- 1664
Year 1664 (MDCLXIV) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or aleap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1664
January - June
*January 5 - Battle ofSurat : The Maratha ChhatrapatiShivaji is defeated by the Inayat Khan of Mughal.
*March 12 -New Jersey becomes acolony of England.
*May 4 -Kronenbourg , a popular lager, is first produced.July - December
*August 1 -Battle of Saint Gotthard : TheOttoman Empire is defeated by an Austrian army led byRaimondo Montecuccoli , resulting in thePeace of Vasvár .
*September 24 - DutchGovernor Peter Stuyvesant surrendersNew Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded byColonel Richard Nicolls .
*October 28 - The Admirals Regiment is formed, later known as theRoyal Marines .Undated
* TheFrench East India Company is founded.
* TheMarathas sackSurat .Births
*January 4 -Lars Roberg , Swedish physician (d.1742 )
*January 20 -Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina , Italian writer and jurist (d.1718 )
*February 6 -Mustafa II ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1703 )
*February 24 (baptized) -Thomas Newcomen , English inventor (d.1729 )
*March 12 -Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d.1718 )
*April 6 -Arvid Horn , Swedish statesman (d.1742 )
*April 30 -François Louis, Prince of Conti , French general (d.1709 )
*May 30 -Giulio Alberoni , Italian cardinal and statesman (d.1754 )
*July 18 -Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg , Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (d.1732 )
*July 21 -Matthew Prior , English poet and diplomat (d.1721 )
*September 5 -Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield , illegitimate daughter of KingCharles II of England (d.1718 )
*November 9 -Henry Wharton , English writer (d.1695 )Deaths
*March 16 -Ivan Vyhovsky , Ukrainian Cossack leader
*March 19 -Francisco de Araujo , Spanish theologian (b.1580 )
*March 30 -Guru Har Krishan , Eighth Guru of Sikhism (b.1656 )
*April 4 -Adam Willaerts , Dutch painter (b.1577 )
*May 19 -Elisabeth de Bourbon-Vendôme , French princess (b.1614 )
*May 21 -Elizabeth Poole , Puritan/"foundress"/business woman (b. c.1599 )
*June 2 -Henry II, Duke of Guise (b.1614 )
*June 22 -Katherine Philips , Anglo-Welsh poet (b.1631 )
*July -Jan Janssonius , Dutch cartographer (b.1588 )
*July 16 -Andreas Gryphius , German writer (b.1616 )
*July 31 -Goschwin Nickel , Jesuit leader (b.1582 )
*August 24 -Maria Cunitz , Silesian astronomer (born1610 )
*August 27 -Francisco Zurbarán , Spanish painter (b.1598 )
*December 25 -Niccolò Ludovisi , Prince of Piombino (b.1613 )
* Lin Yiu, Chinese poet and painter (b.1618 )
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