Today in History for Year 1665

Months in Year 1665: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 23 of 23

Feb 27th - Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-adm De Ruyter beats English
Mar 4th - English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
Mar 6th - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
Mar 11th - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
May 5th - Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
May 15th - Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
May 31st - Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
Jun 3rd - Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
Jun 6th - Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
Jun 12th - English rename New Amsterdam, NY, after Dutch pull out
Jun 12th - England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
Jun 13th - Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
Jun 17th - Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
Aug 2nd - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
Aug 12th - English fleet beat Dutch fleet
Aug 27th - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
Sep 22nd - Molieres "L'amour Medecin," premieres in Paris
Oct 5th - The University of Kiel is founded.
Oct 29th - Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
Nov 7th - 1st edition of "London Gazette"
Dec 4th - Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand," premieres in Paris
Dec 11th - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
Dec 30th - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 16 of 16

Feb 6th - Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14)
Feb 12th - Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant)
Mar 4th - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
Mar 27th - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
Apr 19th - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
Apr 29th - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
Jun 4th - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
Jun 5th - Nicolas Bernier, composer
Jul 2nd - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
Aug 6th - Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, composer
Aug 20th - Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)
Aug 21st - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
Aug 27th - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
Sep 20th - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer
Dec 25th - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
Dec 28th - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 12th - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63
Jan 21st - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
Jan 31st - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
Feb 28th - Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies
May 24th - Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies
May 31st - Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67
Jun 13th - Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29
Jun 13th - Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29
Jun 13th - Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55
Jun 25th - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
Sep 12th - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
Sep 17th - Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies
Sep 25th - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
Nov 10th - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
Nov 17th - John Earle, English bishop
Nov 19th - Nicholas Poussin, French painter, dies
Dec 2nd - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
Dec 10th - Tarquinio Mercula, composer, dies