Yohannes I or John I was negus (1667 - 1682) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. He was the fourth son of Fasildos. Negus is the Amharic word for king. The term negus negust means king of kings, or Emperor. ... Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... Events March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. ... The Solomonid dynasty is the traditional royal house of Ethiopia, claming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said to have given birth to the traditional first king Menelik I after her Biblically-described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem. ...

Yohannes was appointed negus by a council of the senior dignitaries of the Empire, at the encouragement of the noble Blattengeta Malka Krestos. The council then imprisoned the other sons of Fasilidos at Wehni, continuing the practice Fasilidos had revived.

Due to the violent religious controversy that Catholic missionaries had caused in Ethiopia under the reign of his grandfather Sissinios, he acted harshly towards Europeans. In 1669, he directed Grazmach Mikael to expel all of the Catholics still living in Ethiopia; they were sent to Sennar. Six Franciscans sent by Pope Alexander VII to succeed, where the Jesuits had failed 30 years before, were executed during his reign. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. ... Sennar is also an alternate spelling of Shinar, in a Biblical context. ... Franciscans is the common name used to designate a variety of mendicant religious orders of men or women tracing their origin to Francis of Assisi and following the Rule of St. ... Alexander VII, né Fabio Chigi (February 13, 1599 - May 22, 1667) was pope from April 7, 1655 until his death in 1667. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ...

As a result, he favored Armenian visitors, whose beliefs also embraced Monophysitism, and were in harmony with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He included in his retinue one Murad, who was an Armenian; and in 1679, an Armenian bishop Yohannes was received at his court, bearing a relic of Ewostatewos. Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning one and physis meaning nature) is the christological position that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human. ... The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia that was part of the Coptic Church until it was granted its own Patriarch by Cyril VI, the Coptic Pope, in 1959. ... Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ...

Bibliography

• Richard K. P. Pankhurst. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. Addis Ababa: Oxford University Press,1967.