Popish Plot
1678 · Event
Titus Oates's fabricated tale of a Catholic plot against Charles II provokes a wave of executions and the Exclusion Crisis.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1678
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)