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History

1667

Population: 574 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Milton Paradise Lost, Racine, Guillaume Lamoignon compiles Code Louis, Leibniz (law), Samuel Pufendorf (attack on Habsburgs), F.E. de Mezeray (chronology), Thomas Sprat Early History of the Royal Society
Medicine: London's Royal Society transfuses sheep blood into human – surprisingly the human survives
Religion: Death of Pope Alexander VII – Giulio Rospigliosi (Pistoia) becomes Pope Clement IX
Science: Steno (Stensen) dissects shark head and proves "serpent tongue" fossils were really shark teeth
Between 1665 and 1667 Newton had discovered key features of gravitation, light, and calculus
Homilius gives dissertation on unicorn to prove existence
Deaths: Pope Alexander VII, Spanish artist Alonso Cano, Musician Johann Jakob Froberger, Poet Abraham Cowley, Shah Abbas II of Persia, Anne of Austria, Poet George Wither, Sculptor Francesce Borromini, Artist Gebriel Metsu, James Betts hidden in closet from his lover's father and suffocates

General: Secret treaty between Louis XIV and Charles II against Spain
Peace of Breda between Dutch, Denmark, France, and England - Anglo-Dutch war ends
England and Sweden unite against France
Croatia: Quake in Croatia kills 3000 est 7.5
England: Rebuilding Act passes in London
Feltmakers' Company in London incorporated
Earl Clarendon replaced by 5 men
Charles II's minister replaced with Catholic supporter
Dutch fleet defeats English in Medway river
"Mad Madge" Duchess of Newcastle becomes first woman member of Royal Society in London
France: War of Devolution begins as French troops invade Spanish Netherlands
National Observatory in Paris founded
French army uses hand grenades
Jean Baptiste Colbert founds Manufacture Royale
Turenne of France marches into Flanders
German States: Carlo Pallavicino becomes court Kapelmeister in Dresden
Holland: Dutch fleet defeats English in Medway river
Holy Roman Empire: Anne of Austria mother of Louis XIV dies
Poland: War with Russia ends
Portugal: Alfonso VI of Portugal banished to the Azores by brother Pedro the regent
Russia: Shemakha Caucasia (Azerbaijan) quake kills 80,000
Truce of Andrusovo ends 13-year-war between Russia and Poland – Kiev E Ukraine and Smolensk ceded to Russia