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World History Timeline - 1670
Les Invalides is founded in Paris by Louis XIV as a housing project for disabled veterans.
French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal writes Pensees, which includes the passage "What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty!"
A large peasant revolt rises in Russia but is squelched by Czar Alexis.
Rice is introduced to South Carolina from Madagascar but will not be a trading resource for years, as people lack the information for its cultivation.
Puritans found Charleston, named for King Charles II of English, in the Carolina colony.
The English tradition of wearing wigs in court is imported from France by King Charles II.
A French attempt to overtake Amsterdam is thwarted when William III of Orange floods the city.
In Edo, the Aragato style of performance is coined by Kabuki actor Sannjuro Ichikawa.
War between England and the Netherlands ends with the Treaty of Westminster, in which Dutch colonies cede to England.
Physiological discoveries continue as Dutchman Anton van Leeuwenhoek develops a simple microscope that enables him to describe red blood corpuscles, and Lorenzo Bellini discovers the presence of excretory ducts in the kidneys.
In English Restoration theater, poet laureate John Dryden writes The Mistaken Husband,, George Etherage writes The Man of Mode, and William Wycherley pens The Country Wife.
Russian Czar Alexis Mikhailovich dies and is succeeded by his disfigured son, Fedor II.
The famous Observatory in Greenwich, England, is founded for astronomical research; the observatory also establishes a standard time to help determine longitude.
Louis Hennepin, a French missionary explorer, discovers Niagara Falls.
Nearly 80,000 people die of the Black Plague in Vienna.
In London, the Habeas Corpus Act ensures that no prisoner shall be jailed for the same offense twice.
The strictness of English trade laws become a matter of contention in the colonies, leading to protests such as the Carolina colony's Culpeper Rebellion.
The scientific revolution continues as physicist Denis Papin proves that water's boiling point depends on pressure.
Japanese Tokugawan shogun Itsuna dies and is succeeded by his brother Tsunayoshi.
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