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This article is about the year 1664. For the Kronenbourg beer, see
Kronenbourg .
Calendar year
September 8 : The Dutch city of
New Amsterdam , capital of the colony of
New Netherland , is surrendered to invading English Army troops, who rename the city and the colony "New York" for
The Duke of York .
August 1 :
Battle of Saint Gotthard
1664 (
MDCLXIV ) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Friday of the
Julian calendar , the 1664th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 664th year of the
2nd millennium , the 64th year of the
17th century , and the 5th year of the
1660s decade. As of the start of 1664, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 5 –
Battle of Surat in India: The
Maratha leader, Chhatrapati
Shivaji , defeats the
Mughal Army Captain Inayat Khan, and sacks
Surat .
January 7 – Indian entrepreneur
Virji Vora , described in the 17th century by the English East India Company as the richest merchant in the world, suffers the loss of a large portion of his wealth when the Maratha troops of Shivaji plunder his residence at Surat and his business warehouses.
February 2 –
Jesuit missionary
Johann Grueber arrives in
Rome after a 214-day journey that had started in
Beijing , proving that commerce can be had between Europe and Asia by land rather than ship.
February 12 – The Treaty of Pisa is signed between France and the Papal States to bring an end to the
Corsican Guard Affair that began on August 20, 1662, when the French ambassador was shot and killed by soldiers in the employ of Pope Alexander VII.
February 14 – A peace treaty is signed in
Turin in
Italy to end the
War of the Banished between the
Duchy of Savoy and the
Waldensians .
February 26 –
Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy , appointed by King
Louis XIV of
France as Lieutenant Général of the Americass, departs from the port of
La Rochelle with 1,200 men and seven ships to expand France's property in the Caribbean Sea and in South America.
March 12 – King
Charles II of England makes royal charter for territory in North America that leases to his brother,
James, Duke of York , a patent for a large amount of land in what is now the northeastern United States. According to the Charter, James receives "all that part of the mayne land of
New England " between "
New Scotland in America " and the river of Kenebeque", along with "Mattowacks or
Long Island " and "Martins Vineyard and Nantukes", and the lands between the "
Connecticutte and
Hudsons rivers" and the lands "from the west side of "
Connecticutte to the east side
De la Warre Bay ". The lease, which includes the territory claimed by the Dutch Republic as
New Netherland is for most of the U.S. state of
Maine and parts of
Connecticut ,
New York ,
New Jersey and
Pennsylvania .
[1]
March 19 – Polish astronomer
Jan Heweliusz becomes the first native of Poland to be inducted into England's Royal Society.
April–June
April 14 – All grants to the Compagnie des Isles de l'Amerique for development of French-claimed islands in the Caribbean Sea are revoked by King
Louis XIV , including the rights to the islands of
Martinique and
Saint Lucia that had been sold to
Marie Bonnard du Parquet prior to her death in 1659.
April 28 –
Juan Alonso de Cuevas y Dávalos is appointed as the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico by
Pope Alexander VII , to allow Archbishop
Mateo de Sagade de Bugueyro to return to
Spain . Archbishop Cuevas is installed on November 15 upon his arrival in Mexico City.
May 9 –
Robert Hooke discovers
Jupiter 's
Great Red Spot .
[2]
May 12 – The original version of
Tartuffe , a comedy by French playwright and actor
Molière , is given its first performance, staged at the
Palace of Versailles
May 15 –
Guerin Spranger , commander of the Dutch fortress at
Cayenne in South America, surrenders without a fight to French commander
Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy and 1,200 employees of the
Compagnie de la France équinoxiale , giving France control of the territory that becomes the colony of
French Guiana .
May 28 – King Louis XIV of France establishes the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales by royal decree to replace the recently cancelled Compagnie des Isles de l'Amerique.
June 3 – In the city of
Mantua in
Italy , the world's oldest continuously published private newspaper,
Gazzetta di Mantova , publishes its first-known issue. The newspaper would celebrate its 350th anniversary in
2014 .
[4]
[5]
June 5 – The
siege of the Croatian fortress at
Novi Zrin (located near the village of
Donja Dubrava in
Croatia near its border with
Hungary ). After a 32-day defense, the Croatian defenders surrender to troops of the
Ottoman Empire .
June 9 –
Kronenbourg Brewery (Brasseries Kronenbourg) is founded in
Strasbourg .
June 24 – The
Second Anglo-Dutch War carries over to North America as soldiers of the English Army invade the Dutch colony of
New Netherland , promised by King Charles II of England to his brother, the Duke of York. By October, the Dutch Republic surrenders the colony to the English and New Netherland (and its largest city,
New Amsterdam ) are renamed in honor of York.
July–September
August 1 –
Battle of Saint Gotthard : The
Ottoman Empire is defeated by a
Habsburg army, led by
Raimondo Montecuccoli , leading to the
Peace of Vasvár .
August 11 –
Sir John Lisle , a former member of the English House of Commons who had been designated a
regicide for his role in signing the death warrant in the execution in
1649 of
Charles I of England , is assassinated in a church courtyard in
Lausanne in Switzerland. Lisle had gone into exile after the
restoration of the monarchy in 1660 . The shooting of Lisle, done on order of
King Charles II , is carried out by a team led by royal agent
James Cotter .
August 27 – The
French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes Orientales ) is founded.
September 8 (August 29 O.S.) –
Peter Stuyvesant ,
Director-General of the
Dutch Republic
colony of
New Netherland , surrenders
New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron, commanded by Colonel
Richard Nicolls , without bloodshed. The English promptly rename the fledgling city
New York , after the
Duke of York (later King James II) .
[6]
September 23 – The French Navy ship
Tigre sinks off of the coast of the island of
Sardinia , with the loss of 64 men. Another 58 of the crew are rescued.
October–December
Date unknown
Births
John Vanbrugh
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
January 1 –
Alvise Pisani , 114th Doge of Venice (d.
1741 )
January 4 –
Lars Roberg , Swedish physician (d.
1742 )
January 14
January 15 –
Jean Meslier , French Catholic priest, later discovered to have promoted atheism (d.
1729 )
January 17 –
Antonio Salvi , Italian poet (d.
1724 )
January 20 –
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina , Italian writer and jurist (d.
1718 )
January 24 –
John Vanbrugh , English architect and dramatist (d.
1726 )
February 6 –
Mustafa II ,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1703 )
February 8 –
William Seymour , British politician (d.
1728 )
February 13 –
Teodor Andrzej Potocki , Polish noble (d.
1738 )
February 23 –
Georg Dietrich Leyding , German composer and organist (d.
1710 )
February 24 (baptized) –
Thomas Newcomen , English inventor (d.
1729 )
February 26 –
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier , Swiss mathematician (d.
1753 )
March 4 –
Juan de Esteyneffer , Moravian German lay Jesuit missionary sent to the New World (d.
1716 )
March 11 –
Jørgen Otto Brockenhuus , Dano-Norwegian officer (d.
1728 )
March 12 –
Moritz Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d.
1718 )
March 14 –
Silvio Stampiglia , Italian poet and opera librettist (d.
1725 )
March 17 –
Georg Österreich , German composer and music collector (d.
1735 )
March 20 –
Johann Homann , German cartographer (d.
1724 )
April 5 –
Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine , French noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (d.
1748 )
April 6
April 11 –
Pierce Lewis , Welsh cleric who helped to "correct" the
1690 edition of the Welsh Bible (d.
1699 )
April 14 –
Ulrik Adolf Holstein , Danish nobleman and statesman (d.
1737 )
April 30 –
François Louis, Prince of Conti , French general (d.
1709 )
May 6 –
Bhai Bachittar Singh , Indian Sikh martyr (d.
1705 )
May 10 –
Tørres Christensen , Norwegian merchant (d.
1721 )
May 20 –
Andreas Schlüter , German architect and sculptor (d.
1714 )
May 30 –
Giulio Alberoni , Italian cardinal and statesman (d.
1754 )
June 3 –
Rachel Ruysch , painter from the Northern Netherlands (d.
1750 )
June 7
June 22 –
Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d.
1707 )
June 24 –
François Pourfour du Petit , French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon (d.
1741 )
June 28 –
Nicolas Bernier , French composer (d.
1734 )
July 3 –
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby , English politician (d.
1736 )
July 11 –
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater (d.
1730 )
July 16 –
Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois (d.
1666 )
July 18 –
Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg , Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (d.
1732 )
July 21 –
Matthew Prior , English poet and diplomat (d.
1721 )
August 2 –
Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d.
1712 )
August 4 –
Louis Lully , French composer (d.
1734 )
August 12 –
Magnus Stenbock , Swedish noble (d.
1717 )
August 20 –
János Pálffy , Hungarian field marshal, Palatine (d.
1751 )
August 24
September 5
September 7
September 9 –
Johann Christoph Pez , German composer (d.
1716 )
September 14 –
John Blackadder , Scottish soldier (d.
1729 )
September 18 –
Anton Maria Maragliano , Italian artist (d.
1739 )
October 3 –
Giuseppe Alberti , Italian painter (d.
1716 )
October 12 –
Praskovia Saltykova , Russian tsarina (d.
1723 )
October 16 –
Abraham Alewijn , Dutch playwright (d.
1721 )
October 18 –
George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton (d.
1727 )
October 27 –
Thomas Johnson , English politician (d.
1728 )
October 31 –
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell , English politician (d.
1704 )
November 9
November 12 –
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier , French writer (d.
1734 )
November 16 –
Louise Marie Thérèse , French Benedictine nun (d.
1732 )
November 18 –
Charles of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , Duke of Mecklenburg (d.
1688 )
November 24 –
Margherita Maria Farnese , Italian noblewoman (d.
1718 )
December 10 –
John Williams , American clergy (d.
1729 )
December 13 –
Countess Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen , German noblewoman (d.
1699 )
December 15 –
Azim-ush-Shan , Mughal prince (d.
1712 )
December 17 –
Henry Bayntun , English politician (d.
1691 )
December 26 –
Johann Melchior Dinglinger , German goldsmith (d.
1731 )
date unknown –
Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer , Dutch writer and agent (d.
1737 )
Deaths
Adam Willaerts
January 10 –
Antoon Sanders , Dutch priest and historian (b.
1586 )
January 14 –
Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans , French princess (b.
1648 )
January 27 –
Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria , Roman Catholic bishop (b.
1649 )
January 30 –
Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch mayor (b.
1599 )
February 16 –
Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet , British baronet (b.
1592 )
February 20 –
Corfitz Ulfeldt , Danish statesman (b.
1606 )
February 26 –
Emmanuel Stupanus , Swiss physician (b.
1587 )
March 7 –
Bernhard von Mallinckrodt , German bibliophile (b.
1591 )
March 16 –
Ivan Vyhovsky , Ukrainian Cossack leader
March 19 –
Francisco de Araujo , Spanish theologian (b.
1580 )
March 30 –
Guru Har Krishan , 8th Guru of Sikhism (b.
1656 )
March 31 –
Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby , English defender of Latham House (b.
1599 )
[8]
April 4 –
Adam Willaerts , Dutch painter (b.
1577 )
April 24 –
Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (b.
1622 )
May 19 –
Elisabeth de Bourbon-Vendôme , French princess (b.
1614 )
May 21 –
Elizabeth Poole , Puritan and business woman (b. c.
1599 )
June 1 –
Michiel Sweerts , Flemish painter (b.
1618 )
June 2 –
Henry II, Duke of Guise (b.
1614 )
June 22 –
Katherine Philips , Anglo-Welsh poet (b.
1631 )
[9]
July –
Jan Janssonius , Dutch cartographer (b.
1588 )
July 4 –
George III of Brieg , Duke of Brzeg (1633–1664) (b.
1611 )
July 15 –
Abraham Ecchellensis , Lebanese Maronite philosopher (b.
1605 )
July 12 –
Stefano della Bella , Italian printmaker (b.
1610 )
July 16 –
Andreas Gryphius , German writer (b.
1616 )
[10]
July 19 –
Egbert van der Poel , Dutch painter (b.
1621 )
July 31 –
Goschwin Nickel , Jesuit leader (b.
1582 )
August 3 –
Jacopo Vignali , Italian painter (b.
1592 )
August 16 –
Johannes Buxtorf II , Swiss theologian (b.
1599 )
August 23 –
Jean Bagot , French theologian (b.
1591 )
August 24 –
Maria Cunitz , Silesian astronomer (b.
1610 )
August 27 –
Francisco de Zurbarán , Spanish painter (b.
1598 )
September 2 –
Antoine de Laloubère , French Jesuit mathematician (b.
1600 )
October 31 –
William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz , Dutch stadtholder (b.
1613 )
November 2 –
George Ghica , Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia (b.
1600 )
November 17 –
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt , Translator (b.
1606 )
November 18 –
Miklós Zrínyi , Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman (b.
1620 )
December 15 –
Dietrich Reinkingk , German lawyer and politician (b.
1590 )
December 25 –
Niccolò Ludovisi , Prince of Piombino (b.
1613 )
December 26 –
Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau , Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage (b.
1602 )
date unknown –
Gu Mei , politically influential Chinese
Gējì , poet and painter (b.
1619 )
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