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Calendar year
May 2 : France gains territory (shown in blue) from the Spanish Netherlands after the
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution.
1668 (
MDCLXVIII ) was a
leap year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Wednesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1668th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 668th year of the
2nd millennium , the 68th year of the
17th century , and the 9th year of the
1660s decade. As of the start of 1668, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 23 – The
Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed between
England ,
Sweden and the
United Provinces of the Netherlands .
February 13 – In
Lisbon , a
peace treaty is established between
Afonso VI of Portugal and
Carlos II of Spain , by mediation of
Charles II of England , in which the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch is recognized. Portugal yields
Ceuta to Spain.
c. February – The English Parliament and bishops seek to suppress
Thomas Hobbes ' treatise
Leviathan .
[1]
March 8 – In the
Cretan War , the navy of the
Republic of Venice defeats an Ottoman Empire naval force of 12 ships and 2,000 galleys that had attempted to seize a small Venetian galley near the port of
Agia Pelagia .
March 23 – The
Bawdy House Riots of 1668 take place in
London when a group of
English Dissenters begins attacking
brothels , initially as a protest against the harsh enforcement of laws against private worshippers and the lack of enforcement of laws against prostitution. Over a period of three days, rioters who join in the violence destroy brothels in the London districts of Poplar, Moorfields, East Smithfield, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, St Andrew's and Holborn.
March 27 – King
Charles II of England signs
an agreement with representatives of the
English East India Company to lease the Indian city of
Bombay (modern-day Mumbai) to the company for a rent of 10 pounds sterling per year, with transfer taking effect on September 21.
April–June
April 21 –
Henry Brouncker is expelled from the English House of Commons for
treason during the 1665
Battle of Lowestoft during the
Second Anglo-Dutch War .
April 22 –
Tenzin Dalai Khan is proclaimed as the new Protector King of Tibet by the
5th Dalai Lama , following the death of Tenzin's father,
Dayan Khan .
April 24 –
The Treaty of Breda , signed in 1667 and ending the
Second Anglo-Dutch War , goes into effect worldwide.
April 25 – The
Swedish Empire signs a treaty with England and the Dutch Republic to join the
Triple Alliance .
May 2 – The first
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the
War of Devolution .
May 18 –
Charles Sedley 's comedy
The Mulberry-Garden premieres at the Theatre Royal in London.
June 4 –
Tangier , a city in Morocco that had come under control of the English colonial empire in 1661, is elevated by the English crown to the status of "free city".
June 12 –
John Dryden 's play
An Evening's Love , or The Mock Astrologer premieres at the Theatre Royal in London in a performance by the
King's Company players for King Charles and Queen Catherine.
June 16 – A group of Spanish Jesuit missionaries become the first European settlers to arrive at the island of
Guam , founding a mission to convert the
Chamorro people of the
Mariana Islands to Christianity.
June 18 –
Petro Doroshenko is proclaimed by the Russian Empire as the
hetman of all of
Ukraine , after having previously been granted leadership of the western half.
Ivan Briukhovetsky , who had ruled the eastern half and then led an uprising, is executed on the same day.
July–September
October –December
October 5 (September 25 O.S.) – The English blockade of the Moroccan port of
Salé begins as HMS Garland and
HMS Francis retaliate for raids from the port by the Barbary pirates. The blockade lasts for 10 days.
October 7 – French Jesuit missionary
Jean Pierron arrives at the
Mohawk Nation city of
Tionondogen (near modern-day
Palatine, New York , U.S.) to replace
Jacques Frémin in attempting to convert members of the Iroquois tribe to Christianity.
October 31 – The English ship
HMS Providence is wrecked at
Tangier on the North African coast.
November 8 –
Iliaș Alexandru steps down as the
voivode or elected ruler of
Moldavia (now part of
Romania and the Republic of
Moldova ) and is replaced by his predecessor,
Gheorghe Duca .
December 6 – The
Order of the Jesuati , founded in
1360 by
Giovanni Colombini , is abolished by
Pope Clement IX .
December 16 – In
China , the 1661 edict of the "
Great Clearance ", the forcible evacuation of the coastal areas of
Guangdong ,
Fujian ,
Zhejiang ,
Jiangnan , and
Shandong in order to fight a rebellion, is rescinded by the
Kangxi Emperor after lobbying by
Zhou Youde , the
Viceroy of Liangguang .
December 28 –
Fritz Cronman arrives in
Moscow as the Swedish Empire's ambassador to the Russian Empire, accompanied by a staff of 35 people.
Date unknown
Births
Giambattista Vico
Herman Boerhaave
May 8 –
Alain-René Lesage , French writer (d.
1747 )
June 23 –
Giambattista Vico , Italian philosopher and historian (d.
1744 )
July 21 –
Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (d.
1713 )
September 8 –
Giorgio Baglivi , Armenian doctor and writer (d.
1707 )
October 18 –
John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d.
1694 )
October 30 –
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover , sister of King
George I of Great Britain (d.
1705 )
November 10
November 11 –
Johann Albert Fabricius , German scholar (d.
1736 )
[8]
November 27 –
Henri François d'Aguesseau , Chancellor of France (d.
1751 )
November 30 –
William August, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (d.
1671 )
December 11 –
Apostolo Zeno , Italian poet and journalist (d.
1750 )
December 31 –
Herman Boerhaave , Dutch humanist and physician (d.
1738 )
[9]
date unknown –
Stokkseyrar-Dísa , Icelandic Galdrmistress (d.
1728 )
Deaths
Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland
January 6
January 14 –
Arnauld de Oihenart , Basque historian and poet (b.
1592 )
January 31 –
Hermann Busenbaum , German Jesuit theologian (b.
1600 )
February 2 –
Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra , Spanish artist (b.
1616 )
February 8 –
Alessandro Tiarini , Italian painter (b.
1577 )
February 21 –
John Thurloe , English Puritan spy (b.
1616 )
March 16 –
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (b.
1623 )
April 12 –
Alexander Daniell , sole proprietor of the Manor of Alverton, Cornwall (b.
1599 )
April 21 –
Jan Boeckhorst , Flemish painter (b. c.
1604 )
May 1 –
Frans Luycx , Flemish painter (b.
1604 )
May 8 –
Catherine of St. Augustine , French nun and nurse of New France (b.
1632 )
May 9 –
Otto Christoph von Sparr , German general (b.
1599 )
May 21 –
Christoph Delphicus zu Dohna , Prussian-born Swedish soldier, diplomat (b.
1628 )
June 20 –
Heinrich Roth , German Sanskrit scholar (b.
1620 )
July 26 –
Hans Svane , Danish statesman (b.
1606 )
August 9 –
Jakob Balde , German
Latinist (b.
1604 )
[10]
August 23 –
Artus Quellinus the Elder , Flemish sculptor (b.
1609 )
August 24 –
Tyman Oosdorp , Dutch brewer and magistrate of Haarlem (b.
1613 )
September 16
September 19 – Sir
William Waller , English Civil War general (b. c.
1635 )
October 12 –
Zacharias Wagenaer , secretary, painter, then merchant and administrator (Dutch East-India Company) (b.
1614 )
October 13
November 17 –
Joseph Alleine , English non-conformist preacher (b.
1634 )
November 21 –
Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b.
1632 )
December 3 –
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury , English earl (b.
1591 )
December 14 –
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge , English politician (b.
1599 )
December 23 –
Martin Bauzer , Gorizian Jesuit priest and writer (b.
1595 )
[11]
December 24 –
Wadham Wyndham , English judge (b.
1609 )
unknown date –
Fang Weiyi , Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historian (b.
1585 )
[12]
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