1665 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1665?
- March 4, 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- June 3, 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- June 12, 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
- October 5, 1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
- October 29, 1665 – Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
- November 7, 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- December 10, 1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
Who Were Born In The Year 1665?
- February 6, 1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1714)
- February 12, 1665 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
- March 4, 1665 – Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
- April 19, 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
- April 29, 1665 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
- June 4, 1665 – Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
- July 2, 1665 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
- August 21, 1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
- August 27, 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
- December 25, 1665 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746)
- December 28, 1665 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)
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