1666
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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 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1666 MDCLXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2419 |
Armenian calendar | 1115 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԵ |
Chinese calendar | 4302/4362-11-26 (乙巳年十一月廿六日) — to —
4303/4363-12-6(丙午年十二月初六日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1658 – 1659 |
Hebrew calendar | 5426 – 5427 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1721 – 1722 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1588 – 1589 |
- Kali Yuga | 4767 – 4768 |
Iranian calendar | 1044 – 1045 |
Islamic calendar | 1077 – 1078 |
Japanese calendar | Kanbun 5 (寛文5年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2326 (皇紀2326年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11666 |
Thai solar calendar | 2209 |
1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). Often called Annus Mirabilis, this is the year talked about by the poem Annus Mirabilis. This year also saw a great advance in mathematics and physics by Isaac Newton. The year is also known for having all the Roman numerals used in order from biggest to smallest value.
[edit] Events
- August 5 - English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter.
- 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 three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
- September 5 - Great Fire of London ends.
- Sir Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into its component colors, which helped us understand the nature of light more comprehensively. (See optical spectrum).
- Lund University founded in Lund, Sweden.
- Jean Talon completes a census of New France, the first census in North America.
- Louis XIV founds the French Academy of Sciences.
[edit] Births
- 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 22 - Guru Gobind Singh (d. 1708)
- Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall (d. 1706)
- John Quelch - English pirate (d. 1704)
- Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (d. 1732)
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (born 1601)
- January 22 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1592)
- January 24 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (born 1588)
- February 24 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (born 1588)
- June 30 - Alexander Brome, English poet (born 1620)
- July 5 - Albert VI of Bavaria (born 1584)
- August 15 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (born 1591)
- August 26 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter (born 1580)
- October 29 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (born 1600)
- October 29 - James Shirley, English dramatist (born 1596)
- Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter (born 1591)
- Sir William Clarke, British politician
- Sir Richard Fanshawe, British diplomat and translator (born 1608)
- Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (born 1627)
- James Howell, British writer (born c.1594)