1676

This page relates to the year 1676 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

April: War against the chief of the Indians Wampanoag, Metacom (known as king Philippe), on southern bank of bay of the Massachusetts. The English, victorious, lose six hundred men and three thousand Indians are massacred, of which Metacom itself (August 12th). The defeat of the Indians in New England gives to the European colonists the control of the North-American coast.
May 5th: The Dutchmen of the Admiral Synkes take Cayenne.
June: Beginning of the Revolt of Nathaniel Bacon in Virginia.
December 18th: The admiral D' Estrée takes again Cayenne with the Dutchmen.

Galdan becomes the chief of the Dzoungars (fine in 1697).
China: The khan of the Tchakhar revolted against the Mandchous Bourmi is made prisoner. The Fujian and the area of revolted Canton are subjected (fine in 1677).

the Sikh S under the command of their chief Gobind Singh revolt against the capacity moghol.

October 19th: Died of Fazil Ahmet Köprülü. Kara Mustafa, becomes top dog of the Ottoman Empire (fine in 1689).
Last Devchirmé: 3000 children not-Moslems are taken to be useful in the body of the Janissaire S.

January 8th: The French Abraham Duquesne is victorious of the Dutch admiral De Ruyter close to the islands Lipari.
January 29th: Beginning of the reign of the tsar Fédor III of Russia (end in 1682).

With died of Alexis Ier poses the problem of the succession: it had two wire of Marie Miloslavski (Fédor and Ivan) and a son of Natalia Narychkina, Pierre. Two clans create, one dominated by Sophia Alexeievna, sister elder of Fédor and Ivan, and that of the Narychkine leads by the tsarina Nathalie. The Zemski sobor proclaims tsar Fédor III what involves the distance of Narychkine.
the capacity initially belongs to Artamon Matvéiev until its exile in Siberia in July, then with the clan of Marie Miloslavski, mother of the tsar, died in 1669.

April 22nd: Abraham Duquesne is victorious with Agosta, in the north of Syracuse where De Ruyter is killed.
June 2nd: Abraham Duquesne is victorious in the gulf of Palermo. The French soldiers occupy Messine and part of the sicilian coasts.
June 29th: The Danes invade Helsingborg. Beginning of the War of Scanie between the Sweden and the Denmark (1676 - 1679). Sweden will be saved only by its French ally Louis XIV.
September 25th - October 14th: Victoire of Jean Sobieski on the Turks with Zurawno in Ukraine. It imposes the restitution of part of the Ukraine on the Poland.
September 21st: Beginning of the Innocent Pontificate of XI (fine in 1689).
October 17th: Turkey recovers the Podolie on the Poland with the treaty of Jouravna.
December 4th: The Swedish beat the Danish with the Bataille of Lund.
December 14th: Léopold I {{er}} wife Eléonore de Palatinat-Neubourg.

Peace talks with Nimègue.
France supports the Hungarian rebellion. The count Imre Thököly (1657 - 1705) takes the head of the insurrection, and constitutes an army of kurutz (of Latin cruciatus , cross), noble Protestants revolted against the Habsbourg, soldiers of the dismissed borders and peasants. He organizes an Eastern principality as Slovakia and gains a series of victories over the forces of the emperor Léopold I {{er}}.
Leibniz becomes adviser aulic of Jean-Frederic of Hanover.

February 5th: Amnesties with revolted Breton.
July 17th: Execution of the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, implied in the Business of the poisons. Several tens of people are also carried out. Madam de Montespan, compromised, is protected by the king.

Pellisson, protesting converted, organizes the “case of conversions” for the forced conversion of the Protestants.
Creation of the Parliament of Besancon.

Construction of the observatory of Greenwich to London.
the Astronome Danish Ole Christensen Rømer discovers that the light moves with a speed finished, about several hundreds of Kilomètre S by second.
the Dutch biologist Antoine van Leeuwenhoek observes Protozoaires with the Microscope and names them “animalcules”.
the English scientist Robert Hooke discovers the laws of elasticity.
Tests of physics of Edme Mariotte.
Chart of the Moon, Cassini.
posthumous Publication of Ornithologia libri very of Francis Willughby by his/her friend John Ray.

January 14th: Pier Francesco Cavalli, type-setter and Italian organist (Creamed, 1602 - Venice, 1676), choirmaster in Saint-Marc, author of 45 operas.
February 14th: Abraham Bump, engraver (1602 -1676).
March 16th: Henri of the Plessis-Guénégaud, former Secretary of State of the House of the King.
April 29th: De Ruyter
July 25th: François Hédelin, abbot of Aubignac, French playwright.
August 17th: Grimmelshausen, German novelist (1620 -1676).
September 9th: Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founder of Montreal (° February 15th 1612)
September 30th (possible date): Sabbataï Tsevi
October 28th: Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, French writer (Paris, 1595 -1676).

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