Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.

Landau was later occupied by the French from 1680 to 1815, when it was one of the Décapole, the ten free cities of Alsace, and received its modern fortifications by Louis XIV's military architect Vauban in 1688 – 99, making the little city ( population in 1789 was still only approximately 5, 000 ) one of Europe's strongest citadels.

* 1643 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist ( d. 1680 )

* March 25 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist ( d. 1680 )

In 1680, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built the first fort in Illinois, Ft. St. Louis, at Starved Rock.

** Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1680 – 1735 ), his son, Duke Louis Rudolph's son-in-law and successor

Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux ( January 27, 1615 – March 23, 1680 ) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV.

# Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine ( 1617 – 1680 ); married Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel, had issue ; Marie Luise von Degenfeld, had issue ; Elisabeth Hollander von Bernau, had issue

# Charles Louis ( 1617 – 1680 ), became Elector Palatine in 1648

1680 ); for the affair of Val-de-Grâce, Catalogue de documents historiques ... relatifs au règne de Louis XIII ( Paris, 1847 ); also R Kerviler, Le Chancelier P. Séguier ( Paris, 1874 ).

In 1680, the falls became known to the Western world when they were observed and published in a journal by Father Louis Hennepin, a Catholic friar of Belgian birth, who also first published about Niagara Falls to the world's attention.

Among his other best-known works, in Paris, are the Pont-Royal, the Église Saint-Roch, the Invalides great domed royal chapel Église du Dôme des Invalides dedicated to Saint Louis ( designed in 1680 )

By 1680 the disputed County of Montbéliard ( lying between Franche-Comté and Alsace ) had been separated from the Duchy of Württemberg, and by August Louis XIV had secured the whole of Alsace with the exception of Strasbourg.

The Château de Clagny in Versailles was built between 1674 and 1680 from the drawings of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Premier architecte du Roi, ( First architect of the King ), on land bought by Louis XIV in 1665.

Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as " La Voisin " ( c. 1640 – February 22, 1680 ), was a French fortune teller, poisoner and an alleged sorceress, one of the chief personages in the affaire des poisons, during the reign of Louis XIV.

Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center ( there were no garden plots until 1680 ).

At Rotterdam Bayle published his famous Pensées diverses sur la comète de 1680 in 1682, as well as his critique of Louis Maimbourg's work on the history of Calvinism.

French missionaries used the area for many years, including Jean de Brébeuf and Joseph Chaumonot in 1641, Louis Hennepin in 1678, and Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle in 1680.

It was built as a fortress in 1680 and named after Louis XIV of France.

In 1680, Louis XIV of France gave order to build a fortification ( to defend the new French Eastern frontier ) on the banks of the river Saar which was called Sarre-Louis.

Field Marshal John ( Jean Louis ) Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, KB, PC ( 7 November 1680 – 28 April 1770 ) was a French-born British soldier.

Germ theory developed slowly: despite Anton van Leeuwenhoek's observations of Microorganisms, ( which are now known to cause many of the most common infectious diseases ) in the year 1680, the modern era of public health did not begin until the 1880s, with Louis Pasteur's germ theory and production of artificial vaccines.

Louis Moréri ( March 25, 1643 – July 10, 1680 ) was a French priest and encyclopaedist.

In 1680 he married Marie Anne de Bourbon, the illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV and his first mistress, Louise de La Vallière.

1680 – 1702, also known as Michel Accault ) was a French explorer who, along with René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin, explored the Mississippi River in 1679.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

Between 1680 and 1725, Madagascar became a pirate stronghold.

This later became part of Pennsylvania after it was established in 1680.

By 1680, the settlement was known as Hampton, and it was incorporated as a town in 1705 and became the seat of Elizabeth City County.

The Royal Swedish Navy was improved with the founding of the Karlskrona naval base in 1680, that became the navy's stronghold since then.

Robert Taft, Sr., settled here, in the part that became Uxbridge, in 1680 and was the patriarch of the famous Taft family.

In 1687 Blow became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral ; in 1695 he was elected organist of St Margaret's, Westminster, and is said to have resumed his post as organist of Westminster Abbey, from which in 1680 he had retired or been dismissed to make way for Purcell.

* At the Riksdag in 1680 a large scale reduction ( a return of lands to the Crown earlier granted to the nobility ) was enacted, and Sweden became an absolute monarchy.

On the death of his father on 30 July 1680 he became Baron Butler in the English peerage and Earl of Ossory by courtesy.

It became a part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg in the 10th century and remained so until 1680, when Brandenburg-Prussia annexed it together with Magdeburg as the Duchy of Magdeburg, while it was also an important location for Martin Luther's Reformation with Albert of Mainz as his ecclesiastic counterpart.

His son Sir William Waller also became MP for Westminster in 1680.

The town of Hampton, established in 1680, became the largest city in Elizabeth City County, and was the county seat.

He became a brigadier ten years later, maréchal de camp in 1680, and lieutenant-general 1688.

In 1680 the area of the district became part of Brandenburg, and the Holzkreis roughly covering the area of the Ohrekreis was created.

* John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe ( c. 1680 – 1741 ), 2nd son of the 3rd Earl, became Duke of Roxburghe in 1707

He stayed at Wilna until 1666, then became rabbi in Kėdainiai and several other Lithuanian towns, was called in 1670 as rabbi to Altona and Hamburg, and in 1680 to Zolkiev.

Charles II awarded the post to Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray, and Middleton became envoy to the imperial court in Vienna in June 1680 to forge an alliance with Leopold I. Middleton returned to Scotland in July 1681 and became favoured by James Stuart, Duke of York ( later James II & VII ) and his wife Mary.

The Duke had no sons and on his death in 1681 the creations of 1680 became extinct.

This work claimed his attention from 1665 to 1680, and established his reputation: Perrault ’ s Colonnade overlooking the Quai du Louvre became widely celebrated.

He died without heirs in 1680, when the title became extinct.

John Cabot ( b. 1680 in Jersey ) and his son, Joseph Cabot ( b. 1720 in Salem ), became highly successful merchants, operating a fleet of privateers carrying opium, rum, and slaves.

( The Baptists ' time in Boston did not last — they were thrown out in 1680 after Simon Bradstreet became governor.