In 1679, a group of scholars killed a bailiff, ostensibly in defence of the Abbey's traditional right of sanctuary, but possibly because the man was trying to arrest a consort of the boys.

Scroggs continued in his poor treatment of Catholic priests who came before him for trial, as he showed when he sentenced Andrew Bromwich to death at Stafford in the summer of 1679, however his proposing the Duke of York's health at the Lord Mayor's dinner a few months later in the presence of Shaftesbury indicated his determination not to support the Exclusionists against the known wishes of the king. At the opening of the Michaelmas Term he delivered a speech on the need for judicial independence: " the people ought to be pleased with public justice and not justice seek to please the people .... neither for my part do I think we live in so corrupted an age that no man can with safety be just and follow his own conscience.

Bedloe wrote a Narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish Plot ( 1679 ), but all his statements are extremely untrustworthy. The Marchioness of Worcester, whose husband was the target of some of Bedloe's accusations called him " a man whose whole life has been a parade of villainy and whose word would not have been taken at sixpence ".

— The 1679 Nevanlinna main belt asteroid is named after him.

Then, in 1679, based on these concepts, an associate of Boyle's named Denis Papin built a steam digester, which was a closed vessel with a tightly fitting lid that confined steam until a high pressure was generated.

In 1631, army officer John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ( 1604 – 1679 ), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent pond named Hofvijver ( English: " Court's Pond ") in the The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic.

An expedition led by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle named it Lac Sainte-Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

An expedition led by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle named it Lac Sainte-Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

An expedition led by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle named it Lac Sainte-Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Chartered in 1679 as a parish of Portsmouth, it was incorporated in 1693 and named New Castle after the fort.

Ōtomari was established in 1679, and cartographers of the Matsumae domain mapped the island, and named it “ Kita-Ezo ”.

This site was previously used by La Salle for a fort named Fort Conti from 1678 to 1679, and was later used for Fort Niagara, which still exists to this day.

Talbot was a godson of King Charles II, after whom he was named, and he was brought up as a Roman Catholic, but in 1679 under the influence of John Tillotson he became a member of the Church of England.

The town was founded in 1679 by the Governor of the Cape Colony, Simon van der Stel, who named it after himself — Stellenbosch means "( van der ) Stel's Bush ".

The genus is named after the Florentine botanist Pietro Antonio Micheli ( 1679 – 1737 ).

This site was previously used by La Salle for a fort named Fort Conti from 1678 to 1679, and was later used for Fort Niagara, which still exists to this day.

Parish registers indicate that the second Earl, named either George or Mountjoy, died at Newport House in London, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields in March 1675 ; his brother Thomas, the third Earl, was buried at Weyhill in May 1675 ; and their youngest brother Henry was buried at Great Harrowden ( home of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Knollys ) in September 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.

In 1679, he wrote some songs for John Playford's Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues and also an anthem, the name of which is not known, for the Chapel Royal.

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

* 1679 – John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( b. 1616 )

* June 17 – John Maurice of Nassau, count of Nassau-Siegen ( d. 1679 )

** John Leverett, colonial magistrate ( d. 1679 )

** Don John of Austria the Younger, soldier ( d. 1679 )

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.

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 ..."

According to John Locke, who writes, in 1679: " The sports of England for a curious stranger to see are horse-racing, hawking, hunting, and bowling ; at Putney he may see several persons of quality bowling two or three times a week.

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

* John Balch House ( c. 1679 )

believed that it refers to “ Jessup ’ s Point ” granted to John Jessup in 1679.

* Sir John Brownlow I ( 1594 – 1679 ) Bequeathed Belton to his great-nephew John Brownlow II.

** John of Austria the Younger ( 7 April 1629 17 September 1679 )

The alleyway beside the pub was the scene of an attack on John Dryden in 1679 by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict.

Though she was exiled by the king's illegitimate half-brother John of Austria the Younger, she returned to the court after John's death in 1679.

Close by are the burial of many other eminent nonconformists such as the ministers Dr John Owen ( d. 1683 ) and Dr Goodwin ( d. 1679 ).

* Saint John Lloyd ( died 1679 ), one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

* John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor ( 24 October 1679 – 24 August 1684 )

* John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester-A Satire Against Mankind ( published 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 )

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

Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) also wrote on rhetoric.

* Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) English philosopher, who wrote Leviathan, a key text in political philosophy.

* April 5 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher ( d. 1679 )

* April 5 – Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher ( d. 1679 )

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

Thomas was recalled in 1665 to become Governor of Jersey, and died in St. Helier in April 1679.

Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) defined power as a man's " present means, to obtain some future apparent good " ( Leviathan, Ch.

The family produced a number of notable figures, including Thomas Parnell ( 1679 – 1718 ), the Irish poet and Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton ( 1776 – 1842 ) the Irish politician.

Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas or Bossuet in his Discourse On Universal History ( 1679 ) formulated such theodicies, but Leibniz, who coined the term, was the most famous philosopher who created a theodicy.

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil — commonly referred to as Leviathan — is a book written by Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) and published in 1651.

On 31 May 1679 orders were given to replace the west side with four new buildings three storeys high, which were funded by the Treasurer ( Thomas Hanmer ) and the tenants at the time, including Judge Jeffreys.

** Thomas Blount ( lexicographer ) ( died 1679 )

* Sir Thomas Chicheley 1670 – 1679

The new parliament met on 6 March 1679, and on 25 March, Shaftesbury delivered a dramatic address in the House of Lords in which he warned of the threat of popery and arbitrary government ; denounced the royal administration in Scotland under John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale and Ireland under James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde ; and loudly denounced the policies of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby in England.

* Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 )

The Hastings family, descendants of English Puritan immigrant Thomas Hastings, was originally settled at Watertown, but within a generation members of the family had relocated to Hatfield, where they produced a succession of Hatfield physicians, including Dr. Thomas Hastings ( 1652 – 1712 ); Dr. Thomas Hastings ( 1679 – 1728 ); Dr. Waitstill Hastings ( 1714 – 1748 ); and Dr. John Hastings ( 1765 – 1845 ).

Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) included a discussion of natural rights in his moral and political philosophy.