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| c. 1675 |
| | | Dutch traders purchase Kakiemon wares in Japan for import to the Netherlands | |
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| 1675 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, now develops the hairspring - of great future importance in watches | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | The double-hung sash window is introduced in England and soon spreads to Holland | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | The house of West Hall is built for let, probably by Thomas Juxon, lord of the manor, to be followed by the house of Brick Farm | |
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| 1675 |
| | | A sudden uprising by the Wampanoag Indians against the new England settlements begins the conflict known as King Philip's War | |
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| 1676 |
| | | Ole Roemer, a Danish astronomer working with Cassini in Paris, calculates the speed of light with an error of only 25% | |
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| 1677 |
| | | John Bunyan is imprisoned again, for about six months, in a new wave of persecution of Nonconformists | |
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| 1677 |
| | | With his powerful new microscope Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa in the semen of a dog | |
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| c. 1677 |
| | | Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, dealing with God, the mind and the emotions, is published shortly after his death | |
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| 1677 |
| | | Wren completes Monument to commemorate Fire | |
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