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1665
Years: 1662 1663 1664 - 1665 - 1666 1667 1668 |
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Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s |
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1665 in literature 1665 in science |
Events
- March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
- March 6 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication
- March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders
- June 3 - The Duke of York defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
- June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
- November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- Charles II of Spain becomes King
- London has its last severe outbreak of the Black Death, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die
- Rumours abound that syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the brothels
- King Charles II moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter
- Battle of Ambuila: Portuguese forces defeat and kill king Garcia II of Kongo , ending native rule of that kingdom.
- Molière publishes L'Amour médecin
- John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection, Alexendre Le Grand, and The Indian Emperor
- Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot
- Plague in Cambridge and London
Births
- February 6 - Princess Anne Stuart, later Queen Anne of Great Britain
Deaths
- January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
- June 25 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- September 17 - Philip IV of Spain
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