History
1680
General
Population: 600 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Thomas Otway, Robert Filmer (power of kings), Cesar Pierre Richelet (French dictionary), Sir William Temple (government)
Music includes Stradivari makes his earliest known cello
- Exploration: "The Flying Dutchman” ship lost in Indian Ocean nearing South Africa
- Fashion: End of high Baroque period
- Science: Final extinction of the dodo (family Raphidae)
- Technology: Clocks begin to have minute hand
- Deaths: Sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Satirist Samuel Butler, Author François de la Rochefoucauld, Artist Sir Peter Lely,
Philosopher Joseph Glanvill, Naturalist Jan Swammerdam
Africa
- General: Portuguese driven into Zambezi valley and eastward
- Dahomey: Akaba becomes king of Dahomey
- Mauritius: Last dodo killed
- West Africa: Rise of Asante Kingdom
First Brandenburgian expedition to West Africa
- Zimbabwe: Butua kingdom flourishes
Americas
- General: Franch colonial empire reaching from Quebec to mouth of Mississippi River founded
- Dominican Republic: Hurricane hits
- Martinique: Hurricane in Martinique – second in Santo Domingo sinking 25 French warships
Asia
- China: Emperor K'ang-His founds factories for development of art
- Japan: Tsunayoshi becomes shogun
Europe
- England: Sir Christopher Wren makes St. Clement Danes in London
Henry Purcell made organist of Westminster Abbey
Sadler's Wells at Islington begins musical entertainments
Penny post established in London by merchant William Dockwra
- France: Comédie Français formed
Jules Hardouin Mansart creates Chapel des Invalides in Paris
Chambers of Reunion established by Louis XIV of France to annex territory – France occupies Strasbourg Luxemburg and Lorraine by 1683
- German States: Maximilian II Emanuel becomes Elector of Bavaria
First ballets arrive in Germany from France
- Portugal: Portugal bans enslavement of Brazilian natives
- Sweden: Absolutism in Sweden under King Charles XI
Pacific
- Easter Island: Statue building ends on Easter Island as civil war begins
West and Pacific
- New Mexico: Pueblo Revolt as 380 Spanish killed including half of all Catholic priests and others driven from New Mexico