Major Events
- May 27 Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment
- Jul 12 Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court
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1679 in Music
- Jan 31 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris
Born in 1679
- Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1750)
- Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1759)
- Jan 24 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1754)
- Jan 27 Jean-François de Troy, French painter (Rococo style), born in Paris, France (d. 1752)
- Feb 14 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, born in Ostramondra, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1735)
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