History
1664
General
Population: 568 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Dryden (tragicomedy), SIr George Etherege (comedy), Molière, Racine, John Evelyn Sylvia
Art includes Pieter de Hooch "Young Woman Weighing Gold", Poussin "Apollo and Daphne", Jan Stern "The Christening Feast", Vermeer "The Lacemaker"
Music includes Heinrich Schutz, French horn becomes orchestral instrument
- Fashion: French furniture prevails in European castles
Introduction of large wig style (periwig)
- Medicine: Thomas Willis writes about the anatomy of the nervous system and brain anatomy
- Deaths: Dramatist Andreas Gryphius, Hungarian hero Miklos Zrinyi, Artist Francisco de Zurbaran,
Africa
- General: Swedish colonies on Gold Coast sold to Dutch
Americas
- General: French East India Company founded
France owns 14 Caribbean islands
Asia
- Japan: Japanese develop express mail system
- Siam: Dutch force king of Thailand to give them monopoly of deerskin exports
Europe
- General: Alliance between France and Brandenburg
- England: Great Plague of London begins
Conventicle Act against nonconformists forbids meetings of more than five people
Christopher Wren helps design Sheldonian Theater in Oxford
First Royal Marine Regiment
- France: The Trappist Order founded in Normandy
"Compagnie des Indes Occidentales" formed to control French trade in Canada, S America, W Africa, and W Indies
France tries to impose national tariffs against Dutch trade
- Holy Roman Empire: Truce of Vasvar – Austrians under Count Raimund Montecucculi defeat Turks at St. Gotthard on Raab River
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Truce of Vasvar – Austrians defeat Turks at St. Gotthard on Raab River
General
- Religion: First women condemned as witches in New World
East
- General: New Netherlands from Connecticut to Deleware becomes British
- Connecticut: Union of Connecticut and New Haven
- New Jersey: Land given to John Berkeley and George Carteret
- New York: English capture New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York - Peter Stuyvesant surrenders
Fort Orange surrendered and is renamed Albany
Territory given to brother of King Charles II the Duke of York