May 3: James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews for the Church of Scotland, is assassinated.(Engraving of lost 1840 painting by Sir William Allan).
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1679 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1679 MDCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita
2432
Armenian calendar
1128 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԸ
Assyrian calendar
6429
Balinese saka calendar
1600–1601
Bengali calendar
1086
Berber calendar
2629
English Regnal year
30 Cha. 2 – 31 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar
2223
Burmese calendar
1041
Byzantine calendar
7187–7188
Chinese calendar
戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4376 or 4169 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4377 or 4170
Coptic calendar
1395–1396
Discordian calendar
2845
Ethiopian calendar
1671–1672
Hebrew calendar
5439–5440
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1735–1736
- Shaka Samvat
1600–1601
- Kali Yuga
4779–4780
Holocene calendar
11679
Igbo calendar
679–680
Iranian calendar
1057–1058
Islamic calendar
1089–1090
Japanese calendar
Enpō 7 (延宝７年)
Javanese calendar
1601–1602
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar
4012
Minguo calendar
233 before ROC 民前233年
Nanakshahi calendar
211
Thai solar calendar
2221–2222
Tibetan calendar
阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1805 or 1424 or 652 — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1806 or 1425 or 653
1679 (MDCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1679th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 679th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1679, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1679 (MDCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1679th...
The 1670s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1679 BC to December 31, 1670 BC. c. 1674 BC—End of Middle Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. Start of the Second...
The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is an Act of Parliament in England (31 Cha. 2. c. 2) during the reign of King Charles II. It was passed by what became known...
The 1670s decade ran from January 1, 1670, to December 31, 1679. January 17 – Raphael Levy, a Jewish resident of the city of Metz in France, is burned...
March 1679 English general election resulted in the Habeas Corpus Parliament, named after the Habeas Corpus Act, which it enacted in May, 1679 to define...
The October 1679 English general election returned a majority of members in favour of the Exclusion Bill. Consequently, this parliament was known as the...
year 1679 in Sweden Monarch – Charles XI Treaties of Nijmegen 19 June - Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679) 5 February 1679 (NS) / January 26, 1679 (OS)...
(Treaty of the Pyrenees 1659) Free County of Burgundy (1668, 1679) French Hainaut (1679) Principality of Orange (1713) Duchy of Lorraine (1766) French...
he withdrew from public debate. Newton and Hooke had brief exchanges in 1679–80, when Hooke, appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence, opened...
of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates's fabrication of a supposed Popish Plot sparked the Exclusion...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1679. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
Vrankryk, Spanjen, Portugael en Italiën ..." by Jan ten Hoorn. November 23, 1679 – via Google Books. "Articvli Defensionales Peremptoriales & Elisivi, Bvrgermaister...
The year 1679 in science and technology involved some significant events. Establishment of Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam). Samuel Morland publishes The Doctrine...
Oxfordshire, England, designed by Hugh May and begun about 1663, is completed. 1679 Chapel (Église Saint-Louis des Invalides) at Les Invalides, Paris, is completed...
policy became civil unrest and erupted in violence during the early summer of 1679 with the assassination of Archbishop Sharp and the Battles of Drumclog and...
Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/ HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds...
article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1679. April 30 – John Locke, returning to England from France, moves into Thanet...
during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves. Although it referred...
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