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| Years: 1666 1667 1668 - 1669 - 1670 1671 1672 | ||||||||||
| Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s | ||||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- March 11 - Mount Etna erupts - the eruption destroys the town of Nicolosi and kills 20,000
- June 22 - Roux de Marsilly publicly tortured to death in Paris accused of plotting to assassination of the Louis XIV
- June 25 - Francois de Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in a siege of Candia in Crete
- September 23 - Leopold I Habsburg grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb
- Samuel Pepys stops writing his diary.
- The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
- Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin
- Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people
- The Hanseatic League, formed 400 years ago, holds its final meeting
- Ottoman Turks take Candia, the Venetians lose Crete
- Francois de Beaufort, grandson of Henry IV of France, goes missing at Candia, presumed dead
- The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.
- Turkish units burned the eastern part of Kolárovo
Births
- February 2 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732)
- May 26 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
- August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
Deaths
- February 23 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
- March 10 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
- May 14 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
- May 16 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian artist (b. 1596)
- June 25 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
- September 10 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
- October 4 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
- October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
- October 24 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
- November 4 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
- December 9 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
- December 16 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician
Publications
- Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology
- Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch by Hans von Grimmelshausen, the first major German novel
- Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
- Tartuffe by Molière
- Britannicus by Jean Racine
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