1667

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Years: 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 - 1667 - 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672

Events

• January 20 - Poland cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia
• April 27 - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• June 17 - Much of the English fleet destroyed at the Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War
• 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

• Suleiman I becomes Shah of Persia
• The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb buys off the bandit Shivaji by making him a Rajah and allowing to collect taxes
• Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration
• Jean Denis performs the first blood transfusion from a lamb into a boy.
• 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).

Year in topic

• 1667 in literature
• 1667 in science

Births

• May 26 - Abraham de Moivre, mathematician (+ 1754)
• Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter
• November 2 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland
• Antonio Lotti, composer (+ 1740)

Deaths

• Shah Abbas II of Persia

Heads of states

• France - Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)

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