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Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.
The son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, Selkirk was born in 1676.
Her work in choreographing the landmark 1986 production of Lully's 1676 tragedie-lyrique Atys was part of the national celebration of the 300th anniversary of Lully's death.
However, Mariotte's work was not published until 1676.
At this time a further design evolved, reintroducing oars to create the galley frigate such as the Charles Galley of 1676 which was rated as a 32-gun fifth rate but also had a bank of 40 oars set below the upper deck which could be used to propel the ship in the absence of a favourable wind.
In 1676 the colonial capital was moved from Tortuga to Port-de-Paix.
He attended Westminster School and in 1676 was appointed copyist at Westminster Abbey.
An early experiment to measure the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676.
In 1676, Legnica passed to direct Habsburg rule after the death of the last Silesian Piast duke, Georg Wilhelm ( son of Duke Christian of Brieg ), despite the earlier inheritance pact by Brandenburg and Silesia, by which it was to go to Brandenburg.
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.
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.
Pope Clement X ( 13 July 1590 – 22 July 1676 ), born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was Pope from 29 April 1670 to 22 July 1676.
Blessed Pope Innocent XI ( 16 May 1611 – 12 August 1689 ), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope from 1676 to 1689.
On 21 September 1676, Odescalchi was chosen Clement X's successor and took the name of Innocent XI.
First printed in Amsterdam in 1650 it was translated to French in 1651, German in 1676, English and Dutch in 1729 and Polish in 1963.
* Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro ( 1676 – 1764 ) Spanish, was the most prominent promoter of the critical empiricist attitude at the dawn of the Spanish Enlightenment.
Year 1676 ( MDCLXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
He would subsequently serve in many offices in the town and colonial governments, and in his 70s he was elected captain of the militia in Providence during King Philip's War in 1676.
In the end King Philip ’ s War ( 1675 – 1676 ) was one of the bitterest events in his life as his efforts ended with the burning of Providence in March 1676, including his own house.
In 1676, his credibility was questioned when he sent the Royal Society a copy of his first observations of microscopic single-celled organisms.
In February 1676, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in July, he moved into the Observatory where he lived until 1684, when he was finally appointed priest to the parish of Burstow, Surrey.
" The building was completed in the summer of 1676.

1676 and appointed
There was a General Commander-in-Chief in the 13th century, and another died in 1676 at the hands of the rebel Chen Qiyu, a Wu Sangui loyalist, during the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, for which subsequent generations were " graced " by the imperial court ; one was appointed Prefect of Guilin circa 1680.
He was appointed a judge of the common pleas in 1676, and two years later was promoted to be Lord Chief Justice.
He was appointed mayor by Governor Edmund Andros on October 14, 1676 and served until 1677.

1676 and chaplain
In 1676, he became chaplain to the bishop of Oxford, and, in 1681, he obtained the rectory of Bletchington, Oxfordshire, and was made chaplain to Charles II.
He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676, curate and lecturer at St. Margaret's, Westminster, in 1679, canon of Windsor in 1681, dean of Westminster in 1683 and Bishop of Rochester in 1684.
In 1676, as private chaplain, he accompanied the Duke of Lauderdale, the royal commissioner, to Scotland, and shortly afterwards received the degree of D. D.

1676 and Lawrence
With the 1676 Quintipartite Deed more accurate surveys and maps were made resulting in the Thornton line, drawn around 1696, and the Lawrence line, drawn around 1743, which was adopted as the final line for legal purposes.

1676 and Hyde
In 1676, Laurence Hyde was sent as ambassador to Poland ; he then travelled to Vienna, whence he proceeded to Nijmwegen to take part in the peace congress as one of the English representatives.

1676 and Earl
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.
These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.
The Earl of Rochester, real-life Restoration rake, courtier and poet, is flatteringly portrayed in Etherege's The Man of Mode ( 1676 ) as a riotous, witty, intellectual, and sexually irresistible aristocrat, a template for posterity's idea of the glamorous Restoration rake ( actually never a very common character in Restoration comedy ).
* Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine ( 1676 – 25 December 1730 ).
* William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry ( c. 1676 – 18 March 1751 )
After Buckingham retired in 1676, Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, Charles II's daughter, moved in when she married Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield.
Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford ( 30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676 ) was the only surviving child of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland ( 1558 – 1605 ) by his wife Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.
As of 2010 there are twelve subsidiary titles attached to the dukedom: Lord Murray of Tullibardine ( 1604 ), Lord Murray, Gask and Balquhidder ( 1628 ), Lord Murray, Balvany and Gask ( 1676 ), Lord Murray, Balvenie and Gask, in the County of Perth ( 1703 ), Viscount of Balquhidder ( 1676 ), Viscount of Balquhidder, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, in the County of Perth ( 1703 ), Earl of Atholl ( 1629 ), Earl of Tullibardine ( 1628 ), Earl of Tullibardine ( 1676 ), Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle, in the County of Perth ( 1703 ), Marquess of Atholl ( 1676 ) and Marquess of Tullibardine, in the County of Perth ( 1703 ).
In 1676 he was created Lord Murray, Balveny and Gask, Viscount of Balquhidder, Earl of Tullibardine and Marquess of Atholll, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

1676 and Rochester
The famous ride from Kent to York took place early one summer's morning in 1676, after Nevison had robbed a sailor at Gad's Hill, near Rochester, Kent who recognised him.

1676 and king
He took holy orders in 1676, and two years later the king made him abbot of Aulnay.
On 24 June 1676, during the election of the Sheriffs of the City of London at the Guildhall, linen draper Francis Jenks gave a sensational speech arguing that two statutes from the reign of Edward III required that parliament sit every year, and that by proroguing the Cavalier Parliament until 15 February 1677 ( meaning no session would be held in 1676 at all ), the king had inadvertently dissolved parliament and that the Cavalier Parliament was now legally dissolved.
A defensive alliance with John III of Poland, was rendered inoperative on August 4, 1677 by the annihilation of Sweden's sea-power, the Battle of Öland, June 17, 1676 ; Battle of Fehmarn, June 1677, and the difficulties of the Polish king.
On October 24, 1676, the Swedish king Charles XI marched back into Scania with an army of 12, 000, forcing the Danes in the defensive.
He was pastor at Rouen from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he obtained leave of the king to retire to Holland.

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