February 3 – Moroccan troops from Fez are killed, along with their commander Moussa ben Ahmed ben Youssef, in a battle against rebels in the
Jbel Saghro mountain range, but Moroccan Sultan
Ismail Ibn Sharif is able to negotiate a ceasefire allowing his remaining troops safe passage back home.
February 5 – The
Treaty of Celle is signed between France and Sweden on one side, and the Holy Roman Empire, at the town of
Celle in Saxony (in modern-day Germany). Sweden's sovereignty over
Bremen-Verden is confirmed and Sweden cedes control of
Thedinghausen and
Dörverden to the Germans.
March 12 –
Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin, commonly called "La Voisin" and the suspected killer of over 1,000 people in France by poisoning, is arrested outside of the Church of
Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle in
Paris and imprisoned at
Vincennes for the next 11 months. After her conviction, she is publicly burned at the stake on February 22, 1680.
April–June
April 3 –
Aurangazeb, the
Muslim ruler of the
Mughal Empire in
India, decrees the imposition of the
jizya, an annual tax upon non-Muslims under Mughal jurisdiction, primarily
Hindus. The tax had been abolished by Aurangazeb's great grandfather, Akbar.
April 8 – In the Italian region of
Piedmont, a landslide causes the village of
Bosia to sink into the ground and then get buried, killing 200 inhabitants. The village is then rebuilt at another site and continues to exist.
June 1 –
Battle of Drumclog: A group of 200 Scottish
Covenanters overwhelm a small Scottish Army unit, that had been pursuing them for the murder of Archbishop Sharp. The Covenanters, led by 19-year-old
William Cleland, kill 36 of the Scottish soldiers.
October 18 – A sea battle is fought between England's Royal Navy and the navy of India's
Maratha Empire (under the command of
Mai Nayak Bhandari), with English bombardment driving the Maratha occupation of the island fortress at
Khanderi (off of the western Indian coast south of
Mumbai).
November 27 – A fire in
Boston,
Massachusetts, burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards.
More than 200 captives on the ship The Crown of London, all Scottish
Covenanters arrested after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, are killed when the ship is wrecked on the
Orkney Islands while transporting the group to exile in North America.[3]
A peace treaty is signed between Ali Bey al-Muradi, Bey of Tunis; his brother whom he had overthrown in 1678,
Muhammad Bey al-Muradi; and their uncle, Muhammad al-Hafsi al-Muradi, the Pasha of Tunis, after mediation by the
Dey of Algiers.
December 16 (December 6 O.S.) –
Oliver Plunkett, the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, is arrested on false charges of plotting to aid a French invasion of the British Isles, the so-called "
Popish Plot". Executed in 1681, Plunkett will be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint almost 300 years later in 1975.
December 26 – In modern-day Indonesia, the
Trunajaya rebellion comes to an end with the surrender of Prince
Panembahan Maduretno to the Sultan
Amangkurat II of Mataram, ruler of the entire island of
Java. While treated with respect as a prisoner of the occupying forces of the
Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC), Panembahan is killed seven days later by Amangkurat after the VOC allows him to attend a ceremonial visit to the sultan's palace.