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Events
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January 20 -
Poland cedes
Kyiv,
Smolensk, and eastern
Ukraine to
Russia in the
Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to
The Deluge (Polish history) The Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a
Central European power (international) power.
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April 27 - The blind, impoverished
John Milton sells the copyright of ''
Paradise Lost'' for £10.
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June 12-17 - In the
Raid on the Medway, a Dutch fleet under admiral
Michiel de Ruyter burns
Sheerness, sails up the
River Medway, raids
Chatham, Kent Chatham dockyards and escapes with the royal barge ''The Royal Charles''.
*
June 15 - The first human
blood transfusion is administered by Dr.
Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a
sheep to a 15-year old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).
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June 20 – Dutch troops attack Royal Navy ships in London and Chatham and burn them.
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July 31 -
Second Anglo-Dutch War ends: The
Treaty of Breda ends the war. The treaty also recognizes
Acadia as a
France French possession.
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October 18 -
Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn is chartered under the name '''Brueckelen''' by
Mathias Nicolls, Governor of
New Netherlands.
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November 25 - Devastating
earthquake rocks
Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
*
Suleiman I becomes
Shah of
Iran Persia.
* The
Mogul Emperor
Aurangzeb buys off the bandit
Shivaji by making him a Rajah and allowing him to collect taxes.
*
Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for
Respiration (physiology) respiration.
* The
War of Devolution begins,
France invades
Flanders and
Franche-Comté.
*
Louis XIV of France abolishes the
Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used
Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates
Gabriel-Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of
Paris.
* French army uses
grenadiers.
*
Yohannes I of Ethiopia Yohannes succeeds his father Fasildos as
Emperor of Ethiopia.
Births
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April 29 -
John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (d.
1735)
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May 26 -
Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d.
1754)
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June 18 -
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d.
1750)
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July 28 -
Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathemiatician (d.
1748)
*
August 11 -
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d.
1743)
*
September 5 -
Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d.
1733)
*
September 28 -
Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d.
1701)
*
November 5 -
Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d.
1719)
*
November 2 -
James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d.
1737)
*
November 30 -
Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (d.
1745)
*
December 9 -
William Whiston, English mathematician (d.
1752)
*
December 25 -
Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Munster
*
Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d.
1740)
Deaths
*
May 2 -
George Wither, English writer (b.
1588)
*
May 7 -
Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b.
1616)
*
May 16 -
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b.
1607)
*
May 22 -
Pope Alexander VII (b.
1599)
*
May 25 -
Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b.
1620)
*
June 5 -
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b.
1607)
*
July 28 -
Abraham Cowley, English poet (b.
1618)
*
August 3 -
Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b.
1599)
*
August 13 -
Jeremy Taylor, Irish clergyman and writer (b.
1613)
*
October 18 - Emperor
Fasilides of Ethiopia
*
November 12 -
Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b.
1598)
*
November 28 -
Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (b.
1633)
*
Antonio Abati, Italian poet
Heads of states
*
France -
Louis XIV of France Louis XIV,
King of France (
1643-
1715)
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