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| 1666 |
| | | The Great Fire of London rages for four days, destroying 13,200 houses and 81 churches | |
|  | Loutherbourg Great Fire of London (detail) c.1799
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| c. 1670 |
| | | The Dutch develop a new pattern of middle-class urban life and architecture, later copied in England | |
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| 1674 |
| | | Samuel Sewall begins a diary of daily life in Boston, Massachusetts, that will span a period of more than fifty years | |
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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 |
| | | Ireland becomes the first European region in which the potato is an important food crop | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The Qing emperor orders all Chinese men to shave their heads, leaving only a long pigtail | |
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| 1692 |
| | | The Massachusetts town of Salem is gripped by witch-hunting hysteria | |
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| 1692 |
| | | Twenty people convicted of witchcraft are hanged in Salem, and one is pressed to death | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| 1746 |
| | | An earthquake destroys much of Lima, and an ensuing tidal wave engulfs its port at Callao | |
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