By the time Orono was born, the Penobscot people had been in close contact with French Catholic missionaries and traders for over a generation, and Orono was himself of mixed ancestry, probably the grandson of Jean-Vincent d ' Abbadie de Saint-Castin, The 3rd Baron Castin, who had settled at the mouth of the Penobscot River ( the site of the present town of Castine, Maine ) in the 1660s.

His great-grandson, Miklós Zrínyi, poet and general became of the better known stratagems of 1660s.

Newton also clearly expressed the concept of linear inertia in the 1660s: for this Newton was indebted to Descartes ' work published 1644.

An artists impression of English polymath Robert Hooke ( 1635-1703 ) Hooke published his ideas about gravitation in the 1660s and again in 1674 ( see Robert Hooke-Gravitation ).

The London Gazette also claims this honour, having been published since the 1660s ; however, it is not now a newspaper in the usual sense.

Historical works were even more numerous: the chronicle of Heltai Gaspar ( see on the right ) published by him in Kolozsvar, Zay Ferenc's unpublished work on the siege of Beograd from the 15th century, Kemény János ', Transylvanian Duke's, and Bethlen Miklós ' memoirs with Szalárdy János ' volumeous, that time unpublished, work on contemporary Transylvanian history from the 17th century ( from Bethlen ' reign to 1660s ), and Cserei Mihály's work from the early 18th century highlights the Hungarian-language literature.

Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn ( 1640 – 1689 ), published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony.

By the early 1660s he had already published eight volumes, and had broken in to the elite world of opera, gaining his first performances in Venice in 1664.

As a historian, Hrushevsky authored the first detailed scholarly synthesis of Ukrainian history, his ten volume History of Ukraine-Rus, which was published in the Ukrainian language and covered the period from pre-history to the 1660s.

Britain Yearly Meeting, which until 1995 was known as London Yearly Meeting, grew out of various national and regional meetings of Friends in the 1650s and 1660s and has met annually in some form since 1668.

Jean-David Nau () ( c. 1635 – c. 1668 ), better known as François l ' Olonnais (), was a French pirate, active in the Caribbean during the 1660s.

A major part of the king's painting collection was acquired in 1660s, by way of Hendrick van Uylenburgh, an agent in Amsterdam, and later his son Gerrit van Uylenburgh.

In the 1650s and 1660s, the Flemish sculptor Artus I Quellinus, along with his family and followers like Rombout Verhulst, were responsible for the classicizing decorations for the Amsterdam city hall ( now the Royal Palace, Amsterdam ).

The " Fur Wars " soon see the Hurons and Algonquins, supported by the French, pitted against the Iroquois of the powerful League of Five Nations, who were supported first by New Netherland, and later by the English when they took New Amsterdam in the 1660s and 1670s, renaming it New York City.

Its blue, white, and orange bands represent the colors of the Dutch flag that flew over the city, then New Amsterdam, between the 1620s and 1660s.

They were produced in huge numbers, with over 400, 000 being sold in England annually by the 1660s.

In the late 1660s and early 1670s, Newton expanded Descartes ' ideas into a corpuscle theory of light, famously showing that white light, instead of being a unique colour, was really a composite of different colours that can be separated into a spectrum with a prism.

As well as providing a first-hand account of the Restoration, Pepys's diary is notable for its detailed accounts of several other major events of the 1660s, along with the lesser known Diary of John Evelyn.

His most significant remaining architectural work is the anatomical theatre, which was added to Gustavianum in the 1660s and crowned with the characteristic cupola for which the building is today known.

Surviving manuscripts of the 1660s also show Newton's interest in planetary motion and that by 1669 he had shown, for a circular case of planetary motion, that the force he called ' endeavour to recede ' ( now called centrifugal force ) had an inverse-square relation with distance from the center.

Newton himself had shown in the 1660s that for planetary motion under a circular assumption, force in the radial direction had an inverse-square relation with distance from the center.

Newton himself had shown in the 1660s that for planetary motion under a circular assumption, force in the radial direction had an inverse-square relation with distance from the center.

The Cherokees gave sanctuary to a band of Shawnee in the 1660s, but from 1710 to 1715 the Cherokee and Chickasaw, allied with the British, fought Shawnee, who were allied with the French, and forced them to move northward.

In the 1660s, The Shrew was adapted by John Lacy, an actor for Thomas Killigrew's King's Company, to make it better match with Fletcher's sequel.

During this time it gradually fell into disrepair, with most of the buildings dismantled to build nearby farmhouses in the 1660s, but leaving the solar tower intact.

Shakespeare ( in Richard II ) was familiar with the species in the 1590s, as was Evelyn in the early 1660s ( Sylva ), both around the time when Scots Pine was thought to become extinct in England, but when landowners were also beginning ornamental and forestry planting.

He worked throughout the 1660s and 1670 ’ s with his brother-in-law, des Groseilliers, on various trade and exploration voyages into the west of the continent.

It was improved from there to a short distance below Hereford by Sir William Sandys in the early 1660s with locks to enable vessels to pass weirs.

Ashley clashed with Clarendon throughout the 1660s, but Ashley refused to support the impeachment of Clarendon in 1667.

de Heem ( 1606-1684 ), Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, Glasses and Lobster, ( c. 1660s ), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

If you read the records of the Royal Society and what they were doing in the 1660s, it's clear that at a certain point, some of these people – and I think Hooke was one of them – became a little bit disgusted with themselves and began excusing themselves when one of these vivisections was going to happen.

During the 1660s this was the site of Teiaiagon, a permanent settlement of the Seneca used for trading with the Europeans.

A series of disasters in the late 1660s and 1670s discredited Charles II's governments, and powerful political interests ( including some who had been identified with the Parliamentary side in the Civil War ) began to agitate for a greater role of Parliament in government, coupled with more tolerance for Protestant dissenters.

They were produced in huge numbers, with over 400, 000 being sold in England annually by the 1660s.

Until the 1660s the collars were high, then gradually they became lower and with open, rounded corners.

The Navigation Acts passed in the 1660s were widely disliked, since merchants often found themselves trapped and at odds with the rules.

Frescobaldi ’ s music did not lose direct influence until the 1660s, and his works held influence over the development of keyboard music over a century after his death.

Its business activities included saltworks ( in the 1660s, it owned 54 of them ), seafood production, trapping, fishery, mica works, ironworks, pearl works etc., which engaged a large population in the area.

The sub-genre of heroic drama evolved through several works of the middle to later 1660s ; John Dryden's The Indian Emperour ( 1665 ) and Roger Boyle's The Black Prince ( 1667 ) were key developments.

Although Pierre Corneille continued to produce tragedies until the end of his life, the works of Jean Racine from the late 1660s on totally eclipsed the late plays of the elder dramatist.

The two first male censuses was conducted during the 1660s and 1701.

During the latter part of the 1660s, the Portuguese tried to gain control of Kongo.

It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s.

It was not until the 1660s and 1670s that the microscope was used extensively for research in Italy, The Netherlands and England.

In the 1660s, a man named Thomas Walgensten used his so-called " lantern of fear " to summon ghosts.

Starting in the late 1660s she retired from her courtesan lifestyle and concentrated more on her literary friends — from 1667, she hosted her gatherings at l ' hôtel Sagonne, which was considered " the " location of the salon of Ninon de l ' Enclos despite other locales in the past.

For instance, the New York Sheriff's Office was founded in 1626, and the Albany County Sheriff's Department in the 1660s.

A Tudor fortress guarded the neck of water between the eastern Hoe and Mount Batten and some sheer granite and limestone cannon points remain, however in the late 1660s, following The Restoration, a massive star-shaped stone fortress known as the Royal Citadel, was constructed to replace it.

It is an important account of London in the 1660s.

The role was played in French as Arlequin in the 1660s by, who combined the zanni types, " making his Arlecchino witty, neat, and fluent in a croaking voice, which became as traditional as the squawk of Punch.

In the 1660s the Crown granted Soho Fields to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans.

Laudanum remained largely unknown until the 1660s when an English physician named Thomas Sydenham ( 1624-1689 ) compounded a proprietary opium tincture that he also named laudanum, although it differed substantially from the laudanum of Paracelsus.

He was in fact the most popular king England had known since the earlier 1660s.

In the 1660s Newton studied the motion of colliding bodies, and deduced that the centre of mass of two colliding bodies remains in uniform motion.

They also involved the combination of tangential and radial displacements, which Newton was making in the 1660s.

The 1660s saw the final collapse of Magdeburg's aim, to which von Guericke had devoted some twenty years of diplomatic effort, of achieving the status of a Free City within the Holy Roman Empire.