of his appointment as personal physician to Louis XIV. | |
| 1671, Nov.: | The Dutch States General passes protectionist measures against France. | |
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Antonides van der Goes, De Ystroom, Amsterdam: Pieter Arentsz. |
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Theodoor Kerckrinck, Currum triumphalem antimonii Basilii Valentini,
Amsterdam: Andreas Frisius. |
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Theodoor Kerckrinck, Anthropogeniæ ichnographia, Amsterdam:
Andreas Frisius. |
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Jan Luyken, Duytse lier, Amsterdam: Jacobus Wagenaar. |
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hypothesis Physica Nova, Mainz: Kücherlerus.
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| 1672, Feb.: | The former director-general of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, dies at New York. |  |
| 1672, Feb. 2: | The printshop of Johan Blaeu is burned to the ground, notwithstanding the efforts of Jan van der Heijden to extinguish the fire with his newly invented firehoses. | |
| 1672, Feb. 24: | William III of Nassau, Prince of Orange, is made captain and Admiral-General by the States General. | |
| 1672, Mar. 23: | Without warning, the English navy attacks a Dutch convoy, thus starting the Third Anglo-Dutch War. | |
| 1672, Mar. 28: | England declares war on the Dutch Republic. | |
| 1672, Apr. 6: | Louis XIV declares war on the Dutch Republic. | |
| 1672, May 18: | The Prince-Bishop of Münster declares war on the Dutch Republic. | |
| 1672, Jun.: | Grol, Arnhem, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Zwolle and Kampen are conquered by French and Munsterite troops. | |
| 1672, Jun. 7: | A Dutch fleet under De Ruyter fights with an Anglo-French fleet under the Duke of York and the Count d'Estrees at the undecided Battle of Solebay. |  |
| 1672, Jun. 21: | Johan de Witt is wounded as an attempt on his life fails. | |
| 1672, Jun. 26: | The States General decide to send Pieter de Groot to negotiate a peace with the French, but this inflames public indignation and causes Orangist riots to break out in Schiedam, Rotterdam, Gouda and Delft. | |
| 1672, Jul.: | Pieter de Groot flees to Antwerp. | |
| 1672, Jul. 2: | William III of Nassau, Prince of Orange, is made Stadholder by the province of Zeeland and the next day by the province of Holland. | |
| 1672, Jul. 24: | Cornelius de Witt, brother of Pensionary Johan de Witt, is arrested and imprisoned in The Hague. | |
| 1672, Aug. 4: | Johan de Witt resigns from office. | |
| 1672, Aug. 20: | When Johan de Witt visits his brother Cornelius de Witt in prison, they are both lynched by an angry mob in The Hague. |  |
| 1672, Aug. 20-21: | Upon hearing the news of the murder of the brothers De Witt, Benedictus de Spinoza wants to go to the scene of the crime to hang up a poster saying 'Ultimi barbarorum!', but he is restrained from doing so by his landlord. | |
| 1672, Sept. 9: | The Dordrecht town council is purged, the first of a series of purges in Holland and Zeeland. | |
| 1672, Sep. 14: | The Amsterdam city council is purged, bringing Gillis Valckenier's faction to power, including Joan Huydecoper, Johannes Hudde, Nicolaes Witsen and Coenraed van Beuningen. | |
| 1672, Nov. 15: | The anatomist Franciscus de la Boe Sylvius dies at Leiden. | |
| 1672, Dec. 27: | Coevoorden is recaptured by the Groningen militia, the first victory against the French after a long series of defeats. | |
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Ulrik Huber, De jure civitatis libri tres, Franeker: Johannes Wellens.
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Regnier de Graaf, De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus
novus, Leiden: Cornelius, Jacobus & Petrus Hackius. |
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| 1673, Mar. 29: | The Test Act is passed by the English Parliament, banning Catholics from public offices. |  |
| 1673, Apr. 3: | The poet Pieter Rixtel dies at Haarlem. | |
| 1673, May 18: | The Calvinist theologian Samuel Maresius dies at Leiden. | |
| 1673, Jun. 7 & 14: | A Dutch fleet under De Ruyter in two subsequent battles drives back a combined Anglo-French invasion fleet (Battle of Schooneveldt). | |
| 1673, Jun. 30: | Maastricht surrenders to the French. | |
| 1673, Aug.: | A 'Grand Aliance' against France is formed by the Dutch Republic, The Holy Roman Empire, Spain and Lorraine. | |
| 1673, Aug. 9: | A Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen recaptures New York. | |
| 1673, Aug. 17: | The physician and anatomist Regnier de Graaf dies at Delft. | |
| 1673, Aug. 21: | A combined Anglo-French fleet is defeated by De Ruyter at the Battle near Kijkduin (Battle of Texel). | |
| 1673, Dec. 27: | The abbé de Pontchâteau in a letter to Johannes van Neercassel says that Antoine Arnauld is acquainted with Van den Enden. | |
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Christiaen Huygens, Horologium oscillatorium, Paris: F. Muguet. |
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Balthasar Bekker, Defensio justa et necessaria quae est epistola apologetica
ad ... Samuelem Maresium, Franeker: Johannes Wellens. |
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Jean-Baptiste Stouppe, La Religion des Hollandois, Paris: François
Clousier & Pierre Auboüin. |
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Anna Maria van Schurman, Euklêria seu Melioris partis electio,
Altona: Cornelius van der Meulen. |
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| 1674, Feb. 13: | The religious leader Jean de Labadie dies at Altona, Germany. |  |
| 1674, Feb. 19: | The Peace Treaty of Westminster ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War. | |
| 1674, Mar.: | Van den Enden's associates spread posters and leaflets in Normandy, inciting the populace to rebel against the French government. | |
| 1674, Apr. 6: | Van den Enden and Latréaumont send a letter to the Count de Monterey, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, asking him for financial and military support for their plan to stir up a rebellion in Normandy. | |
| 1674, Apr. 11: | With coded messages in the Gazette de Bruxelles the Count de Monterey informs the conspirators that he is willing to support their plot. | |
| 1674, Jun. 4: | The painter Jan Lievens is buried at Amsterdam. | |
| 1674, Jul. 19: | The Court of Holland bans Benedictus de Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) and Lodewijk Meyer's Philosophia Sacra Scriptura interpres (1666). | |
| 1674, Aug. 1: | A tornado destroys large parts of Utrecht. |  |
| 1674, Aug. 11: | A French army under Condé defeats a Dutch-Spanish army under Prince William III at the Battle of Seneffe, during which a former student of Van den Enden, Nicolaes van Vlooswijk, is killed. | |
| 1674, Aug. 10-17: | Somewhere between August 10 and 17, Van den Enden receives a passport to travel to Antwerp. | |
| 1674, Aug. 25: | Van den Enden leaves for the Spanish Netherlands. | |
| 1674, Sep. 6: | Van den Enden is received by the Count de Monterey. | |
| 1674, Sep. 8: | A coded message in the Gazette de France informs the conspirators that the negotiations with the Count de Monterey have been concluded successfully. | |
| 1674, Sep. 11: | The Chevalier de Rohan, one of the conspirators, is arrested at Versailles and is brought to the Bastille. | |
| 1674, Sep. 12: | The politician and physician Nicolaes Tulp dies at The Hague. |  |
| 1674, Sep. 12: | At Rouen, Latréaumont is wounded while resisting his arrest and dies the same night without having confessed to anything. | |
| 1674, Sep. 17: | Van den Enden arrives in Paris, but flees as soon as he hears of the arrest of the Chevalier de Rohan. | |
| 1674, Sep. 20: | Franciscus van den Enden is arrested near Paris on the suspicion of having taken part in a plot against Louis XIV and is taken to the Bastille. | |
| 1674, Nov. 27: | Franciscus van den Enden, together with his accomplices, is executed in front of the Bastille. | |
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Christiaen Huygens, Horologium oscillatorium, Paris: F. Muguet. |
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Robert Hooke, An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth, London:
T. R. & John Martyn. |
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Nicolas de Malebranche, De la recherche de la vérité,
Paris: André Pralard. |
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| 1675, Mar. 15: | Christiaen Huygens obtains the exclusive right in France to produce his newly invented spiral spring clocks and pocket watches. |  |
| 1675, Mar. 4: | John Flamsteed is appointed as first Astronomer Royal of England. | |
| 1675, May 18: | The Polish astronomer Stanislaw Lubieniecki dies at Hamburg. | |
| 1675, Jun. 22: | The Royal Greenwich Observatory is established by Charles II. | |
| 1675, Aug. 2: | The new Portuguese (Sephardic) Synagogue of Amsterdam is consecrated. | |
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Jan Zoet, D'uitsteekenste digt-kunstige werkken, Amsterdam: Jan Klaasz
ten Hoorn. |
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| 1676, Apr. 22: | A Dutch fleet under Michiel Adriaansz de Ruyter defeats a French fleet at the Battle of Catania (Battle of Mount Etna), but De Ruyter is mortally wounded. |  |
| 1676, Jun. 11: | A combined Danish and Dutch fleet under the Dutch Admiral Cornelis Tromp crushes the Swedish at the Battle of Öland. | |
| 1676, Jul. 22: | Pope Clement X dies at Rome. | |
| 1676, Sep. 21: | Pope Innocent XI is elected. | |
| 1676, Nov. 1: | The Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius dies. | |
| 1676, Nov. 6: | The Spanish Charles II is declared of age. | |
| 1676, Dec. 7: | The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer in an article in the Journal des Sçavans gives the first estimate of the speed of light. | |
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S.I.B. [Frans Kuyper], Den philosopherenden boer, s.l.: s.n. |
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| 1677, Feb. 8: | The astronomer Jacques Cassini, son of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, is born at Paris. |  |
| 1677, Feb. 21: | The philosopher Benedictus de Spinoza dies at The Hague. | |
| 1677, Spring: | The Quaker William Penn writes the Charter or Fundamental Laws of West New Jersey, his first attempt to write a constitution. | |
| 1677, Apr. 11: | A French army under Philip of Orleans defeats a Dutch army under William III at the Battle of Kassel. | |
| 1677, Aug.t 26: | At Benjamin Furly's house in Rotterdam a debate is organized between Quakers,including George Fox and William Penn, and Mennonites, including Paulus Bredenburg and Frans Kuyper. | |
| 1677, Sep. 5: | Henry Oldenburg dies at Charlton, near Greenwich, England. | |
| 1677, Sep. 11: | The republican political philosopher James Harrington dies at London. | |
| 1677, Oct. 28: | At Benjamin Furly's house in Rotterdam another debate is organized between Quakers and Mennonites, with William Penn once again present. |  |
| 1677, Nov.: | In Delft, Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers spermatozoids. | |
| 1677, Nov. 14: | Prince William III marries Mary, the daughter of James, Duke of York (the future James II). | |
| 1677, Nov. 16: | The French capture Freiburg. | |
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B.d.S. [Benedictus de Spinoza], Opera posthuma, s.l. [Amsterdam]:
s.n. [Jan Rieuwertsz]. |
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B.d.S. [Benedictus de Spinoza], De nagelate schriften, s.l. [Amsterdam]:
s.n. [Jan Rieuwertsz]. |
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N.N., De Koeckoecx-zangh van de Nachtuylen, Zwolle, s.n. |
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| 1678, May 14: | The scholar Anna Maria van Schurman dies at Wiewerd. |  |
| 1678, Jun. 2: | The politician Pieter de Groot dies at Boekenrode, near Heemstede. | |
| 1678, Aug. 10: | The war between France and the Dutch Republic is ended by the Treaty of Nijmegen. | |
| 1678, Sep. 17: | The war between France and Spain is ended by the Treaty of Nijmegen. | |
| 1678, Oct. 18: | The painter Jacob Jordaens dies at Antwerp. | |
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John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, London: Nathaniel Ponder. |
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Themidis Alumnus [Adrianus Beverland], Peccatum originale, Eleutheropoli
[Leiden]: s.n. |
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| 1679, Feb. 5: | The poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel dies at Amsterdam. |  |
| 1679, May 27: | The philosopher Anne Finche, Viscountess Conway, dies. | |
| 1679, May 27: | The Habeas Corpus Act is passed in the United Kingdom, stipulating that no one can be arrested or imprisoned without a trial. | |
| 1679, Dec. 4: | The philosopher Thomas Hobbes dies at Hardwick, England. | |
| 1679, Dec. 31: | The astronomer, biologist and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli dies at Rome. | |
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Maria Sibylla Merian, Der Raupen Wunderbare Verwandelung, Nuremberg:
Johann Andreas Graffen (volume I).
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