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Years: 1662 1663 1664 - 1665 - 1666 1667 1668

Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Events

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• Charles II of Spain becomes King.
• London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die. (See the Great Plague of London.)
• Rumours abound that syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the brothels.
• 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.

January

February

March

• 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.

April

Margaret Porteous dies. she is the first person who was recorded to die of plague in the great plague of london

May

June

• June 3 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
• June 15 - Jean-Baptiste Denis makes the first blood transfusion from lamb to human.
• June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• June 30 - King Charles II of England issues a second charter for the Province of Carolina, which clarifies and expands the borders of the Lords Proprietors' tracts.

July

• July 7 - King Charles II of England leaves London with his entourage, fleeing the Great Plague. He moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter

August

September

October

• October 5 - The University of Kiel is founded.

November

• November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

December

Births

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• February 6 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
• February 12 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
• March 4 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier
• April 19 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
• April 29 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
• June 4 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
• July 2 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
• August 21 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
• August 27 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
• December 25 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
• December 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (d. 1716)

See also Category:1665 births.

Deaths

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• January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)
• January 31 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
• June 13 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• June 25 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
• July 11 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (b. 1603)
• July 18 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (b. 1599)
• September 12 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
• September 17 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
• September 25 - Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
• November 17 - John Earle, English bishop
• November 19 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter
• December 2 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
• December 10 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer

See also Category:1665 deaths.

1665

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