1665
| Years: 1662 1663 1664 – 1665 – 1666 1667 1668 | |
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| Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century 1665 in topic: | |
Events
- March 4 – Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
- March 6 – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication
- March 16 – Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders
- June 3 – The Duke of York defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
- June 12 – England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
- November 7 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- Charles II of Spain becomes King
- London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die. (See the Great Plague.)
- Rumours abound that syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the brothels
- King Charles II moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter
- Battle of Ambuila: Portuguese forces defeat and kill king Garcia II of Kongo, ending native rule of that kingdom.
- Molière publishes L'Amour médecin
- John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection, Alexendre Le Grand, and The Indian Emperor
- Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot
Births
- February 6 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
Deaths
- January 12 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)
- June 25 – Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
- September 17 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
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