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1667
The Medway raid hastened the end of the Anglo-Dutch War with the Peace of Breda .
Alfonso VI of Portugal has to renounce the regency.	Giulio Rospigliosi is named Clement IX. Pope.
1667 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1115/16 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1659/60 (September 11-12)
Bengali solar calendar	1072/73 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2210/11 (southern Buddhism); 2209/10 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	72nd (73rd) cycle Year of the fire sheep丁未 ( at the beginning of the year fire horse 丙午)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1029/30 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4000/01 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1045/46
Islamic calendar	1077/78 (June 22-23)
Jewish calendar	5427/28 (September 18-19)
Coptic calendar	1383/84 (September 11-12)
Malayalam calendar	842/843
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1977/78 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1978/79 (turn of the year October)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1723/24 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Second Anglo-Dutch War

• February 25 : A Dutch fleet under the command of Abraham Crijnssen emerges off Paramaribo , the capital of the English colony of Suriname .
• March 6th : After a short bombardment, the English governor William Byam signs the surrender document from Suriname to the Dutch .
• May 20 : In the naval battle of Nevis in the Caribbean, English ships repel a planned invasion of the Caribbean island of Nevis by a Dutch-French fleet in the Anglo-Dutch War .
• Early June: A fleet of nine ships sent from England reaches the English colony of Barbados in the Caribbean . However, the attempt to recapture the island of St. Kitts, which had fallen into French hands last year , fails on June 16 .

Robbery in the Medway ; Painting by Willem Schellinks (around 1668)

• June 19 to 24 : During the attack in the Medway , Dutch ships penetrate into the mouth of the Thames. The Royal Navy is experiencing its greatest disaster to date and England is forced to conclude peace as a result.
• From June 25th: The English fleet repeatedly attacks the French Caribbean island of Martinique and defeats a French squadron at Saint-Pierre on July 6th .

Peace Congress in Breda; (Contemporary engraving)

• July 31 : The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch naval war . The Netherlands is withdrawing from North America, while England is clearing its bases in Indonesia and Suriname. The clear division of territory results in a real relaxation between the two emerging colonial powers.
• September 15 : English units, ignorant of the peace treaty, conquer Cayenne .
• October 8th : The English recapture Suriname, but this has no further effects due to the previous peace treaty of Breda. The English fleet returns to Barbados at the beginning of November.

• With the Eeuwig edict , the abolition of the hereditary governorship in Holland is decided.

Polish-Russian War

Poland-Lithuania 1667

• January 30th : The Treaty of Andrussowo ends the Russo-Polish War 1654–1667 . The treaty annuls all Polish territorial gains established in the Treaty of Deulino of 1618 and ends the centuries-long dominance of the Rzeczpospolita of Poland-Lithuania in Eastern Europe in favor of Tsarist Russia .

France

The French Army before Courtrai , painting by Adam Frans van der Meulen

• May 24th : With the entry of French troops under the command of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne , into the Spanish Netherlands , Louis XIV's war of devolution against Spain begins . The attacked are poorly prepared for a war and cannot count on support from the motherland for the foreseeable future. The first goal of the French is the Charleroi fortress , which is occupied on June 2nd .

First page of the Code Louis of 1667

• The civil part of the Code Louis drawn up by Jean-Baptiste Colbert on behalf of Louis XIV is published.

Other events in Europe

• June 19 : Count Anton Günther dies, the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst come under Danish rule.

Maria Francisca of Savoy, Queen of Portugal

• November 23rd : The wife Maria Francisca Elisabeth of Savoy and her brother Peter force the weak-minded King Alfonso VI in Portugal . to renounce the regency.

American colonies

• April 18th : Exchange of Manhattan Island for Run Island

• Antigua and Barbuda become an English colony .

economy

• German monetary history before 1871 / Saxon coin history : Kurbrandenburg and Kursachsen sign the Zinna Coin Treaty to standardize their coinage .

science and technology

• June 15 : Jean-Baptiste Denis , MD, performs the first recorded successful blood transfusion from a lamb to a human in Paris .
• September 2nd : Street lighting is introduced in Paris in order to be able to better monitor nighttime events by the police.

Culture

Visual arts

• April 9 : The world's first art exhibition opens at the Paris Salon du Louvre .

The Jew's Bride

• Rembrandt van Rijn completed the work that would later be known as The Jew's Bride .

literature

• April 27 : The almost blind and impoverished English poet John Milton sells his author's rights to his work Paradise Lost for £ 10 .

• The Indian poet Bidil describes in his Persian-language work Muḥīṭ-ia'ẓam ( The Immeasurable Cosmos ) the origin of the cosmos .

Music and theater

• January 30th : The world premiere of the musical drama Atalanta by Johann Caspar von Kerll takes place in Munich.
• August 5 : The second version of Molière's comedy Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur , like the first version from 1664, causes a scandal and is prohibited from performing.
• November 6th : The world premiere of the musical drama Le pretensioni del sole by Johann Caspar von Kerll takes place in Munich.
• November 17 : The tragedy Andromache by Jean Racine , in the Hôtel de Bourgogne premiered in Paris. The piece is based on some verses from Virgil's epic Aeneid , from which Racine deviates in several points.

The auditorium of the opera house

• The opera house on Taschenberg in Dresden , built on behalf of Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony, will be completed by master builder Wolf Caspar von Klengel after around three years of construction .

religion

• June 20 : Clemens IX. is elected Pope to succeed Alexander VII , who died on May 22nd .

Disasters

• April 6th : A severe earthquake collapses almost all buildings in Ragusa , today's Dubrovnik , while the city walls withstand the force of nature. The head of the city is among the more than 5,000 fatalities.

Born

First half of the year

• January 26 : Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset , lady-in-waiting to Mary II of England († 1722 )
• January 26 : Hendrick Zwaardecroon , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies († 1728 )

• 0February 4 : Hieronymus Dathe , German Lutheran theologian († 1707 )
• 0February 5 : Gottfried Reiche , German trumpeter and composer († 1734 )
• February 27 : Luise Charlotte Radziwill , Lithuanian Calvinist noblewoman († 1695 )

• 0March 3 : Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming , Saxon-Polish statesman and army chief († 1728 )
• March 13 : José Antonio de Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor , Spanish colonial administrator, Viceroy of Peru († 1746 )
• March 31 : Hieronymus von Erlach , Swiss general († 1748 )
• April: John Arbuthnot , British medic and writer († 1735 )

• May 26 : Abraham de Moivre , French mathematician († 1754 )
• May 28 : Johann Ortwin Westenberg , German legal scholar († 1737 )
• June 24th : Johann Jakob Dachs , Swiss Protestant clergyman († 1744 )

Second half of the year

• 0August 6 : Johann I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician († 1748 )
• 0August 9 : David Hoyer , German painter († 1720 )
• August 11 : Anna Maria Louisa de Medici , last Grand Duchess of Tuscany and ruler of the Medici family, Electress of the Palatinate († 1743)

• 0October 2 : Louis de Bourbon , Count of Vermandois, illegitimate son of Louis XIV († 1683 )
• October 28 : Maria Anna von Pfalz-Neuburg , Queen of Spain († 1740 )
• 0November 2 : Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski , Crown Prince of Poland († 1737 )

Jonathan Swift (around 1710)

• November 30th : Jonathan Swift , Anglo-Irish writer († 1745 )
• December 15 : Ernst Ludwig , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt († 1739 )
• December 16 : Johann Friedrich Hertel , German legal scholar († 1743 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Matthäus des Angles , French sculptor, painter and draftsman († 1741 )
• Germain Boffrand , French builder and interior designer († 1754 )
• Thomas Fairchild , English botanist and gardener († 1729 )
• Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio , Italian castrato and opera singer († 1737 )

Born around 1667

• Henry Kelsey , English fur trader, sailor and explorer († 1724 )
• Wenzel Niederwerder , Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, theologian and exile of Bohemian origin in Electoral Saxony († 1732 )

Died

First half of the year

• 0January 9th : Detlev von Ahlefeldt , canon of the cathedral chapter of Lübeck Cathedral (* 1633 )
• January 23 : Hieronymus Bauhin , Swiss doctor of French origin (* 1637 )
• March 27 : Franz Wesselényi , Hungarian palatine and ringleader (* 1605 )
• March 29 : Elisabeth Louise Juliane von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , abbess of Herford (* 1613 )
• April 13 : Carlo Martino Carlone , Italian builder (* around 1616 )
• 0May 6 or May 7 : Johann Jakob Froberger , German composer and organist (* 1616 )
• May 10 : Luisa Maria Gonzaga , Queen of Poland (* 1611 )
• May 22 : Alexander VII , Pope from 1655 to 1667 (* 1599 )
• May 22nd : Melchior Schildt , German composer and organist (* 1592 or 1593 )
• 0June 5 : Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino , Italian cardinal and theologian (* 1607 )
• June 18 : Luise Henriette von Oranien , Electress of Brandenburg (* 1627 )
• June 19 : Anton Günther , Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst (* 1583 )
• June 26 : Johann Zeisold , German physicist (* 1599 )

Second half of the year

• 0July 4th : John VI. , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (* 1621 )
• 0July 7th : Nicolas Sanson , French cartographer (* 1600 )
• 0July 8 : Zacharias Lund , German poet and classical philologist (* 1608 )
• July 23 : Justus Henricus Heidfeldt , German Reformed theologian and philologist (* 1606 )
• July 28 : Abraham Cowley , English poet (* 1618 )

• 0August 2nd : Francesco Borromini , Italian builder (* 1599 )
• August 12 : Cornelius van Poelenburgh , Dutch painter (* 1594 / 95 )
• August 31 : Johann Rist , German poet and Evangelical Lutheran preacher (* 1607 )

• 0September 3 : Alonso Cano , Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (* 1601 )
• October 18 : Fasilides , Emperor of Ethiopia (* 1603 )
• October 24 : Gabriel Metsu , Dutch painter (* 1629 )

• 0November 5 : Franz Tunder , German composer and organist (* 1614 )
• November 16 : Nathanael Schnittelbach , German composer and violinist (* 1633 )
• November 28th : Jean de Thévenot , French traveler to Asia, linguist and botanist (* 1633 )

• December 21 : Hans Ernst from the Winckel , German aristocrat and member of the " Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft " (* 1585 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Antonio Abati , Italian poet (* around 1600 )
• François l'Olonnais , French buccaneer (* ca.1635 )

Died around 1667

• Caspar Preis , Kurmainzer farmer and local chronicle

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