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| 1680 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes The Life and Death of Mr Badman, an allegory of a misspent life that is akin to a novel | |
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| 1680 |
| | | A comet intrigues Edmund Halley, who works out that it has been around before | |
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| 1682 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes The Holy War, an allegory of the devil laying siege to the human soul | |
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| 1685 |
| | | James II succeeds to the throne in Britain and immediately introduces pro-Catholic policies | |
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| c. 1685 |
| | | Denis Papin, a French scientist working in England, demonstrates a pressure cooker fitted with a safety valve | |
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| 1686 |
| | | English naturalist John Ray begins publication of his Historia Plantarum, classifying some 18,600 plants in 'mutual fertility' species | |
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| 1687 |
| | | Newton publishes Principia Mathematica, proving gravity to be a constant in all physical systems | |
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| 1688 |
| | | A son (the future 'Old Pretender') is born to James II, giving Britain a Catholic heir to the throne | |
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| 1688 |
| | | Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade | |
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| 1688 |
| | | English grandees invite William III of Orange and his wife Mary, daughter of James II, to claim the British throne | |
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