January 1 – The
Criminal Ordinance of 1670, the first attempt at a uniform code of criminal procedure in France, goes into effect after having been passed on August 26, 1670.
March 3 – Pomone, written by
Robert Cambert and considered by modern scholars to be the first
Frenchopera, is given its first performance. Using innovative costumes, and machinery for special stage effects, the premiere performed by the
Académie d'Opéra at the
Salle de la Bouteille theater in Paris is a success.[2]
March 31 – England's
Royal Navy launches its first warship to have a frame reinforced by iron bars rather than an all wooden ship, an innovation by naval architect
Anthony Deane. The state of the art, 102-gun ship is commissioned on January 18, 1672, as the flagship for Admiral
Edward Montagu but is sunk less than five months later in the
Battle of Solebay. Iron-framed ships are not attempted again for almost 50 years.
July 24 –
Awashonks, the female sachem who leads the
Sakonnet Indians in what is now the U.S. state of
Rhode Island, signs a peace agreement with the English leaders of the neighboring
Plymouth Colony (now part of
Massachusetts), along with chiefs Totatomet, Tattacommett and Somagaonet.[6]
August 15 –
Jamaica's Governor
Thomas Lynch offers a general pardon to pirates who are willing to come under Jamaican jurisdiction.[7]
November 9 – The
Duke of York's Theatre is opened in
London by the players of the
Duke's Company, rivals to the "King's Company" at the Theatre Royal, which burns down two months later. The site is now the Dorset Garden Theatre.
December 7 – The first
Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded with a service on a Saturday at
Newport, Rhode Island, by Stephen Mumford and four Sabbatarians who believed that Christian church services should be held on Saturday, the seventh and last day of the week, in keeping with the commandment of remembering the
Sabbath.[8][9]
^Samuel G. Drake, The Book of the Indians, or, Biography and history of the Indians of North America, from its first discovery to the year 1841 (Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845) p. 65
^Clarence H. Haring, The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (E. P. Dutton, 1910) p. 200
^Scott Bryant, The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition (Mercer University Press, 2011) p. 19
^Sanford, Don A. (1992). A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists. Nashville: Broadman Press. pp. 127–286.
ISBN0-8054-6055-1.
January 1 – The
Criminal Ordinance of 1670, the first attempt at a uniform code of criminal procedure in France, goes into effect after having been passed on August 26, 1670.
March 3 – Pomone, written by
Robert Cambert and considered by modern scholars to be the first
Frenchopera, is given its first performance. Using innovative costumes, and machinery for special stage effects, the premiere performed by the
Académie d'Opéra at the
Salle de la Bouteille theater in Paris is a success.[2]
March 31 – England's
Royal Navy launches its first warship to have a frame reinforced by iron bars rather than an all wooden ship, an innovation by naval architect
Anthony Deane. The state of the art, 102-gun ship is commissioned on January 18, 1672, as the flagship for Admiral
Edward Montagu but is sunk less than five months later in the
Battle of Solebay. Iron-framed ships are not attempted again for almost 50 years.
July 24 –
Awashonks, the female sachem who leads the
Sakonnet Indians in what is now the U.S. state of
Rhode Island, signs a peace agreement with the English leaders of the neighboring
Plymouth Colony (now part of
Massachusetts), along with chiefs Totatomet, Tattacommett and Somagaonet.[6]
August 15 –
Jamaica's Governor
Thomas Lynch offers a general pardon to pirates who are willing to come under Jamaican jurisdiction.[7]
November 9 – The
Duke of York's Theatre is opened in
London by the players of the
Duke's Company, rivals to the "King's Company" at the Theatre Royal, which burns down two months later. The site is now the Dorset Garden Theatre.
December 7 – The first
Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded with a service on a Saturday at
Newport, Rhode Island, by Stephen Mumford and four Sabbatarians who believed that Christian church services should be held on Saturday, the seventh and last day of the week, in keeping with the commandment of remembering the
Sabbath.[8][9]
^Samuel G. Drake, The Book of the Indians, or, Biography and history of the Indians of North America, from its first discovery to the year 1841 (Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845) p. 65
^Clarence H. Haring, The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (E. P. Dutton, 1910) p. 200
^Scott Bryant, The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition (Mercer University Press, 2011) p. 19
^Sanford, Don A. (1992). A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists. Nashville: Broadman Press. pp. 127–286.
ISBN0-8054-6055-1.