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Events
- Charles II of Spain becomes King.
- London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die. (See the Great Plague of London.)
- Rumours abound that syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the brothels.
- Battle of Ambuila: Portuguese forces defeat and kill king Garcia II of Kongo, ending native rule of that kingdom.
- Molière publishes L'Amour médecin.
- John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection, Alexendre Le Grand, and The Indian Emperor.
- Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot.
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January
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February
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March
- March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- March 6 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication.
- March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders.
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April
Margaret Porteous dies. she is the first person who was recorded to die of plague in the great plague of london
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May
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June
- June 3 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- June 15 - Jean-Baptiste Denis makes the first blood transfusion from lamb to human.
- June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
- June 30 - King Charles II of England issues a second charter for the Province of Carolina, which clarifies and expands the borders of the Lords Proprietors' tracts.
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July
- July 7 - King Charles II of England leaves London with his entourage, fleeing the Great Plague. He moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter
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August
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September
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October
- October 5 - The University of Kiel is founded.
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November
- November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
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December
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Births
- February 6 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
- February 12 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
- March 4 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier
- April 19 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
- April 29 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
- June 4 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
- July 2 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
- August 21 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
- August 27 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
- December 25 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
- December 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (d. 1716)
See also Category:1665 births.
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Deaths
- January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)
- January 31 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
- June 13 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
- June 25 - Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
- July 11 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (b. 1603)
- July 18 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (b. 1599)
- September 12 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
- September 17 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
- September 25 - Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
- November 17 - John Earle, English bishop
- November 19 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter
- December 2 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
- December 10 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
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