* 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 )

* 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 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.

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

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

He was born in Augsburg, son of Johann Georg Mozart ( 1679 – 1736 ), a bookbinder, and his second wife Anna Maria Sulzer ( 1696 – 1766 ).

At that university he graduated in May 1727, undertaking successfully in his thesis to prove that the so-called salivary duct, claimed as a recent discovery by Georg Daniel Coschwitz ( 1679 – 1729 ), was nothing more than a blood-vessel.

* March 24 – Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer ( born 1679 )

* Johann Georg Mozart ( 1679 – 1736 ), Wolfgang's paternal grandfather

* Georg Friedrich Kaufmann ( 1679 – 1735 ), Baroque composer from Thuringia ( now in southern Germany )

* Johann Friedrich ( 1625 – 1679 ), Prince of Calenberg 1665-1679

* Johann Friedrich Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg ( 1625 – 1679, duke of the principality of Calenberg )

* 1679 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech Baroque composer ( d. 1745 )

* Pietro Filippo Scarlatti ( 1679 – 1750 ), Baroque composer, organist and choirmaster, son of Alessandro Scarlatti

* André Danican Philidor ( André I, " l ' aîné ") ( c. 1652 – 1730 ), son of Jean, composer of the Marche française ( Marche royale ) ( 1679 )

* March 7 – Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer ( born 1679 )

* February 22 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer ( born 1679 )

* December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer ( born 1679 )

* April 26 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer ( born 1679 )

Jan Dismas Zelenka ( 16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745 ), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.

In 1679, Blow, who had been appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in 1669, resigned his office in favour of his pupil.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

In 1679 Pope Innocent XI publicly condemned sixty-five of the more radical propositions ( stricti mentalis ), taken chiefly from the writings of Escobar, Suarez and other casuists as propositiones laxorum moralistarum and forbade anyone to teach them under penalty of excommunication.

The separation of Crux from Centaurus is generally attributed to the French astronomer Augustin Royer in 1679, but other historians attribute the invention of Crux to Petrus Plancius in 1613.

The low church Whigs had failed in their attempt to pass the Exclusion Bill to exclude James from the throne between 1679 and 1681, and James's supporters were the high church Anglican Tories.

In that year the Farnese pope, Paul III, detached Parma and Piacenza from the Papal States and gave them as a duchy for his illegitimate son, Pier Luigi Farnese, whose descendants ruled in Parma until 1731, when Antonio Farnese ( 1679 – 1731 ), last male of the Farnese line, died.

In 1679 he publicly condemned sixty-five propositions, taken chiefly from the writings of Escobar, Suarez and other casuists ( mostly Jesuit casuists, who had been heavily attacked by Pascal in his Provincial Letters ) as propositiones laxorum moralistarum and forbade anyone to teach them under penalty of excommunication.

Within the Holy Roman Empire these territories gained a wide range of independence, threatened, however, by the French kings, who sought, from the 17th century onwards, to incorporate all the territories on the western side of the river Rhine and repeatedly invaded the area in 1635, in 1676, in 1679 and in 1734, extending their realm to the Saar River and establishing the city and stronghold of Saarlouis in 1680.

Publication was controlled under the Licensing Act of 1662, but the Act's lapses from 1679 – 1685 and from 1695 onwards encouraged a number of new titles.

Anne's father and stepmother retired to Brussels in March 1679 in the wake of anti-Catholic hysteria fed by the Popish Plot, and Anne visited them from the end of August.

A short further correspondence developed, and towards the end of it Hooke, writing on 6 January 1679 | 80 to Newton, communicated his " supposition ... that the Attraction always is in a duplicate proportion to the Distance from the Center Reciprocall, and Consequently that the Velocity will be in a subduplicate proportion to the Attraction and Consequently as Kepler Supposes Reciprocall to the Distance.

A short further correspondence developed, and towards the end of it Hooke, writing on 6 January 1679 | 80 to Newton, communicated his " supposition ... that the Attraction always is in a duplicate proportion to the Distance from the Center Reciprocall, and Consequently that the Velocity will be in a subduplicate proportion to the Attraction and Consequently as Kepler Supposes Reciprocall to the Distance.

Newton also acknowledged to Halley that his correspondence with Hooke in 1679 – 80 had reawakened his dormant interest in astronomical matters, but that did not mean, according to Newton, that Hooke had told Newton anything new or original: " yet am I not beholden to him for any light into that business but only for the diversion he gave me from my other studies to think on these things & for his dogmaticalness in writing as if he had found the motion in the Ellipsis, which inclined me to try it.

On the other hand, Pascal's denunciation of Jesuit casuistry and its " relaxed morality " also led Innocent XI to condemn ( in 1679 ) sixty-five propositions which were taken chiefly from the writings of the Jesuits Escobar and Suarez.

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 ).

In 1679, Talbor was called by the King of France, Louis XIV, whose son was suffering from malaria fever.

Resettlement commenced in 1679 at Newtown, located on the southern end of Arrowsic Island ( across the river from present-day Phippsburg Center ).

Surviving from the settlement's early history is the Balch House, built, according to dendrochronological testing performed in 2006, about 1679.

But colonists moving in from Watertown in the mid-17th century established scattered farms in Weston, and by 1679, a sawmill, several taverns, some doctors, and according to the historians, " probably some lawyers ," had settled in Weston along with many, many African slaves.

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.

In 1679, a man named John Thomas is known to have sold a local plot to Andrew Miller, a cooper from either England or Scotland.

After the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1679 the island passed from Danish to Swedish ownership again.