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1667

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File:LeBrun Louis XIV at Douai in the War of Devolution 1667.jpg: The War of Devolution begins after Spain's King Philip IV reneges on a promised dowry to France's King Louis XIV.]]

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File:Dutch Attack on the Medway, June 1667 van Soest RMG BHC0295.jpg–14: Raid on the Medway]]File:Arrival of the Brides - Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.pngThe King's Daughters arrive in New France.]]{{Year article header|1667}}

Events

= January–March =

= April–June =

  • April 6 – The 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake in the Republic of Ragusa (part of modern-day Croatia) kills as many as 5,000 people, roughly one sixth of the population, and levels most of the buildings in Dubrovnik.
  • April 27 – The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons, for an initial payment of £5.Equivalent to approximately £7,400 income in 2008. {{cite web|url=http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/|work=MeasuringWorth|year=2010|title=Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to Present|access-date=2011-03-13}}{{cite ODNB|first=Gordon|last=Campbell|title=Milton, John (1608–1674)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18800|access-date=2013-07-05|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/18800|quote=The sums involved are modest but quite normal.}}{{cite journal|last=Lindenbaum|first=Peter|year=1995|title=Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations|journal=The Library|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=s6-17|issue=3|pages=250–269|issn=0024-2160|doi=10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250}} The first edition is published in October and sells out in eighteen months.{{cite web|url=http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/milton.asp|title=John Milton's Paradise Lost|publisher=Morgan Library & Museum|access-date=2011-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721174000/http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/milton.asp|archive-date=July 21, 2011|url-status=dead}}
  • May 1 – A Dutch flotilla under Admiral van Ghent enters the Firth of Forth.{{cite book|authorlink=Jenny Uglow|first=Jenny|last=Uglow|title=A Gambling Man|location=London|publisher=Faber|year=2010|orig-year=2009|isbn=978-0-571-21734-2|pages=406–26}}
  • May 8 – Prince Prithviraj Singh, eldest son of the Maharaja Jaswant Singh of the Kingdom of Marwar (within India's Mughal Empire, part of the modern-day Rajasthan state) dies painfully at the age of 14, supposedly after putting on a khalat (a ceremonial robe) given to him by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. According to the folklore of Marwar, the khalat was actually a garment infused with poison that penetrated the skin.
  • May 22 – Fabio Chigi, Pope Alexander VII, dies at the age of 68 after a reign of 12 years. The election to find a successor opens on June 2.
  • May 24 – After King Philip IV of Spain reneges on payment of a large dowry to King Louis XIV of France, promised to Louis as a gift for Louis' marriage to Philip's daughter Princess Maria Theresa, the War of Devolution begins between France and Spain. The French Army invades the Spanish Netherlands (modern-day Belgium), entering Flanders and Franche-Comté. By the time the war ends on May 2, 1668, parts of the Spanish Netherlands are ceded to France.
  • June 15 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.{{cite journal|title=The history of peripheral intravenous catheters: How little plastic tubes revolutionized medicine|first=A. M.|last=Rivera|display-authors=etal|journal=Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica|volume=56|year=2005|issue=3 |page=273|pmid=16265830 }} He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).
  • June 19–24 – The raid on the Medway in England is carried out when a fleet from the Dutch Republic under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter takes Sheerness fort, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard, and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.{{cite book |last1=Palmer |first1=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=190–191 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
  • June 20 – Giulio Rospigliosi is elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed the late Pope Alexander VII, after receiving 61 of the 64 votes of the cardinals present. He takes the regnal name Pope Clement IX, becoming the 238th head of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • June 26 – Louis XIV of France conquers Tournai.
  • June 27 – George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, one of the five members of the Cabal ministry in England (Lords Chudleigh, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley and Lauderdale), turns himself in after a warrant for his arrest is issued on February 25 on charges of treason (including the casting of the horoscope of King Charles II). He is held in the Tower of London for four years before being released on July 17, 1671.

= July–September =

  • July 31 – Second Anglo-Dutch War – The Treaty of Breda ends the war by England against the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark and Norway. In the Americas, the Dutch retain control of Surinam, the English retain New Netherland and the French Acadia.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html |title=Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667 |encyclopedia=Military History Encyclopedia on the Web |access-date=2012-08-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909055834/http://historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html |archive-date=September 9, 2011 }}{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|url=https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|author-link=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}
  • August 5 – The province of Holland in the Dutch Republic passes the "Perpetual Edict" declaring that it will no longer acknowledge the authority of the republic's Stadtholder, and other provinces soon follow suit.
  • August 10 – The Siege of Lille, at this time part of the Spanish Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) begins and becomes the only major engagement of the "War of Devolution" between France and Spain. The Spanish Army surrenders after 16 days.
  • August 15
  • The League of the Rhine is dissolved by agreement of its members, nine years and one day after its formation as a military alliance between German kingdoms in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire."Der Rheinbund und seine Geschichte" ("The Rhine League and its Story"), by W. Bohm, in Zeitschrift für Preußische Geschichte und Landeskunde ("Journal for Prussian History and Regional Studies"), ed. by Rudolph Foss (Verlag von U. Bath, 1868) p. 250 ("Der Rheinbund war am 15. August 1667 abgelaufen, ohne prolongirt zu sein."- "The Confederation of the Rhine expired on August 15, 1667, without being extended.")
  • John Dryden's comedy Sir Martin Mar-all, or The Feign'd Innocence is given its first performance, presented by the players of the King's Theatre in London.
  • August 18 – In an effort to prevent narrow streets from being blocked from all light by tall buildings, the city of Paris enacts its first building code limiting the height of new construction. Buildings may be no taller than eight toise – {{convert|15.6|m}} – tall. In 1783, rules are implemented to consider the width of the street.
  • August 24 – The Treaty of Breda goes into effect after having been signed on July 31, bringing an end to hostilities between England and its three opponents.
  • August 25 – In China, 14-year-old Xuanye, the Kangxi Emperor, participates in an ascension ceremony to take full power to rule China, bringing an end to the domination of the "Four Regents" who had been ruling in his name when he had first inherited the throne at the age of 6. The move comes shortly after the August 12 death of one of the regents, Sonin, when it becomes clear that the regents were planning to expand their power in advance of Kangxi's coming of age.
  • September 6 – The "Dreadful Hurricane of 1667" ravages southeast Virginia, bringing 12 days of rain, blowing down plantation homes and stripping fields of crops.

= October–December =

= Date unknown =

  • After Shivaji's escape, hostilities between the Marathas and the Mughals ebb, with Mughal sardar Jaswant Singh acting as intermediary between Shivaji and Aurangzeb for new peace proposals.
  • The first military campaign of Stenka Razin is conducted in Russia.
  • The French army uses grenadiers.
  • Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.
  • Isaac Newton has investigated and written on optics, acoustics, the infinitesimal calculus, mechanism and thermodynamics. The works will be published only years later.

Births

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Deaths

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