* 1676: The Treaty of Zurawno that brought a temporary end to the Polish – Ottoman wars stipulated that the Lipka Tatars were to be given a free individual choice of whether they wanted to serve the Ottoman Empire or the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In the late 17th century, especially after Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, English settlers from the Tidewater region of Virginia began to migrate to the area.

In 1673 as maestro for the cathedral at Assisi he began intensive study of the works of Palestrina, and in 1676 moved to the cathedral at Rieti.

The tide of war slowly began to turn in the colonists ' favor later in the spring of 1676, as it became a war of attrition ; both sides were determined to eliminate the other.

Also in 1676 a subscription for a " chapel of ease " was opened, and in 1684 the church of King Charles the Martyr was duly built and the town began to develop around it.

It began in 1676 when the 5th lord Maeda Tsunanori moved his administration to the castle and began to landscape a garden in this vicinity.

The commission began its work on June 7, 1676.

Having been admitted a freeman of the Company of Stationers on 20 December 1677, he began business on his own account, following his brother Richard, who had commenced in 1676, and had published, among other things, Thomas Otway's Don Carlos.

In 1676, the Spanish military administrator for the region of Colotlán Toribio González de Escalante, began the extraction of saltpeter in the valley.

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.

During the war, the Praying town became deserted, and the English with their Indian allies marched through Woodstock to present day Thompson in the summer of 1676 burning any crops or stored corn they could find.

Waldron believed he could capture the natives without a pitched battle and so on September 7, 1676 invited the natives — about 400 in total, half local and half refugees — to participate in a mock battle against the militia.

Before an English naval squadron could arrive to aid Berkeley and his forces, Bacon died from dysentery on October 26, 1676 .< ref > Narratives of the Insurrections, 1675 – 1690, ed.

Among his best-known plays are Le Mercure galant, the title of which was changed to La Comédie sans titre (" Play without a title ") ( 1683 ) when the publisher of the literary review of the same name objected ( see " Mercure de France "); La Princesse de Clêves ( 1676 ), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as Germanicus ; Esope à la ville ( 1690 ); and Esope à la cour ( 1701 ). His lack of dramatic instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the scheme of his Esope, which allows the fabulist to come on the stage in each scene and recite a fable.

The army that had been amassed in Denmark could now be shipped to Scania to take the war to Swedish soil and on June 29, 1676, 14, 500 troops were landed at Råå south of Helsingborg.

Chesten Marchant or Cheston Marchant, who died in 1676 at Gwithian, Cornwall is believed to have been the last monoglot Cornish speaker, as opposed to other speakers such as Dolly Pentreath who could also speak English.

Chesten Marchant, who died in 1676 at Gwithian, is believed to have been the last monoglot Cornish speaker ( as opposed to Dolly Pentreath of Paul who could speak English as well )

Under the tutelage of the " Sun King ," the French Navy was well financed and equipped, managing to resoundingly defeat a combined Spanish-Dutch fleet at the Battle of Palermo in 1676 during the Franco-Dutch War, although, along with the English navy, it suffered several strategic reversals against the Dutch, who were led by the brilliant Michiel de Ruyter.

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

On February 21, 1676, Native Americans killed 17 Medfield citizens and destroyed half of the town ( 32 houses, two mills, and many barns ).

The town was largely burnt to the ground later that winter in early 1676.

In 1676, with only 400 inhabitants left, it was the most populous town in the Łomża region.

In mid-February 1676, Charles sent his Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Sir Joseph Williamson to tell Shaftesbury to leave town.

In the naval battle of Messina the French 1676 defeated the Spanish and were invited by Messina to occupy the town.

The French captured the town in July 1676 under Louis de Crevant, Duke of Humières and strengthened the castle.

The Hall was extensively refurbished during the period 1877 to 1881 ( the porch of the 1676 building is now incorporated into the facade of Swanage town hall ).

English government executes Metacom in 1676, nails body parts to town hall, sells wife, children, followers to plantation slavery.

In 1676, the first town of the Donbas emerged: Solanoye ( now Slavyansk ) which was built for the profitable business of extracting newly-discovered rock-salt reserves.

Haslingden grew from a market town ( a market was established in 1676 ) and later a coaching station to a significant industrial borough during the period of the Industrial Revolution.

The town was first attested in 1676 by French archaeologist Jacob Spon as an Albanian village.

Padre Francisco Barajas, exerted efforts to separate this town from Paete, and Don Diego Jorge became the first Capitan Barangay on May 12, 1676.

In the year 1676, the greatest part of the church of St Columb was blown up with gunpowder by three youths of the town.

The Battle of Halmstad ( also known as the Battle at Fyllebro ) was fought at Fyllebro, approximately five kilometers south of the town Halmstad in southwest Sweden on August 17, 1676.

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.

The conflict was largely over by August 1676, although it did not formally end until a treaty was signed in 1678.

# A 1676 treaty between the Mohawk nation and the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut which ended King Philip's War in New England ; it also governed relations between the Iroquois and a number of other tribes, including the Mahicans of the Hudson River, and the Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Massachusett of New England.

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.

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.

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.