1664 - 1683 (19 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1664 | - 1664: England siezes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, change name to New York
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| 2 | 1665 | - 1665: Great Plague in London
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| 3 | 1666 | - 1666: Great Fire of London
- 1666: First European printed paper banknote issued
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| 4 | 1667 | - 1667: Dutch fleet defeats the English in Medway river; treaties of Breda among Netherlands, England, France, and Denmark
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| 5 | 1668 | - 1668: Triple Alliance of England, Netherlands, and Sweden against France
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| 6 | 1669 | - 1669: Isaac Newton circulated a manuscript, 'De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas', the first notice of his calculus.
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| 7 | 1670 | - 1670: Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France to restore Roman Catholicism to England; Hudson's Bay Company founded
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| 8 | 1672 | - 1672: Third Anglo-Dutch war (until 1674); William III (of Orange) becomes ruler of Netherlands
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| 9 | 1673 | - 1673: Test Act aims to deprive English Roman Catholics and Nonconformists of public office
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| 10 | 1674 | - 1674: Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus in a distillation of human urine
- 1674: Anton van Leeuwenhoek reported his discovery of protozoa, using his newly-devised microscope
- 1674: Treaty of Westminster between England and the Netherlands
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| 11 | 1677 | - 1677: William III, ruler of the Netherlands, marries Mary, daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne
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| 12 | 1678 | - 1678: Popish Plot' in England; Titus Oates falsely alleges a Catholic plot to murder Charles II
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| 13 | 1679 | - 1679: Act of Habeas Corpus passed, forbidding imprisonment without trial; Parliament's Bill of Exclusion against the Roman Catholic Duke of York blocked by Charles II; Parliament dismissed; Charles II rejects petitions calling for a new Parliament; petitioners become known as Whigs; their opponents (royalists) known as Tories
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| 14 | 1681 | - 1681: Whigs reintroduce Exclusion Bill; Charles II dissolves Parliament
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