Wretched Man is still in arms for fear;
For fear he arms, and is of arms afraid,
By fear, to fear, successively betrayed
Base fear.
- A Satire against Mankind, John Wilmot, 1679
Born in 1679:
Died in 1679:
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English moral philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
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English composer John Banister.
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English philosopher Anne Finch Conway.
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English novelist Roger Boyle, first Earl of Orrery.
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German composer Dietrich Becker.
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German composer Werner Fabricius.
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English physiologist John Mayow.
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Flemish-born French painter Jean-François Millet, aka Francisque.
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Dutch painter Jan Steen.
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Italian painter Giovanni Battista Passeri.
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Dutch painter Jan van de Capelle.
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French painter Guillaume Courtois, known in Italy as Il Borgognone.
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Dutch dramatist Joost van den Vondel.
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Flemish painter Jan van Kessel.
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Italian physician and astronomer Giovanni Alfonso Borelli.
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French cleric and writer Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz.
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English satirist Sir John Berkenhead.
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Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg.
His brother Ernst August succeeds him.
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Lady Dorothy Pakington, prominent Royalist and authority on ettiquette.
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French Duchesse Marie de Rohan de Chevreuse, courtier and political
schemer, foe of Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin.
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French Duchesse de Longueville, another anti-royalist during the
Fronde.
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James Sharp, archbishop of St. Andrews, see below.
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300-400 Covenanters at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, 200 or so in the
later shipwreck of the Crown of London.
Events of 1679:
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Aphra Behn's play, The Feigned Courtesans, premeires,
as does The Rover.
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John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee's play Oedipus, King of Thebes
premeires.
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Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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After much public pressure, the English Parliament passes an act granting
a right of habeus corpus.
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Dutch explorer Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, explores
Lake Superior, claiming it for Louis XIV.
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In Scotland, Presbyterian Covenanters assassinate Archbishop Sharp,
and Covenanters rise up in an attempt to stop 'religious persecution'
(toleration of Catholics). They raise an army of 5000 to out Charles II's
forces, but this army is routed by the Duke of Monmouth at the Battle
of Bothwell Bridge. 400 are killed and 1200 are captured. 258 of
these are packed aboard the Crown of London for transportation
to the West Indies, but the ship founders in a storm off Deerness in
Orkney. The holds are locked, and only 47 prisoners escape.
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John Culpeper, one of the Tobacco growers who seized the government
of Albemarle colony eighteen months previously, travels to England
to press the planters' case. His rival Thomas Miller arrives before him,
and Culpeper is tried for treason and embezzlement. However, Culpeper
is acquitted on the grounds that, at the time, Albemarle had had no government
to rebel against.
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Thomas Dangerfield makes up a story about a fictitious Catholic
conspiracy against Charles II, imitation of the previous
year's made-up Catholic conspiracy against Charles II.
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Louis XIV is a peacemaker this year:
1678 - 1679 - 1680
How They Were Made - 17th Century
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