It was first opened as a port during the 1680s.

The area was first settled in the 1680s as Peagscomsuck, consisting mainly of land north of Norwich, south of New Roxbury, Massachusetts ( now Woodstock, Connecticut ) and west of the Quinebaug River and the Plainfield Settlement.

It was one of the first townships in Pennsylvania, founded in the late 1680s.

The area was incorporated into France for the first time in the 1680s.

The first Acadians to settle in present day Hants County ( known as Pisiguit ) established farms at ( present day Falmouth ) in the early 1680s, as the 1686 census shows a number of families on well established farms utilizing dyked pastures.

Built in the 1680s in the Baroque style in line with J. M. Link's design, St. Catherine's Church was first dedicated to St. Peter from Alkantara whereas in the 1920s the church became an academic church dedicated to St. Catherine.

The earliest traffic up the Missouri likely occurred in the 1680s by unlicensed fur traders ; the first known ascent occurred in 1693, and within a decade, more than a hundred traders were moving along the Mississippi and Missouri.

By the 1680s this led to the land in ownership largely coinciding with the collective ' dùthchas ' for the first time.

Her so-called " reign " lasted from around 1667, when she first danced with Louis XIV at a ball hosted by the king's younger brother, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, at the Louvre, until her alleged involvement in the notorious Affaire des Poisons in the late 1670s to 1680s.

None of the historical German states had overseas colonies, so not until the 1680s did the first significant groups of German immigrants arrive in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York and Pennsylvania.

Adyar and the neighbouring Guindy had been used as hunting grounds by British officials of Fort St. George from the 1680s onwards though Adyar is first mentioned as a suburb of Madras only in a map from the year 1740 when the British purchased the village and integrated it with the Madras Presidency.

Having migrated from Port Royal, Nova Scotia, the Acadians first settled the area in the early 1680s as the 1686 census lists a number of familes on well established farms utilizing productive dyked fields.

The Combahee area was first settled in the 1680s.

An adept politician, he served in virtually every government through the period of turmoil in Massachusetts that encompassed the revocation of its first charter in 1684 and the introduction of its second charter in 1692, including the unpopular rule of Sir Edmund Andros in the late 1680s.

The first major historically recorded drought in the Sahel occurred around 1640, and a major drought after generally wet conditions occurred, based on the reports of European travellers, during the 1680s.

Much of this lunar work of Newton's was done in the 1680s, and the extent and accuracy of his first steps in the gravitational analysis was limited by several factors, including his own choice to develop and present the work in what was, on the whole, a difficult geometrical way, and by the limited accuracy and uncertainty of many astronomical measurements in his time.

Other pioneers soon followed ; during the 1670s and 1680s families arrived that would form the backbone of the town: They were the Mains, Miners, Wheelers, Browns, Palmers, Hewitts, and Averys, to name a few.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s.

In subsequent years, Wren continued with his work with the Royal Society, although after the 1680s his scientific interests seem to have waned: no doubt his architectural and official duties absorbed more time.

Others, including Robert Boyle and his assistant, Godfrey Haukweicz, continued these experiments in the 1680s with phosphorus and sulfur, but their efforts did not produce practical and inexpensive methods for generating fires.

The word polecat ( with pole-from either the French poule " chicken " or puant " stinking "), which in Europe refers to the wild relatives of the ferret, has been attested in the New World to refer to the animal since the 1680s.

In the 1680s the hall was renovated, with a raised floor to accommodate a wine cellar below and a reconstructed roof.

German became the second most widely spoken language in the U. S. starting with mass emigration from the German Palatinate and adjacent areas, to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, though there had been some immigration as far back as the 1680s.

In the 17th century, the Dutch, English, and after the 1680s the French, competed for the opportunity to trade with the island of Phuket ( then known as Junkseilon ), which was a very rich source of tin.

Entering the 1680s, the Marathas came into conflict with the Siddis, an African-descended Muslim peoples who held the fortified island of Janjira.

Sometime in the 1680s, reef-bands were introduced to tie up part of the sail, with topsails eventually getting four of these, and reefing the sails became a regular occupation of sailors.

His marriage to Anne was arranged in the early 1680s with a view to developing an Anglo-Danish alliance to contain Dutch maritime power.

The county facilities in the bailey were expanded during these years, with improvements to the Grand Jury House and the Common Hall, but by the 1680s the role of the military garrison at York Castle was being called into question.

Most towers were originally crowned with wooden tents ; the extant brick tents with strips of colored tiles go back to the 1680s.

From the 1680s until 1760 the province was often on the front lines of military conflicts with New France and the indigenous Abenaki people, seeing major attacks on its communities in King William's War, Dummer's War, and King George's War.

During a stay in Parma, where he studied with Giuseppe Corso detto Celano, he formed his sacred music style ; most of his psalm settings of the 1680s and 1690s show the influence of Corso.

Work started on the current fort in 1670 but was conducted slowly, often with the use of pressed labour from nearby towns, and was still continuing in the 1680s.

At the time of the Spanish and French encounter with the Hasinai in the 1680s the Hasinai were a centrally organized chiefdom under the control of a religious leader known as the Grand Xinesi.

Button making ( buttony ) developed in the 1680s in the villages with Blandford the main centre.

Rising from a lowly page at the court of the House of Stuart, he served James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political advancement through his courage and diplomatic skill.

The Dominion of New England was imposed as a unifying government on the colonies between the Delaware River and Penobscot Bay by King James II in the 1680s, and was dissolved in 1689.

A similar Irish Catholic monarchist movement emerged in the 1680s and 90s, when Irish Catholic Jacobites supported James II after his deposition in the Glorious Revolution.

Ashmole's health began to deteriorate in the 1680s and, though he would hold his excise office throughout the reign of James II and retained it after the Glorious Revolution until his death, he became much less active in affairs.

The novel intertwines a number of real events into the story such as the massacre of the Mamluk beys by Muhammad Ali in 1811 and the failed rebellion by James, Duke of Monmouth against James II in the 1680s.

James had given them some concrete concessions in the 1680s by appointing an Irish Catholic, Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell as Lord Deputy of Ireland, and by re-admitting Catholics as Army officers and into other public offices.

Leisler's Rebellion, an uprising in which militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of lower New York from 1689 to 1691, occurred in the midst of England's " Glorious Revolution " and reflected colonial resentment against King James II, who in the 1680s decreed the formation of New York, New Jersey and the Dominion of New England as royal colonies, with New York City designated as the capital.