Explore 207 historical events from 1660–1669.
Mary Catherine of St. Augustine, OSA was a French canoness regular who was instrumental in the development of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in the colony of New France. She has been bea…
Catherine of St
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1668. He supported the Royalist cause in t…
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (born 1599)
Heinrich Roth, also known as Henricus Rodius or Henrique Roa, was a German missionary and pioneering Sanskrit scholar.
Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (born 1620)
Sir William Waller JP was an English soldier and politician, who commanded Parliamentarian armies during the First English Civil War. Elected MP for Andover to the Long Parliament …
William Waller, English general and politician (born 1597)
The Anglo-Spanish War of 1654–1660 was fought between the Commonwealth of England and Habsburg Spain. It was driven by the economic and religious rivalry between the two countries,…
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): Henry Morgan with an English privateer force landed at Porto Bello (in modern-day…
Northern Anatolia was struck by a large earthquake on 17 August 1668 in the late morning. It had an estimated magnitude in the range 7.8–8.0 Ms and the maximum felt intensity was I…
An earthquake struck the North Anatolia region, killing over 8,000 people.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by…
Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stati
The French Royal Army was the principal land force of the Kingdom of France. It served the Bourbon dynasty from the reign of Louis XIV in the mid-17th century to that of Charles X …
The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to
The Peace of Breda, or Treaty of Breda was signed in the Dutch city of Breda, on 31 July 1667. It consisted of three separate treaties between England and each of its opponents in …
The treaty of Breda ends the second Anglo-Dutch War and grants England in possession of New Amsterdam.
John Arbuthnot FRS, often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his m…
John Arbuthnot, Scottish-English physician and polymath (died 1735)
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and p…
Abraham de Moivre, French-English mathematician and theorist (died 1754)
Pietro Ottoboni was an Italian cardinal and grandnephew of Pope Alexander VIII, who was also born Pietro Ottoboni. He is remembered especially as a great patron of music and art. O…
Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and art collector (died 1740)
Saint-Pierre is a town and commune of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique, founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc. Before the total destruction of Saint-Pierr…
An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second…
Prince Ivan Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian field marshal, promoted in 1728. The son of Yuriy Trubetskoy, as a member of the House of Trubetskoy, he was a member of the inner ci…
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (died 1750)
Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and…
Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (died 1748)
Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and…
Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1748)
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow was Queen of Denmark and Norway as the first wife of King Frederick IV of Denmark. In 1708–09, she was regent during her husband's trip to Italy.
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1721)
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician. He is considered the forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1733)
Jean-Louis Lully was a French musician and composer. He was born in Paris, the youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Jean-Louis Lully, French composer (died 1688)
Louis Frederick I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was the ruling prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Count of Hohenstein, Lord of Rudolstadt, Blankenburg and Sondershausen from 1710 until …
Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (died 1718)
Maria Anna of Neuburg, was a German princess and member of the Wittelsbach family. In 1689, she became Queen of Spain as the second wife of Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler…
Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen consort of Spain
George Wither was a prolific English poet, pamphleteer, satirist, and writer of hymns. Wither's life spanned one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of England, during th…
George Wither, English poet and author (born 1588)
Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. Among the most famous composers of the era, he was influential in developing the musical form…
Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (born 1616)
Georges de Scudéry, the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet.
Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1601)