* 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, founder of the Sabbatean movement ( d. 1676 )

* 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

* 1629 – Alexis of Russia ( d. 1676 )

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

* 1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( b. 1676 )

* 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway ( b. 1676 )

* 1729 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher ( b. 1676 )

* Francis II Rákóczi, Duke of Transylvania ( 1676 – 1735 )

* 1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer ( d. 1676 )

* 1612 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French military officer ( d. 1676 )

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The heresies of Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) distorted Lurianic Kabbalah and led to the Jacob Emden # Emden-Eybeschütz controversy | Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy.

* 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist ( d. 1676 )

* 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German writer ( b. 1606 )

* 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

* 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia ( b. 1629 )

* 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher ( d. 1729 )

* 1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1747 )

* 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.

* 1623 – Jacopo Melani, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1676 )

* 1676 – John Weldon, English musician and composer ( d. 1736 )

* 1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve ( 1612 – 1676 ) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.

An early experiment to measure the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676.

Ole Christensen Rømer (; 25 September 1644, Århus – 19 September 1710, Copenhagen ) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

* 1676 – Ole Rømer measures the speed of light for the first time

Rømer presented his results to the French Academy of Sciences, and it was summarised soon after by an anonymous reporter in a short paper,, published 7 December 1676 in the Journal des sçavans.

Bacteria and microorganisms were first observed with a microscope by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676, initiating the scientific field microbiology.

* February 15 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal ( d. 1676 )

* March 18 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1676 )

In 1676, his credibility was questioned when he sent the Royal Society a copy of his first observations of microscopic single-celled organisms.

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Tradition tells that they first reached the Missouri River in 1676.

Papin first visited London in 1675, and worked with Robert Boyle from 1676 to 1679, publishing an account of his work in Continuation of New Experiments ( 1680 ).

Following the English colonists ' defeat of the remaining Chowanoke in 1676, the following year, they created a Chowanoke Indian Reservation, the first within the present-day United States.

The victory at the Battle of Halmstad ( 17 August 1676 ), when Charles and his commander-in-chief Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated a Danish division, was the king's first gleam of good luck.

In March 1676, the town of Simsbury was first pillaged, then burned to the ground.

The Mohegan village, now known as Fort Shantok, was protected on the inland side by palisades first built in about 1636, at the time of the Pequot War, rebuilt during wars with the Narragansett people circa 1653 – 1657, and rebuilt again at the time of King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ).

Ashby was first settled in 1676 and was officially incorporated in 1767.

Elsinboro's first mention dates back to May 12, 1701, though it was also mentioned in records on November 28, 1676.

The first recorded use of the term universal joint for this device was by Hooke in 1676, in his book Helioscopes.

The ahnentafel system of numeration is also known as: the Eytzinger Method, for Michaël Eytzinger, the Austrian-born historian who first published the principles of the system in 1590 ; the Sosa Method, named for Jerónimo ( Jerome ) de Sosa, the Spanish genealogist who popularized the numbering system in his work Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676 ; and the Sosa – Stradonitz Method, for Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz, the genealogist and son of Friedrich August Kekulé, who published his interpretation of Sosa's method in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898.

His name first apears in the will of one Dominick Martin, also a jeweller, dated 26 January 1676, in which Martin willed Fallon some of his tools.

The site of Chicoutimi was first settled in 1676 as a French trading post in the fur trade.

These led first to the Pequot War ( 1636 – 1638 ), and then to King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ), after which most of the natives in southern New England had been pacified, killed, or driven away.

The first magpies in Ireland were recorded by Robert Leigh, of Rosegarland, Co. Wexford, as having appeared in the County of Wexford about 1676.

The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676.

The first dates from c. 1676 and is known variously as Mystery Sonatas, Rosary Sonatas ( Mysterien Sonaten, Die Rosenkranz-Sonaten ), Copper-Plate Engraving Sonatas, etc., remaining unpublished during the composer's lifetime.

The blight, named from the cock's spur it forms on grasses, was identified and named by Denis Dodart, who reported the relation between ergotized rye and bread poisoning in a letter to the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1676 ( John Ray mentioned ergot for the first time in English the next year ), but " ergotism ", in this modern sense, was first recorded in 1853.

The name " Micmac " was first recorded in a memoir by de La Chesnaye in 1676.