In contrast to the rest of France, there was a relative religious tolerance, although the French authorities tried to promote Catholicism ; Strasbourg Cathedral, for example, which had been Lutheran from 1524 to 1681, was returned to the Catholic Church.

The Triumph of Love ( 1681 ) is a mere ballet, but in Persée ( 1682 ) and Phaëton ( 1683 ) Quinault returned to the classical opera.

Sacheverell was one of the managers on behalf of the Commons at the trial of Lord Stafford in Westminster Hall ; but took no further part in public affairs till after the elections of March 1681, when he was returned unopposed for Derbyshire.

" After they returned, Joliet used the name " Miskonsing " on a map that he drew in 1674, and when the news of their voyage was first published in 1681 the book's author, Melchisedec Thevenot, called it the " Mescousin " River.

Halifax retired to Rufford again in January 1681, but was present at the Oxford parliament, and in May returned suddenly to public life and held for a year the chief control of affairs.

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.

He returned to England and life as a highwayman in 1681.

The Nonsuch then returned to England and was paid off on 9 November 1681.

Ultimately Vieira returned to Portugal with a papal bull exempting him from the jurisdiction of the grand inquisitor, and in January 1681 he embarked for Brazil.

In 1681, Cignani returned to Bologna from Parma.

Vitus Jonassen Bering ( baptised 5 August 1681 in Horsens, Denmark – 8 December 1741 on Bering Island, Russia ) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy as ( eventually Captain-Komandor ) Витус Ионассен Беринг, known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich Bering.

Vitus Bering was born in the port town of Horsens in Denmark to Anne Pedderdatter Bering and her husband Jonas Svendsen ( a " customs inspector and churchwarden "), being baptised in the Lutheran church there on 5 August 1681.

John Robartes ' eldest son, Robert, was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and died there in February 1682.

His Voyage de Flandre et de Hollande, commencé le 26 avril 1681. reporting his trip through the Low Countries, Denmark and Sweden, where he dallied at the courts of Christian V and Charles XI and then north to Lapland, returning through Poland, Hungary and Germany to France, is mined by social historians.

His policy at first was to retain the territory annexed by the chambers of reunion without declaring war, and for this purpose he signed treaties of alliance with the elector of Brandenburg ( 1681 ), and with Denmark ( 1683 ); but the troubles following upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 1685 ) forced him to give up his scheme and to prepare for war with Germany ( 1688 ).

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

It was indeed a superstitious age, but made much more so by their operations, influence, and writings, beginning with Increase Mather's movement at the assembly of Ministers in 1681 and ending with Cotton Mather's dealings with the Goodwin children, and the account thereof which he printed and circulated far and wide.

Shortly thereafter, the first institutionalized ballet troupe, associated with the Academy, was formed ; this troupe began as an all-male ensemble but by 1681 opened to include women as well.

He was a leading member of the Duke of York's administration, was created a Lord of the Articles in June and in November 1681 Lord President of the Privy Council.

Georg Philipp Telemann ( 14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767 ) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

Henry Middleton was born in 1717 near Charleston, South Carolina to Arthur Middleton ( 1681 – 1737 ) and Susan Amory, on the family plantation, " The Oaks ".

( In November 1681, a pepper crop was being offered for sale by inhabitants.

The ban was revoked in 1681 by the English-appointed governor Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban on festivities on Saturday nights.

Jean Mabillon, a French Benedictine monk, scholar and antiquary, whose work De re diplomatica was published in 1681, is widely regarded as the founder of the twin disciplines of palaeography and diplomatics.

In 1681 he was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Innocent XI and was made Cardinal-Priest of thr Church of San Pancrazio in Rome.

It became the major tool of French colonialism in Senegal, but saddled with debt, it was dissolved 1681 and replaced by another that lasted until 1694, the date of creation of the Royal Company of Senegal, whose director, Andre Brue, would be captured by the Damel of Cay and released against ransom in 1701.

Year 1681 ( MDCLXXXI ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

The term ' Whig ' entered English political discourse during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 when there was controversy about whether or not King Charles II's brother, James, should be allowed to succeed to the throne on Charles's death.

Although he had suspected that two comets that had appeared in succession in 1680 and 1681 were the same comet before and after passing behind the Sun ( he was later found to be correct ; see Newton's Comet ), he was unable to completely reconcile comets into his model.

Pasquier Quesnel had been a member of the Parisian Oratory from 1657 to 1681, at which time he was expelled because of his Jansenism.

In 1681, Papin presented his invention to the Royal Society of London, but his invention was treated as a scientific study.

In 1921 the preserved severed head of Saint Oliver Plunkett, who was executed in London in 1681, was put on display in St. Peter's Church, where it remains today.

Count Rutger von Ascheberg ( June 2, 1621 – April 17, 1693 ) was a soldier, officer and civil servant in Swedish service, being appointed Lieutenant General in 1670, General in 1674, Field Marshal in 1678, Governor General of the Scanian provinces, in 1680, and Royal Councilor in 1681.

In January 1681 he was appointed to the sheriffships of Wigtown, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Annandale.

In 1681 he was appointed the official printer of the colony ; one of the first works he published was John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

In 1669 he became rector of St George's, Botolph Lane, London, and in 1681 he was appointed a prebendary of St Paul's.

A Frenchman, who was held captive in Morocco from 1670 to 1681, wrote: " In Fez and in Morocco is, Marrakesh, the Jews are separated from the inhabitants, having their own quarters set apart, surrounded by walls of which the gates are guarded by men appointed by the King ...

In early modern Europe, certain royal courts appointed official historians: these included the Rikshistoriograf in Sweden from 1618, the Historiographer Royal in England from 1660, and the Historiographer Royal in Scotland from 1681.

His son, Johann Jakob Hottinger ( 1652 – 1735 ), who became professor of theology at Zürich in 1698, was the author of a work against Roman Catholicism, Helvetische Kirchengeschichte ( 4 vols, 1698 – 1729 ); and his grandson, Johann Heinrich Hottinger ( 1681 – 1750 ), who in 1721 was appointed professor of theology at Heidelberg, wrote a work on dogmatics, Typus doctrinae christianae ( 1714 ).

* In 1681, he was appointed magister mechanicorum ( master of mechanics ) to the King for his work on the water system at Windsor.

He was appointed Lord Justice General in 1678, Lord Clerk Register in 1681 and was chief minister of the King in Scotland from 1682 to 1688.