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What Happened In Year 1667?

• January 30, 1667 – The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
• April 6, 1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
• April 27, 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• June 9, 1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• June 15, 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
• July 31, 1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
• November 25, 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.

Who Were Born In The Year 1667?

• January 5, 1667 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740)
• April 29, 1667 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
• May 26, 1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
• June 18, 1667 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
• July 2, 1667 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
• July 27, 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
• August 11, 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Florentine patroness of the arts, the last scion of the House of Medici (d. 1743)
• August 28, 1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
• September 5, 1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
• September 28, 1667 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
• October 28, 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
• November 2, 1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
• November 5, 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
• November 30, 1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
• December 9, 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
• December 25, 1667 – Ehrengard von der Schulenburg, English royal mistress (d. 1743)

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