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| 1678 |
| | | The Popish Plot, an invented Jesuit conspiracy to kill Charles II, results in the execution of about thirty-five Roman Catholics | |
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| 1678 |
| | | Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress, written during John Bunyan's two spells in Bedford Gaol, is published and is immediately popular | |
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| 1678 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens expounds the theory that light consists of a vibration forming a ripple of waves | |
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| 1679 |
| | | The rival political parties in Britain find abusive names for each other - Whigs and Tories | |
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| 1679 |
| | | The tower of St Mary's Church is rebuilt in red brick, replacing one of flint and stone | |
|  | View of old St Mary's Church, c.1800
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| 1679 |
| | | 19-year-old Alessandro Scarlatti has a great success in Rome with Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, the first of his 115 operas | |
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| c. 1680 |
| | | The English clockmaker Thomas Tompion is the first to make successful use of the hairspring in pocket watches | |
|  | Pocket watch by Tompion
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| 1680 |
| | | Feudal labour laws demanding corvée (compulsory unpaid labour) are imposed by the Habsburgs on the Czech peasants of Bohemia | |
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| c. 1680 |
| | | Louis XIV persecutes the Huguenots by means of dragonnades - the billetting of unruly dragoons in the homes of villagers | |
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| 1680 |
| | | The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rise against the Spanish, killing 21 missionaries and some 400 colonists | |
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