1667
*
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.
*
April 27 - The blind, impoverished
John Milton sells the copyright of
Paradise Lost for £10.
*
June 12-17 - In the
Raid on the Medway, a Dutch fleet under admiral
Michiel de Ruyter burns
Sheerness, sails up the
River Medway, raids
Chatham dockyards and escapes with the royal barge
The Royal Charles.
*
June 15 - The first human
blood transfusion is administered by Dr.
Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a
sheep to a 15-year old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).
*
June 20 – Dutch troops attack Royal Navy ships in London and Chatham and burn them.
*
July 31 -
Second Anglo-Dutch War ends: The
Treaty of Breda ends the war. The treaty also recognizes
Acadia as a
French possession.
*
October 18 -
Brooklyn is chartered under the name
Brueckelen by
Mathias Nicolls, Governor of
New Netherlands.
*
November 25 - Devastating
earthquake rocks
Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
*
Suleiman I becomes
Shah of
Persia.
* The
Mogul Emperor
Aurangzeb buys off the bandit
Shivaji by making him a Rajah and allowing him to collect taxes.
*
Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for
respiration.
* The
War of Devolution begins,
France invades
Flanders and
Franche-Comté.
*
Louis XIV of France abolishes the
Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used
Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates
Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of
Paris.
* French army uses
grenadiers.
*
Yohannes succeeds his father Fasildos as
Emperor of Ethiopia.
*
April 29 -
John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (d.
1735)
*
May 26 -
Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d.
1754)
*
June 18 -
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d.
1750)
*
July 28 -
Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathemiatician (d.
1748)
*
August 11 -
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d.
1743)
*
September 5 -
Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d.
1733)
*
September 28 -
Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d.
1701)
*
November 5 -
Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d.
1719)
*
November 2 -
James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d.
1737)
*
November 30 -
Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (d.
1745)
*
December 9 -
William Whiston, English mathematician (d.
1752)
*
December 25 -
Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Munster*
Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d.
1740)
*
May 2 -
George Wither, English writer (b.
1588)
*
May 7 -
Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b.
1616)
*
May 16 -
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b.
1607)
*
May 22 -
Pope Alexander VII (b.
1599)
*
May 25 -
Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b.
1620)
*
June 5 -
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b.
1607)
*
July 28 -
Abraham Cowley, English poet (b.
1618)
*
August 3 -
Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b.
1599)
*
August 13 -
Jeremy Taylor, Irish clergyman and writer (b.
1613)
*
October 18 - Emperor
Fasilides of Ethiopia*
November 12 -
Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b.
1598)
*
November 28 -
Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (b.
1633)
*
Antonio Abati, Italian poet
*
France -
Louis XIV,
King of France (
1643-
1715)
