This article is about the year 1666.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1630s 1640s 1650s – 1660s – 1670s 1680s 1690s |
Years: | 1663 1664 1665 – 1666 – 1667 1668 1669 |
1666 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1666 MDCLXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2419 |
Armenian calendar | 1115 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6416 |
Bahá'í calendar | -178–-177 |
Bengali calendar | 1073 |
Berber calendar | 2616 |
English Regnal year | 17 Cha. 2 – 18 Cha. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2210 |
Burmese calendar | 1028 |
Byzantine calendar | 7174–7175 |
Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿六日 (4302/4362-11-26) — to —
丙午年十二月初六日(4303/4363-12-6) |
Coptic calendar | 1382–1383 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1658–1659 |
Hebrew calendar | 5426–5427 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1722–1723 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1588–1589 |
- Kali Yuga | 4767–4768 |
Holocene calendar | 11666 |
Iranian calendar | 1044–1045 |
Islamic calendar | 1076–1077 |
Japanese calendar | Kanbun 5 (寛文5年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3999 |
Minguo calendar | 246 before ROC 民前246年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2209 |
Year 1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar. This year is often called Annus Mirabilis and is mentioned in the poem of the same name.
Events
January–June
- January 17 – Chair of St. Peter (Cathedra Petri) set above the Altar in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.[1]
- June 11–June 14 – Second Anglo-Dutch War – Four Days Battle: The Dutch fleet defeats England.
July–December
- July – The city of Piteå in Sweden is completely burned by a large fire
- July 25 (julian calendar)/August 4 (gregorian calendar) – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English fleet defeats the Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter at St. James's Day Battle.
- 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 6 people are known to have died.
- September 5 – The Great Fire of London ends.
- September 6 – Cestui que Vie Act 1666 passed in Parliament
- September 16 – Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi
- December 22 – The Académie des sciences (French Academy of Sciences) is founded by Louis XIV.
Date unknown
- 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). He made a huge number of discoveries and inventions during this year, leading it to be referred to as his Annus Mirabilis.
- 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).
Births
- February 1 – Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (d.1732)
- 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)
- July 23 – Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (d. 1732)
- August 13 – William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
- September 5 – Gottfried Arnold, German church historian (d. 1714)
- September 6 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
- December 26 – Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Guru of Sikhism, Founder and Chief General of the Khalsa Army, social reformist, poet, and revolutionary (d. 1708)
- date unknown – Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall (d. 1706)
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)
- 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)