What Happened In 1666 - Historical Events 1666

Historical Events for the Year 1666

13th January » French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
3rd September » The Royal Exchange, London e.g Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.
4th September » In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire of London or Great Fire occurs.
28th November » At least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

17th January » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
9th February » George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (d. 1737)
15th March » George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (d. 1738)
18th April » Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747)
25th April » Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer (d. 1727)
14th May » Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
10th July » John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
6th August » Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)
13th August » William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (d. 1727)
5th September » Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
6th September » Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
15th September » Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
16th September » Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716)
1st November » James Sherard, English botanist (d. 1738)
5th November » Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
25th November » Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
5th December » Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1741)
22nd December » Guru Gobind Singh, Indian guru and poet (d. 1708)

20th January » Anne of Austria (b. 1601)
22nd January » Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (b. 1592)
24th January » Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
24th February » Nicholas Lanier, English composer and painter (b. 1588)
22nd May » Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
16th June » Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English poet and diplomat, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Spain named English Ambassador to Spain (b. 1608)
30th June » Alexander Brome, English poet and playwright (b. 1620)
5th July » Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
15th August » Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
26th August » Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. 1580)
27th October » Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
29th October » Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister (b. 1600)