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This page relates to the year 1666 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Quebec: An army of 1 300 men demolishes the Iroquois with the autumn. The treaty which follows recognizes the sovereignty of the king of France and ensures the colony 16 years of peaceful development.
In News-France, the first census in North America made it possible to count 3 215 inhabitants of European ascent, is 2 034 men and 1 181 women.
Tortola (the Antilles) is colonized by England.

Mulay Rachid, originating in the Tafilalet, seizes Fès and Marrakech to the Morocco and founds the dynasty of the Alaouides or hassanienne. It is made proclaim sultan with Fès after having conquered the Rif, then undertakes the conquest of all Morocco.

Reign of Mukomboué Alfonso, Monomotapa of the Karanga, with the Mozambique. The kingdom of Karanga declines quickly and Portugal influences it decreases in the country.

May 9th: Shivaji goes to the court Agra. Captive fact, it manages to escape and join its bases the October 30th.

January: Jewish demonstrations of in Poland and Lithuania with the advertisement of the arrival of the Messiah Shabbetaï Zevi with Izmir. Riots burst. In May, the king prohibits the demonstrations.
January 26th: The France declares the war with the England, then in conflict with the United Provinces.
11 - June 14th: Victoire of the Dutch admiral of Ruyter on the English fleet with the Battle the Four Days.
4 - August 5th: English Victoire on the Netherlands with the Battle of the Saint-Jacob.
August 9th: “Holmes' S Bonfire”. English raid on the Netherlands in Plank (Vlieland and Terschelling).
2 - September 5th: Grand fire of London which destroys the city with 80% but puts an end to the epidemic of plague which had begun the previous year.
September 3rd: Foundation of the Town of Charleroi, currently in the Province of Hainaut, in Belgium.
November 15th: Peace of Habenhausen between the Sweden (Carl Gustaf Wrangel) and Bremen.
December 5th: Léopold I {{er}} wife the infante Marguerite of Spain.

Casimir V of Poland, by the convention of Legnica, is committed giving up any anticipated royal election.
In Russia, the Cosaques of the hetman Vaska devastate the provinces of Voronej and Toula, training with them the peasants in revolt against the landowners.
the government of Low-Austria prohibits the access of the country the noncatholic abroads.
Dryness in the south-east of the England.
Turbid in Scotland.

March 22nd: The king decides a great “search for nobility” (fine in 1674). The king controls rigorously the access to the nobility and sells offices anoblissant.
May 13rd: Maistre de Sacy is imprisoned with the Bastille for Jansénisme (fine the October 21st 1668).
July 29th: Beginning of the construction of the port of This.
October 14th: Edict for the installation of the channel of the Two-Seas.
December 22nd: Inaugural session of the Academy of Science, created by Colbert on the model of the Royal Society .

Mars: Bossuet sermon the Lent of Saint-Germain in front of Louis XIV.
November 18th, Russia: New council which condemns Nikon to personal capacity but approves the ideas of “hellenistic”. The dissidents traditionalists, or raskolniki , are declared schismatic. Million Old Believers ( staroviéri ), led by the Avvakoum archpriest, is excluded from a complete participation in the Russian life and often off-set in Siberia.
December 12th: The tsar makes deposit the patriarch of Moscow Nikita Nikon which reformed the liturgy while taking as a starting point the Greek orthodoxy. A sharp opposition, the Raskol (schism), directed by the archpriest Avvakoum, joins together the Old Believers .

Philipp Jakob Spener becomes first Pasteur of Francfort-sur-le-Main.
Explanation of the edict of Nantes , Pierre Bernard, adviser with the présidial of Béziers, hostile with the huguenots.

December 19th: Foundation of the University of Lund.
Under the impulse of Colbert, the library of the king passes from 11 000 printed with 36 000 of 1666 with 1682.
Molière written to the Misanthropist , Mélicerte and the Doctor in spite of him .
Satires I to VI of Boileau.
the middle-class Novel of Furetière.
Talks on the lives and the works of the most excellent old and modern painters of Félibien.

July 29th: Beginning of the construction of the Channel of the South, directed by the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet and will be completed in 1681.
December 22nd: Foundation of the royal Academy of sciences by Louis XIV of France. Huygens is the principal member. It is devoted to the Mathématiques, with the Astronomie, the Cartographie, the Botanique, the Anatomie and the Chimie. It will receive its Statuts only in 1699.
the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens observes an eclipse of Sun.

Isaac Newton discovers the law of the gravitation, the colors of the spectrum and the differential Calculus.
Of combinative Art ( De Arte Combinatoria ), of Leibniz.

Premières Assurance S sets fire to following the fire of London.
In France, promulgation of a law aiming at raising the rate of the births.
regular Growth of the wool production in France until in 1692 (0,58% per annum).
Colbert dissolves by stop of the Council the Guilde of the linen tisserands of the Mans, in order to open their trade with the newcomers in the rural areas of the Maine and the Alençonnais.

January 20th: Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII. Its funeral oration was pronounced by Bossuet in 1667, but was lost.
January 31st: Shah Jahan, emperor moghol of the Indies, prisoner of his son Aurangzeb in the strong red of Agra.
August 26th: Frans Halls, Dutch painter
September 23rd: François Mansart, French architect
Jean Ogier de Gombauld, French poet (1588-1666).

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