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This page relates to the year 1676 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • 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.

  • the Virginia account 40  000 white colonists.
  • Creation of the archbishop's palace of Bahia to the Brazil.

Asia

  • 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.

The Middle East

Europe

  • 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.

France

  • Period of spring and dry and hot summers (1676 - 1686). Early grape harvest.

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

Art & culture

  • In England, one closes the coffees as seditious hearths.
  • Metamorphoses , according to Ovide, of Isaac de Benserade.
  • Leibniz is named librarian and adviser deprived at the court of Hanover.

See also: 1676 with the theater

  • Construction of one boulevard in the place of the fortifications of the Door Saint-Denis with the Door Saint-Honore, Paris.
  • Jules Hardouin-Mansart carries out the dome of the church of the Invalides in Paris (1676 - 1706).
  • the English architect Sir Christopher Wren carries out the library of the Trinity College of Cambridge England (fine in 1684).

Science & technology

  • 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.

Births in 1676

Death in 1676

Easter Day

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