January 2 – After the government ofEngland is unable to pay the nation's debts,King Charles II decrees theStop of the Exchequer, the suspension of payments for one year "upon any warrant, securities or orders, whether registered or not registered therein, and payable within that time, excepting only such payments as shall grow due upon orders on the subsidy, according to the Act of Parliament, and orders and securities upon the fee farm rents, both which are to be proceeded upon as if such a stop had never been made." The money saved by not paying debts is redirected toward the expenses of the upcoming war with theDutch Republic, but the effect is for the halt by banks for extending further credit to the Crown. Before the end of the year, the suspension of payments is extended from December 31 to May 31, and then to January 31, 1674.
January 13 –Pope Clement X issues regulations for the prerequisites of removingrelics ofRoman Catholic saints from sacred cemeteries, requiring advance approval from theCardinal Vicar in Rome before the remains of the saint can be allowed for view. The Cardinal Vicar is directed to bar regular persons from viewing remains, and to limit inspection to high prelates and to princes.
January 25 – TheTheatre Royal, located at the time on Bridges Street in London, burns down.[1] A replacement structure is built on Drury Lane in 1674.
February 16 (February 6, 1671 O.S.) –Isaac Newton sends a paper for publication regarding his experiments on the refraction of light through glass prisms and makes the first identification of the "primary colors" ofvisible light on theelectromagnetic spectrum, reporting that "The Original or primary colours are, Red, Yellow, Green, Blew, and a Violet-purple, together with Orange, Indico, and an indefinite variety of Intermediate gradations."[2]
March 12 –Action of 12 March 1672, a 2-day naval engagement between an English coastal patrol and a Dutch Smyrna convoy off the south coast of England. The English fleet suffers severe damage while most of the Dutch convoy escapes, although one of the Dutch commanders (De Haaze) is killed and one warship taken as a prize (Klein Hollandia) sinks; the latter will be rediscovered in 2019.[3]
March 16 – At theSynod of Jerusalem, presided over byDositheos II of Jerusalem, the 68 bishops and representatives from the whole ofEastern Orthodox Christendom close by approving the Orthodox dogma against the challenge ofProtestantism, declaring against "the falsehoods of the adversaries which they have devised against the Eastern Church" and making a goal of "reformation of their innovations and for their return to the catholic and apostolic church in which their forefathers also were."[5]
September 10 –William III of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, dismisses nine of theregenten who lead cities in the Netherlands, after being granted authority by the States-General.
September 16 – TheBoard of Trade is created in England by a merger of the Council of Trade and the Council of Foreign Plantations, both of which had been created by King Charles II in 1660, under the name The Board of Trade and Plantations. TheEarl of Shaftesbury is appointed as the first Lord of Trade, administering the Board until its dissolution in 1676.
October 2 –Manuel de Cendoya,Spain's Governor of Florida, breaks ground for the construction of theCastillo de San Marcos, a masonry fortress designed to protectSt. Augustine.[8] Governor Cendoya follows on November 9 with the ceremonial laying for the first stone for the foundation.
November 24 – Five-year-oldSikandar Adil Shah is enthroned as the lastSultan of Bijapur (located in southwestern India in what is now theKarnataka state) upon the death of his father, the SultanAli Adil Shah II. In 1686, the sultanate of Bijapur is conquered and annexed by the Mughal Empire.
Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp ends her regency of the Swedish Empire after more than 12 years, having exercised power in the name of her minor son,Charles XI, since the death of her husbandKarl X Gustav in 1660. Hedwig Eleonora had served as the chair of the six-member Regency Council.
An English invasion force captures the Caribbean island ofTobago from Dutch colonists and destroys the settlement.
December 30 – Troops of the Dutch Republic, under the command ofCarl von Rabenhaupt, are able to reclaim lost territory for the first time in theThird Anglo-Dutch War, liberatingCoevorden, which had been forced to surrender to France on July 1. The moment, a boost for morale in what is remembered in Dutch history as theRampjaar (the "Disaster Year"), is later memorialized in a painting byPieter Wouwerman,The Storming of Coevorden.
^The Acts and Decrees of the Synod of Jerusalem, Sometimes Called the Council of Bethlehem, Holden Under Dositheus, Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1672, translated by J. N. W. B. Robertson (Thomas Baker publishing, 1899) pp. 173-181
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 191–192.ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^Olaf van Nimwegen,The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688 (Boydell Press, 2010) p. 448
^Albert C. Manucy,The Building of Castello de San Marcos (U.S. National Park Service, 2014)
^Hutchings, Victoria (2005).Messrs Hoare, Bankers: a History of the Hoare Banking Dynasty.
^Palacios, José Ignacio (2000).Los compositores aragoneses(PDF) (in Spanish). Zaragoza: Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón. pp. 61–62.ISBN84-95306-41-7.Archived(PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. RetrievedJuly 11, 2021.
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