1679 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1679?
- January 24, 1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
- June 1, 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
- July 2, 1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
- August 7, 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
- September 18, 1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who Were Born In The Year 1679?
- January 24, 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
- March 18, 1679 – Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
- May 14, 1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
- August 22, 1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
- October 18, 1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)
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