Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ... Events February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. ... // Events Prix de Rome scholarship established for students of the arts. ... Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ... 1666 is often called Annus Mirabilis. ... // Events 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. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Events and Trends Thirty Years War in full swing in Europe September 8, 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas. ... Events and Trends The personal union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal ends due to a revolution in the latter (1640). ... Significant Events and Trends World Leaders King Frederick III of Denmark (1648 - 1670). ... Events and Trends Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary in 1660 and ends it, due to failing eyesight in 1669. ... Events and Trends Newton and Leibniz independently discover calculus. ... Events and Trends The Treaty of Ratisbon between France and England in 1684 ended the Age of Buccaneers. ... Events and Trends Thomas Neale designed Seven Dials The Salem Witchcraft Trials are held in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1692). ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... 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Events

• March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
• August 1 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
• September 24 - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.

March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in leap years). ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... The Flag of England The Kingdom of England was a kingdom located in Western Europe, in the southern part of the island of Great Britain. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Söğüt (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Ä°stanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanl... The Battle of Saint Gotthard was fought on August 1, 1664 between an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Ottoman Empire at Szentgotthárd in Western Hungary. ... Raimondo, Count of Montecuccoli or Montecucculi (born February 21, 1608 or 1609 at the castle of Montecucculo in Modena; died October 16, 1680 at Linz) was prince of the holy Roman Empire and Neapolitan duke of Melfi, Austrian general. ... The Peace of Vasvár was a treaty between the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire which followed the Battle of Saint Gotthard of August 1, 1664. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... Peter Stuyvesant circa 1660 Peter Stuyvesant (born about 1612, Peperga (Friesland), Netherlands; died February, 1672, in present-day New York City, USA[1]) served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. ... New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was the name of the 17th century fortified settlement on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory (1614-1674) situated originally between 38 and 42 degrees latitude. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... Richard Nicolls (born 1624 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire; died May 28, 1672 on the North Sea, off Suffolk) was the first American colonial governor of New York. ...

Births

• January 4 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
• January 20 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
• February 6 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
• February 24 (baptized) - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (d. 1729)
• April 6 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
• April 30 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
• May 21 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1754)
• July 21 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
• November 9 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)

See also Category:1664 births. January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Lars Roberg (Stockholm 4 January 1664 – Uppsala 21 May 1742), Swedish physician. ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (January 20, 1664 – January 6, 1718), Italian man of letters and jurist, was born at Roggiano, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria. ... // Events The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Sultan Mustafa II Mustafa II (February 6, 1664 – December 28, 1703) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703. ... The Osmanli Dynasty, also the House of Osman, ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, Ertuğrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan. ... Events February 2 - Earthquake in Aquila, Italy February 4 - In Japan, the 47 samurai commit seppuku (ritual suicide) February 14 - Earthquake in Norcia, Italy April 21 - Company of Quenching of Fire (ie. ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Thomas Newcomen (baptised February 24, 1664; died August 5, 1729) was a blacksmith, plumber, and tinsmith by trade, and a baptist lay preacher by calling. ... Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Field Marshal and Count Arvid Bernhard Horn (April 6, 1664 â€“ April 17, 1742) was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish empire during the period of Sweden-Finland). ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ... François Louis de Bourbon (April 30, 1664 - February 9, 1709) was Prince de Conti, succeeding his brother Louis Armand I de Bourbon in 1685. ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Cardinal Alberoni Giulio Alberoni (May 21, 1664 OS - June 26 NS, 1752), Italian cardinal and statesman in the service of Philip V of Spain, was born near Piacenza, probably at the village of Fiorenzuola dArda in the Duchy of Parma. ... 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. ... // Events Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... Henry Wharton (November 9, 1664 - March 5, 1695), English writer, was descended from Thomas, 2nd Baron Wharton (1520-1572), being a son of the Rev. ... Events January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703) July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament. ...

Deaths

• May 21 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan/"foundress"/business woman
• July 16 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
• August 24 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
• August 27 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)

See also Category:1664 deaths. May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... Elizabeth Poole (unspecified-May 21st, 1664) or sometimes called Elizabeth Pole, was the foundress of Taunton, Massachusetts, in Colonial America. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... Andreas Gryphius (October 11, 1616_ July 16, 1664) was a German lyric poet and dramatist. ... Events October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast Pocahontas arrives in England War between Venice and Austria Collegium Musicum founded in Prague Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... Maria Cunitz (c. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... Francisco Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664), was a Spanish painter, born at Fuente de Cantos in Extremadura. ... Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I. April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ...