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| 1653 |
| | | The English admiral Robert Blake introduces a system of signalling at sea by means of flags | |
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| 1656 |
| | | John Bunyan engages in a fierce war of pamphlets with the Quakers, with whose doctrines he profoundly disagrees | |
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| 1660 |
| | | Monck persuades Charles II to sign, at Breda in Holland, a declaration of policies to heal the wounds of the Civil War | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Michiel de Ruyter sails up the Thames to destroy much of the English fleet at its base in the Medway | |
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| 1673 |
| | | Sébastien de Vauban's new technique for conducting the siege of a town shows its effectiveness at Maastricht | |
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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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| 1682 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes The Holy War, an allegory of the devil laying siege to the human soul | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The emperor, Leopold I, and his court abandon Vienna on the approach of a Turkish army | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The Turks are driven from the walls of Vienna by the Polish king John Sobieski, in what proves a historic turning point | |
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| 1690 |
| | | The armies of James II and William III confront each at the river Boyne, with victory going to William | |
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