History
1666
General
Population: 572 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Dryden Annus Mirabilis, Moliere Le Misanthrope, Collection of Latin plays published,
John Bunyan (religion), Leibnitz, John Tillotson (faith)
Music includes Heinrich Schutz, Antonio Stradivari labels first violin,
- Food: First Cheddar cheese made
- Religion: First Armenian Bible printed
- Science: Isaac Newton measures moon's orbit and develops calculus and laws of gravity
Redi experiments with spontaneous generation and disproves it
- Technology: Jean Thevenot invents measuring level
- Deaths: Artist Frans Hals, Artist Guercino, Architect François Mansart, Composer Adam Krieger
Americas
- General: French capture Antigua Montserrat and St. Christopher
Cyclone hits Lesser Antilles kills thousands
- Tobago: English privateers take Tobago
Europe
- General: France and Dutch declare war on England – Dutch sign treaty of alliance with "Great Elector"
Quadruple Alliance of Brandenburg, Brunswick, Denmark, and Holland to secure safety of Holland
- England: Great London fire destroys half of city but only injures six – lasts 4 days destroying 87 buildings and 13,000 homes –
stopped by blowing up buildings in its path – Samuel Pepys includes eyewitness account in diary - possibly helped end plague
Cricket Club founded at St. Alband in Hertfordshire
Plague ends
- France: Gobelin workshops established in Paris by Colbert
French Academy of Sciences created
- German States: Treaty of Cleves between Brandenburg and Neuberg for partition of Julich-Cleves
Marc Antonio Cesti made court Kapellmeister (musician)
- Holy Roman Empire: Hungarian noblemen revolt against Emperor Leopold I
- Russia: "Raskol" (Great Schism) breaks out in Russian Church
East
- Puritans from CT settle in NJ
Smallpox outbreak in New England
Midwest
- Robert de la Salle explores Great Lakes for France