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| 1673 |
| | | Molière falls fatally ill when acting in his own play Le Malade Imaginaire | |
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| 1673 |
| | | Sébastien de Vauban's new technique for conducting the siege of a town shows its effectiveness at Maastricht | |
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| 1673 |
| | | Parliament in England passes a Test Act excluding Catholics and Nonconformists from public office | |
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| 1674 |
| | | The Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek builds a microscope powerful enough for him to observe and describe the red corpuscles in blood | |
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| 1674 |
| | | Samuel Sewall begins a diary of daily life in Boston, Massachusetts, that will span a period of more than fifty years | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | Dutch traders purchase Kakiemon wares in Japan for import to the Netherlands | |
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| 1675 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, now develops the hairspring - of great future importance in watches | |
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| c. 1675 |
| | | The double-hung sash window is introduced in England and soon spreads to Holland | |
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| 1675 |
| | | A sudden uprising by the Wampanoag Indians against the new England settlements begins the conflict known as King Philip's War | |
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| 1676 |
| | | Ole Roemer, a Danish astronomer working with Cassini in Paris, calculates the speed of light with an error of only 25% | |
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