Mar 15 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence

Mar 17 England declares war on Netherlands

Feb 23 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam

Feb 08 Isaac Newton reads first optics paper before Royal Society in London

Dec 23 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn

Dec 10 New York Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston

May 17 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)

May 06 Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands

May 30 The birth of Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia

May 15 The first copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

Jun 25 First recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass

Jun 09 The birth of Peter The Great, Tsar Of Russia

Jan 01 Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris

Jan 11 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society