Event of Interest
Feb 15 Isaac Newton writes to Robert Hooke “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” (O.S. 5 Feb)
Battle of Öland
Jun 1 Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79)
- Jun 2 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch and Spanish fleet
- Jun 11 Battle at Öland: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
- Jul 29 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
- Aug 3 Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
- Aug 12 1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England
- Sep 19 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia, on fire
- Sep 21 Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
- Oct 27 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire sign the Peace of Warsaw
- Nov 3 Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
- Nov 16 1st colonial prison organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Dec 3 Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000
- Dec 4 Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt
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