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 ".

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.

However when it met in October 1680 an Exclusion Bill was introduced and passed without major resistance in the Commons but was rejected in the Lords.

George in 1680, when he was Prince of Hanover.

Johann Georg succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony when he died, in 1680 ; he was also appointed Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

It wasn't until 600 years later that Giordano Vitale made an advance on Khayyám in his book Euclide restituo ( 1680, 1686 ), when he used the quadrilateral to prove that if three points are equidistant on the base AB and the summit CD, then AB and CD are everywhere equidistant.

In 1680, New Castle was conveyed to William Penn by the Duke of York and was Penn's landing place when he first set foot on American soil on October 27, 1682.

1680 ) the oldest building in town, legend says when Penn first stepped foot on American soil, he walked to this house, where his friend and local magistrate lived, and spent the night.

The Park originally included the demesne of Kilmainham Priory south of the River Liffey, but when the building of the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham commenced in 1680, the Park was reduced to its present size, all of which is now north of the river.

The Viennoiserie technique was already mentioned in the late 17th century, when La Varenne's Le Cuisinier françois gave a recipe for it in the 1680 – and possibly earlier – editions.

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.

Malebranche expanded on this last point in 1680 when he published Treatise on Nature and Grace.

As a major Bavarian settlement, the town played an outstanding role in the Bavarian uprising against the Austrian occupation during the War of the Spanish Succession, when it hosted the Braunau Parliament, a provisional Bavarian Parliament in 1705 headed by Georg Sebastian Plinganser ( born 1680 in Pfarrkirchen ; died 7 May 1738 in Augsburg ).

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.

This situation was permanently resolved in 1680 when York renounced in favor of Penn his remaining claims to West Jersey.

* Captain Charles Calvert ( 1680 – 1734 ), Governor of Maryland in 1720, at a time when the Calvert family had recently regained control of their proprietary colony.

The first British use of the term was around 1680 and was applied to the senior sergeant in the colonel's company of an infantry regiment, but it wasn't formalised until 1797, when the sergeant major was added to the battalion or regimental staff.

Although for a time between 1680 and 1730, Barnstaple's trade was surpassed by Bideford, it retained its economic importance until the early 20th century, when it was manufacturing lace, gloves, sail-cloth and fishing-nets, it had extensive potteries, tanneries, sawmills and foundries, and shipbuilding was also carried on.

Returning to Scotland in 1680, Cargill drafted a declaration of principles, contained in the document known as The Queensferry Paper which fell into government hands on 4 June when he narrowly escaped arrest at an inn in the town of Queensferry.

But these efforts were finally abandoned around 1680, when funds were exhausted.

Government local posts go back to at least 1680, when the Penny Post was established in London to handle intra-city mail delivery at a uniform rate of one penny.

In 1680 Lord Rothes was further honoured when he was made Lord Auchmotie and Caskieberry, Viscount of Lugtoun, Earl of Leslie, Marquess of Bambreich and Duke of Rothes, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body.

They remained there until 1680 when the Pueblo Revolt occurred and the Hopi expelled the Spanish from the region.

While with the court at the Hague, he incurred the displeasure of William by insisting that a promise of marriage, made to an English lady of high birth by a relative of the prince, should be kept ; and he therefore gladly returned to England in 1680, when he was immediately appointed one of the king's chaplains.

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

During the crisis concerning the Exclusion Bill in 1680, Charles at first invited William to come to England to bolster the king's position against the exclusionists, then withdrew his invitation — after which Lord Sunderland also tried unsuccessfully to bring William over but now to put pressure on Charles.

Eventually in the year 1680 the Rio Grande Pueblo Indians put forward the suggestion to revolt and garnered Hopi support.

His request was granted based on his parents and grandparents having farmed this area prior to the revolt in 1680 ( given twenty per generation that would put the " founding " of Agua Fria circa 1640 ; source: All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, 400th Anniversary Celebration book, page 42 ).

In 1680 he was put in charge of an expedition sent to relieve the town of Tangier.

In 1680, Charles Blount, a radical English deist, published the first English translation of the first two books of Philostratus ' Life with an anti-Church

* November 14 – The Great Comet of 1680 is first sighted.

The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses.

Mithridates, King of Pontus ( acted 1678 ), Theodosius, or the Force of Love ( acted 1680 ), Caesar Borgia ( acted 1680 ), an imitation of the worst blood and thunder Elizabethan tragedies: Lucius Junius Brutus, Father of His Country ( acted 1681 ), and Constantine the Great ( acted 1684 ) followed.

Lured by native stories of the Western or Vermilion Sea ( likely the Great Salt Lake in Utah ), he reached the Mississippi River via the Saint Croix River in 1680 and then headed back to Fort de Buade, where he heard that jealous Quebec merchants and the intendant Jacques Duchesneau de la Doussinière et d ' Ambault were slandering him.

* In 1675, Jacques Marquette founded a mission at the Great Village of the Illinois tribe, near present Utica, Illinois, which was destroyed by Iroquois in 1680.

The Great Comet of 1680 was a sungrazer and while used by Newton to verify Kepler's equations on orbital motion, it was not a member of any larger groups.

The French settlements in the Pays d ' en Haut south of the Great Lakes were Fort Niagara ( 1678 ), Fort Crevecoeur ( 1680 ), Fort Saint Antoine ( 1686 ), Fort St. Joseph ( 1691 ), Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit ( 1701 ), Fort Michilimackinac ( 1715 ), Fort Miami ( 1715 ), Fort La Baye ( 1717 ), and Fort Beauharnois ( 1727 ).

* Great Comet of 1680

The first Rumyantsev to gain prominence, Alexander Ivanovich ( 1680 – 1749 ), served as ordinary of Peter the Great in the Preobrazhensky regiment.

The first comet whose orbit had been found to take it extremely close to the Sun was the Great Comet of 1680.

One of the most beautiful churches in Moscow, St Nicholas Church on the Ilyinka ( 1680 – 89 ), informally known as the Great Cross, was a landmark in Kitay-gorod but was destroyed in 1933.