Royal Observatory, Greenwich founded
1675 · Event
Charles II commissions an observatory to solve longitude at sea; Wren designs it and John Flamsteed becomes the first Astronomer Royal.
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Around 1675
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)