1664
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This article is about the year 1664. For the Kronenbourg beer, see Kronenbourg.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1630s 1640s 1650s – 1660s – 1670s 1680s 1690s |
| Years: | 1661 1662 1663 – 1664 – 1665 1666 1667 |
| 1664 by topic: | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1664 MDCLXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2417 |
| Armenian calendar | 1113 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6414 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -180–-179 |
| Bengali calendar | 1071 |
| Berber calendar | 2614 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Cha. 2 – 16 Cha. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2208 |
| Burmese calendar | 1026 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7172–7173 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年十二月初四日 (4300/4360-12-4) — to —
甲辰年十一月十五日(4301/4361-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 1380–1381 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1656–1657 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5424–5425 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1720–1721 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1586–1587 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4765–4766 |
| Holocene calendar | 11664 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 664–665 |
| Iranian calendar | 1042–1043 |
| Islamic calendar | 1074–1075 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanbun 3 (寛文3年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3997 |
| Minguo calendar | 248 before ROC 民前248年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2207 |
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Year 1664 (MDCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- January 5 – Battle of Surat: The Maratha Chhatrapati Shivaji defeats Inayat Khan of Mughal.
- June 9 – Kronenbourg Brewery (Brasseries Kronenbourg) is founded.
July–December [edit]
- August 1 – Battle of Saint Gotthard: The Ottoman Empire is defeated by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- September 27 – Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.
- October 28 – The Admiral's Regiment is formed in England, later known as the Royal Marines.
Date unknown [edit]
- The Marathas sack Surat.
- The French East India Company is founded.
- Robert Hooke discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot.[1]
- John Evelyn's Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber is published in London in book form.
Births [edit]
- January 4 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
- January 20 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
- February 6 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
- February 24 (baptized) – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (d. 1729)
- March 12 – Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d. 1718)
- April 6 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
- April 30 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
- May 30 – Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1754)
- July 18 – Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (d. 1732)
- July 21 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
- September 5 – Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England (d. 1718)
- November 9 – Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
Deaths [edit]
- March 16 – Ivan Vyhovsky, Ukrainian Cossack leader
- March 19 – Francisco de Araujo, Spanish theologian (b. 1580)
- March 30 – Guru Har Krishan, Eighth Guru of Sikhism (b. 1656)
- April 4 – Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter (b. 1577)
- May 19 – Elisabeth de Bourbon-Vendôme, French princess (b. 1614)
- May 21 – Elizabeth Poole, Puritan/"foundress"/business woman (b. c. 1599)
- June 2 – Henry II, Duke of Guise (b. 1614)
- June 22 – Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1631)
- July – Jan Janssonius, Dutch cartographer (b. 1588)
- July 16 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
- July 31 – Goschwin Nickel, Jesuit leader (b. 1582)
- August 24 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. 1610)
- August 27 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
- November 2 – George Ghica, Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia (b. 1600)
- December 25 – Niccolò Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino (b. 1613)
- date unknown – Lin Yiu, Chinese poet and painter (b. 1618)
References [edit]
- ^ "Jupiter - The Great Red Spot". Enchanted Learning. Retrieved 2011-11-24.
