* 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.

French examples from the same period include the memoirs of Cardinal de Retz ( 1614 – 1679 ) and the Duc de Saint-Simon 2001 / 2010.

* 1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier, statesman, and dramatist ( d. 1679 )

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

The first significant argument against dualism came from Thomas Hobbes's ( 1588 – 1679 ) materialist critique of the human person.

* 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher ( b. 1588 )

* 1679 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer ( d. 1744 )

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher ( d. 1679 )

* William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1679 – 1745 )

* 1679 – Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, composer and organist from southern Germany ( d. 1735 )

* 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist ( d. 1679 )

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

* William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1679 – 30 March 1746 )

Christian Wolff ( 1679 – 1754 ) was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the Enlightenment to German readers ; he legitimized German as a philosophic language.

* 1595 – Antonio Maria Abbatini, Italian composer ( d. 1679 )

* 1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.

* 1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.

As early as 1679, Europeans were passing by the modern location of Floodwood as they turned from the Saint Louis River to the East Savanna River on their way to the portage.

The portage likely was used by Europeans as early as 1679, when Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut visited a Sioux village at Big Sandy Lake during his exploration of the Lake Superior region and the Upper Mississippi.

The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.

" The procedure for issuing a writ of habeas corpus was first codified by the Habeas Corpus Act 1679, following judicial rulings which had restricted the effectiveness of the writ.

In a 2005 speech, Lord Woolf described it as " first of a series of instruments that now are recognised as having a special constitutional status ", the others being the Habeas Corpus Act ( 1679 ), the Petition of Right ( 1628 ), the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

* July 15 – Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas ( b. c. 1679 )

The first modern philosopher to articulate a detailed contract theory was Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ).

The first Exclusion Bill was voted by a substantial majority in its second reading in May 1679.

These purportedly include the first European vessel to sail the Great Lakes, Le Griffon built in 1679 on the eastern shore of Lake Erie, near Buffalo, New York, Sieur de la Salle navigated across Lake Erie, up the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River out into Lake Huron.

As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

The Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first described the microscopic appearance of urate crystals in 1679.

In 1679 Hartknoch published a book about Prussian history, first in Latin and then in German ( Alt-und Neues Preussen ), as well as Preussische Kirchen-Historia, a history of the church in Prussia.

Jieziyuan Huazhuan ( Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden ), a five-volume work first published in 1679, has been in use as a technical textbook for artists and students ever since.

In 1661, the first parish of Sainte-Famille was founded, followed by another four parishes in 1679 / 1680.

The Cavalier Parliament convened for the first time on 8 May 1661, and it would endure for over 17 years, finally being dissolved on 24 January 1679.

The first known mention of the name ' viol d ' amore ' appeared in John Evelyn's Diary ( 20 November 1679 ): " for its swetenesse & novelty the Viol d ' Amore of 5 wyre-strings, plaid on with a bow, being but an ordinary violin, play'd on Lyra way by a German, than which I never heard a sweeter Instrument or more surprizing ..."

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 ).

He first addressed the Royal Society in 1679 on the subject of his digester, and remained mostly in London until about 1687, when he left to take up an academic post in Germany.

He also advocated rough treatment of the inhabitants, and the first Governor-General of Scania, his trusted aide Johan Gyllenstierna ( governor-general 1679 – 1680 ) was notably brutal in his treatment of the locals.

In 1679, schooling systems emerged and John Fish became the first schoolmaster in Stonington, conducting classes and lessons in his home.

Marion was first settled in 1679 as " Sippican ", a district of Rochester, Massachusetts.

De Tonti founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1679, and in Arkansas in 1683.

The French established the first post here, Fort Conti, in 1679.

In 1679, the 18-year-old Charles II married Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ), eldest daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ( the only sibling of Louis XIV ) and his first wife Princess Henrietta of England.