1667

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1664
  • 1665
  • 1666
  • 1667
  • 1668
  • 1669
  • 1670
1667 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1667
MDCLXVII
Ab urbe condita2420
Armenian calendar1116
ԹՎ ՌՃԺԶ
Assyrian calendar6417
Balinese saka calendar1588–1589
Bengali calendar1074
Berber calendar2617
English Regnal year18 Cha. 2 – 19 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar2211
Burmese calendar1029
Byzantine calendar7175–7176
Chinese calendar丙午(Fire Horse)
4363 or 4303
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
4364 or 4304
Coptic calendar1383–1384
Discordian calendar2833
Ethiopian calendar1659–1660
Hebrew calendar5427–5428
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1723–1724
 - Shaka Samvat1588–1589
 - Kali Yuga4767–4768
Holocene calendar11667
Igbo calendar667–668
Iranian calendar1045–1046
Islamic calendar1077–1078
Japanese calendarKanbun 6
(寛文6年)
Javanese calendar1589–1590
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4000
Minguo calendar245 before ROC
民前245年
Nanakshahi calendar199
Thai solar calendar2209–2210
Tibetan calendar阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1793 or 1412 or 640
    — to —
阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1794 or 1413 or 641
May 24: The War of Devolution begins.

1667 (MDCLXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1667th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 667th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1667, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 20Russo-Polish War (1654–1667): Poland cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo, which puts a final end to Poland's status as a major Central European power.
  • February – The first theatre in Scandinavia opens, in Lejonkulan and Bollhuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • MarchLouis 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 the first chief of "police" of Paris.
  • March 27 – In North America (Canada), explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
  • April 6Dubrovnik earthquake: An earthquake in the Republic of Ragusa kills one fifth of the population.
  • April 27 – The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons, for an initial payment of £5.[1][2][3] The first edition is published in October[2] and sells out in eighteen months.[4]
  • May 24 – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté.
  • June 914Raid on the Medway: A Dutch fleet under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter burns Sheerness, sails up the River Medway in England, raids Chatham Dockyard, and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.[5]
  • 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 20Pope Clement IX succeeds Pope Alexander VII, becoming the 238th pope.
  • June 26Louis XIV of France conquers Tournai.

July–December[]

  • July 31Second Anglo-Dutch War – The Treaty of Breda ends the war, and recognizes Acadia as a French possession.[6][7]
  • September 6 – The "Dreadful Hurricane of 1667" ravages southeast Virginia, bringing 12 days of rain, blowing down plantation homes and stripping fields of crops.
  • October 18
    • Brooklyn is chartered under the name Brueckelen by Mathias Nicolls, Governor of New Netherland.
    • Yohannes I becomes king of Ethiopia, following the death of his father Negus Fasilides.
  • November 25 – A devastating earthquake rocks Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.

Date unknown[]

  • After Shivaji's escape, hostilities between the Marathas and the Mughals ebb, with Mughal sardar Jaswant Singh acting as intermediary between Shivaji and Aurangzeb for new peace proposals.
  • The first military campaign of Stenka Razin is conducted in Russia.
  • The French army uses grenadiers.
  • Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.
  • Isaac Newton has investigated and written on optics, acoustics, the infinitesimal calculus, mechanism and thermodynamics. The works will be published only years later.

Births[]

John Arbuthnot

Deaths[]

Godefroy Wendelin

References[]

  1. ^ Equivalent to approximately £7,400 income in 2008. "Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to Present". MeasuringWorth. 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Campbell, Gordon (2004). "Milton, John (1608–1674)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18800. Retrieved July 5, 2013. The sums involved are modest but quite normal. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Lindenbaum, Peter (1995). "Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations". The Library. Oxford University Press. s6-17 (3): 250–269. doi:10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250. ISSN 0024-2160.
  4. ^ "John Milton's Paradise Lost". Morgan Library & Museum. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  5. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 190–191. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. ^ "Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667". Military History Encyclopedia on the Web. Archived from the original on September 9, 2011. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  7. ^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
  8. ^ James Anderson (1732). Royal Genealogies : Or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes, from Adam to These Times ; in Two Parts. Part I. James Anderson. p. 410.
  9. ^ Braun-Ronsdorf, Margarete (1953), "Agricola, Christoph Ludwig", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 98{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link); (full text online)
  10. ^ Stephen, Leslie (1898). "Swift, Jonathan" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 204.
  11. ^ Madeleine de Scudery (2004). Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. University of Chicago Press. p. 7.
  12. ^ Askew, Reginald (1997). Muskets and altars: Jeremy Taylor and the last of the Anglicans. London Herndon, VA: Mowbray. p. 165. ISBN 9780264674308.
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