Explore 207 historical events from 1660–1669.
Ivan V Alekseyevich was Tsar of all Russia between 1682 and 1696, jointly ruling with his younger half-brother Peter I. Ivan was the youngest son of Alexis I of Russia by his first…
Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (died 1696)
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain. The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arra…
Sophia Dorothea of Celle (died 1726)
Antoine Parent was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in thr…
Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (died 1716)
Gaspar Schott was a German Jesuit and scientist, specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy, and known for his industry.
Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (born 1608)
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, PC was an English poet and translator. He was a diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1666. During the English Civ…
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English poet and diplomat, English Ambassador to Spain (born 1608)
Alexander Brome was an English poet.
Alexander Brome, English poet and playwright (born 1620)
Albert VI of Bavaria son of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine, born and died in Munich.
Albert VI, German nobleman (born 1584)
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a Dutch States Navy officer. The French, who could not pronounce his name, called him Kiërkides. His name was also given as Tsjerk, Tierck or Tjerck.
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (born 1622)
Johann Adam Schall von Bell was a German Jesuit, astronomer and instrument-maker. He spent most of his life as a missionary in China and became an adviser to the Shunzhi Emperor of…
Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (born 1591)
Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worsh…
Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (born 1580)
Robert Hubert was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.
Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (born 1640)
Edmund Calamy was an English Presbyterian church leader and divine. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.
Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister and activist (born 1600)
James Shirley was an English poet and playwright. In Charles Lamb's view, Shirley "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in hims…
James Shirley, English dramatist (born 1596)
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that occurred in central London from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday 5 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside…
A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of…
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that occurred in central London from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday 5 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside…
The most destructive damage from the Great Fire of London (depicted) occurred.
Thomas Willett was a Plymouth Colony fur trader, merchant, land purchaser and developer, Captain of the Plymouth Colony militia, Magistrate of the colony, and was the first Mayor o…
Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City
The Battle of Montes Claros was fought on 17 June 1665, near Borba, between Spanish and a combined Anglo-Portuguese force as the last major battle in the Portuguese Restoration War…
Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Rest
Battle of Mbwila occurred on 29 October 1665 in which Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king António I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nka…
Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
Jacques Lelong was a French bibliographer born in Paris. He joined the Knights of Malta at the age of ten, but later joined the Oratorians.
Jacques Lelong, French author (died 1721)
James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Cat…
James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestof
James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, was an Irish statesman and army officer. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormond. Like hi…
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1745)
Count Magnus Stenbock was a Swedish field marshal (Fältmarskalk) and Royal Councillor. A commander of the Carolean Army during the Great Northern War, he was a prominent member of …
Magnus Stenbock, Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (died 1717)
Zacharie Robutel de La Noue was a French lieutenant and captain in the colonial regular troops, and seigneur of Châteauguay. Robutel de La Noue was born in Montreal, New France. He…
Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian captain (died 1733)
Samuel Penhallow was a Cornish colonist, historian, and militia leader in present-day Maine during Queen Anne's War and Dummer's War. He was the commander at Fort Menaskoux and was…
Samuel Penhallow, English-American soldier and historian (died 1726)