1666

	1666 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s 1640s 1650s – 1660s – 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years:	1663 1664 1665 – 1666 – 1667 1668 1669

Year 1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1666

January 17 – Chair of St. Peter set above the Altar at Cathedra Petri, Vatican City.[1]
June 11–June 14 – Second Anglo-Dutch War – Four Days Battle: The Dutch fleet defeats England.

The city of Piteå in Sweden is completely burned by a large fire
July 25 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English fleet defeats the Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter at St. James's Day Battle.
August 5 – St. James's Day Battle: An English fleet defeats the Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter.
August 9 – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later referred to as Holmes's Bonfire.
September 2 – Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for 3 days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died. People claim that it is the Devil's deed, for 1666 contains 666.
[September 6] – Cestui que Vie Act 1666 passed in Parliament
September 5 – The Great Fire of London ends.
September 16 – Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi
December 22 – The Académie des sciences (French Academy of Sciences) is founded by Louis XIV.

Expulsion of the Portuguese from the Bengal port city of Chittagong by Mughal forces of Emperor Aurangzeb under General Bujurg Umed Khan and renaming the city as Islamabad.
Sir Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into its component colors, which helps us understand the nature of light more comprehensively (see optical spectrum).
Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer paints The Art of Painting, his largest and most complex work.
Lund University is founded in Lund, Sweden.
Moulay al-Rashid conquers Fes, marking the beginning of Morocco's still-reigning Alaouite Dynasty.
Jean Talon completes a census of New France, the first census in North America.
The Russian Orthodox Church holds a sobor (church council) which deposes Patriarch Nikon, but accepts his liturgical reforms. Dissenters from his reforms, known as Old Believers, continue to this day.
The year is also known for having all the Roman numerals, used only once, in order from biggest to smallest value (MDCLXVI = 1666).

February 9 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
March 15 – George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
May 14 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
July 10 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
August 13 – William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
September 6 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
December 26 – Guru Gobind Singh, Punjabi scholar, theologian, social reformist, poet, head of a faith, representative of an ethnicity and a military head (d. 1708)
date unknown
- Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall (d. 1706)
- Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (d. 1732)

See also Category: 1666 births.

See also Category: 1666 deaths.

January 20 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)
January 22 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
January 24 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
June 14 – Tierck Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)
June 16 – Sir Richard Fanshawe, British diplomat and translator (b. 1608)

Tierck Hiddes

June 30 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
July 5 – Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
August 15 – Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
August 26 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. 1580)
October 29 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
October 29 – James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
December 9 – Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino), Italian painter (b. 1591)
date unknown
- Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (b. 1627)
- James Howell, British writer (b. c. 1594)
- Song Yingxing, Chinese encyclopedist (b. 1587)

Often called Annus Mirabilis, the year 1666 is mentioned in the poem Annus Mirabilis. Charles the second was king at the time