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| 1673 |
| | | Parliament in England passes a Test Act excluding Catholics and Nonconformists from public office | |
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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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| 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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| 1682 |
| | | William Penn approves the Great Law, allowing complete freedom of religious belief in Pennsylvania | |
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| 1683 |
| | | Mennonites and other from Germany (later known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) begin to settle in Penn's liberal colony | |
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| 1685 |
| | | James II succeeds to the throne in Britain and immediately introduces pro-Catholic policies | |
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| 1685 |
| | | 400,000 Huguenots leave France after Louis XIV deprives them of their rights by revoking the Edict of Nantes | |
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| 1689 |
| | | James II, landing in Ireland, is acclaimed as king in Dublin by enthusiastic Irish Catholics | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The Church of Scotland finally wins recognition as an independent Presbyterian body | |
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| 1699 |
| | | The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Rai, commits his people to the five Ks, which become the outward signs of their group identity | |
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