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1661
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi discovers the capillaries in the frog's lung .
Louis XIV. 1661
The French King Louis XIV took all government affairs into his own hands.
Execution of Cromwell, Bradshaw and Ireton
Oliver Cromwell is exhumed with two of his companions
and posthumously executed in London.
1661 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 1109/10 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 1653/54 (September 10-11)
Bengali solar calendar 1066/67 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar 2204/05 (southern Buddhism); 2203/04 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 72nd (73rd) cycle

Year of the Metal Ox辛丑 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Rat 庚子)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 1023/24 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea) 3994/95 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar 1039/40
Islamic calendar 1071/72 (August 26-27)
Jewish calendar 5421/22 (23/24 September)
Coptic calendar 1377/78 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar 836/837
Seleucid era Babylon: 1971/72 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 1972/73 (New Year October)

Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 1717/18 (April)

events

Politics and world events

England and its colonies

Coronation portrait of Charles II by John Michael Wright

France / Spain

  • February 28: With the Peace of Vincennes between France and Lorraine , the crisis between the two countries is resolved. France withdraws from Lorraine, but keeps strategically important places in its hands.
  • March 10th: One day after the death of his minister, Cardinal Jules Mazarin , France's King Louis XIV takes all government affairs into his own hands.
  • September 5: Nicolas Fouquet , the former superintendent of the finances of the French King Louis XIV , is arrested. The ruler, who suspects Fouquet of a fronde, displeases the arrested man's ambitions for a higher office, his wealth on display and the strengthening of fortresses .
  • September 30th: In the London carriage dispute , Louis XIV deliberately intensified the smoldering dispute between France and Spain in order to demonstrate French supremacy in Europe.
  • On behalf of Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Colbert began drafting the Code Louis . The task of this legal code is to bring order into the laws and jurisdiction of the kingdom , taking into account southern French Roman law and northern French customary law . The first part of civil law was published in 1667, the second part of criminal law in 1670.

Portugal, the Netherlands and their colonies

Other events in Europe

Ferdinand v. Furstenberg

business

Wide double show coin from the Dresden mint

science and technology

Robert Boyle

Culture

religion

Disasters

Excerpt from Jacob Hoefnagel's Viennese bird's
eye view from 1609: The Graben, the first St. Peter's Church at the bottom right
  • The original St. Peter's Church in Vienna , first mentioned in a document in 1137 and possibly dating back to the 8th century, is destroyed by a fire and only poorly repaired. A new building does not begin until 40 years later .

Historical maps and views

Manhattan 1661

Born

First half of the year

Second half of the year

  • September 2: Georg Böhm , German organist and composer († 1733)
  • September 2: Heinrich , Duke of Saxony-Merseburg († 1738)
  • September 23: Georg Pasch , German ethnologist, logician and Protestant theologian († 1707)
Melchior de Polignac, portrait by Rosalba Carriera , 1732
  • October 7: Sukjong , 19th king of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea († 1720)
  • October 11: Melchior de Polignac , French cardinal, diplomat and poet († 1741)
  • October 16: Anton Ulrich , Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt († 1680)
Charles II of Spain

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

Date of death secured

  • June 11: Georg II , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (* 1605)
  • June 21: Andrea Sacchi , Italian painter (* 1599)
  • September 11th: Jan Fyt , Flemish painter (* 1611)
  • September 22nd: Christoph Bach , German council musician (* 1613)
  • 0December 1st: Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg , Cardinal, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Regensburg and Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne (* 1593)
  • 0December 2: Daniel Seghers , Flemish painter (* 1590)
  • 0December 4: Murad Bakhsh , son of the Indian Grand Mogul Shah Jahan (* 1624)

Exact date of death unknown

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