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 – 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.

The famed sailing ship Le Griffon reached the mouth of the Detroit River in mid-August 1679 on its maiden voyage through the Great Lakes.

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.

In 1679, he waited for the ship Le Griffon which never returned.

While exploring the region on the ship Le Griffon with Louis Hennepin, La Salle reached St. Ignace on August 27, 1679.

Catholic priest and missionary Father Louis Hennepin accompanied fellow French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on the ship Le Griffon in exploring the Great Lakes in 1679.

Le Griffon, a seven-cannon, 45-ton barque, was constructed on the upper Niagara River at or near Cayuga Creek and launched on August 7, 1679.

* The La Salle Neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, the place where La Salle's ship, Le Griffon, was built in 1679.

Born in Paris, he was a pupil of Jean Le Pautre and the son of Jean Marot ( 1620 – 1679 ), who was also an architect and engraver.

Here, La Salle filled the Griffon with pelts and in late November 1679 sent the Griffon back to the site of modern day Buffalo, never to be seen again.

Robert de LaSalle claimed the area for New France after his 1679 expedition on the Griffon.

After a brief visit to France, where his collection of ancient coins attracted some attention, Galland returned to the Levant in 1677 and in 1679 he undertook a third voyage, being commissioned by the French East India Company to collect for the cabinet of Colbert.

His early operas ( Gli equivoci nel sembiante 1679 ; L ’ honestà negli amori 1680, containing the famous aria " Già il sole dal Gange "; Il Pompeo 1683, containing the well-known airs " O cessate di piagarmi " and " Toglietemi la vita ancor ," and others down to about 1685 ) retain the older cadences in their recitatives, and a considerable variety of neatly constructed forms in their charming little arias, accompanied sometimes by the string quartet, treated with careful elaboration, sometimes with the continuo alone.

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 new WIC had a capital that was slightly more than 6 million guilders around 1679, which was largely supplied by the Amsterdam Chamber.

Official attempts to suppress these led to a rising in 1679, defeated by James Duke of Monmouth, the King's illegitimate son, at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge.

" 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.

* Anatomia Plantarum, two volumes published in 1675 and 1679, an exhaustive study of botany published by the Royal Society.

In 1721-3 a south-westwards expansion of Friedrichstadt was planned under the orders of King Frederick William I, and this was completed in 1732-4 by architect Johann Philipp Gerlach ( 1679 – 1748 ).

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.

Henri de Roy ( Henricus Regius, 1598 – 1679 ), Professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht, was condemned by the Rector of the University, Gijsbert Voet ( Voetius ), for teaching Descartes's physics.

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.

Tales of my Landlord includes the now highly regarded novel Old Mortality set in 1679 – 89 against the backdrop of the ferocious anti-Covenanting campaign of the Tory aristocrat Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee ( called " Bluidy Clavers " by his opponents and Bonnie Dundee by his Tory friends ).

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.

Later, technicalities in the law were exploited to keep the accused imprisoned without bail even where the offenses were bailable ; such loopholes were for the most part closed by the Habeas Corpus Act 1679.

Later editions are those published at Oxford ( 1679 ), at Zeitz and Jena, edited by Cellarius, with annotations of his own and others ( 1679, 1713, 1729 ).

In the United Kingdom, the Bill of Rights is further accompanied by the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, Habeas Corpus Act 1679 and Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 as some of the basic documents of the uncodified British constitution.

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

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.

Other buildings designed by Hooke include The Royal College of Physicians ( 1679 ), Ragley Hall in Warwickshire, and the parish church at Willen in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

After the death of Prince John Maurice in 1679, the house was owned by the Maes family, who leased the house to the Dutch government.