Significant Events
- May 27 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England
- Jul 12 Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court
1679 in Music
- Jan 31 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris
World Leaders in 1679
Charles II
King of England
Louis XIV
The Sun King of France
Famous People Born in 1679
- Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
- Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena (d. 1759)
- Jan 24 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher
- Jan 27 Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter
- Feb 14 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, born in Ostramondra, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1735)
Thomas Hobbes