- 1664 in England
Events from the year
1664 in theKingdom of England .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Charles II of England Events
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12 March -Province of New Jersey becomes an Englishcolony inNorth America .
*5 April - Passing of theTriennial Act .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=271]
* May - Parliament passes the Conventicle Act against non-conformists.
*18 August - England annexes theNew Netherland colony in North America. The Dutch surrender the city ofNew Amsterdam which is renamed New York.
*8 September - DutchGovernor Peter Stuyvesant surrendersNew Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded byColonel Richard Nicolls .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]Undated
* Construction begins of the
Sheldonian Theatre inOxford as designed byChristopher Wren .Publications
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Robert Hooke publishes "Micrographia " — its magnified images of a flea, a fly's eye and a plant cell turn the book into a best-seller.Births
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24 January - SirJohn Vanbrugh (died 1726)
*28 February -Thomas Newcomen , inventor (died 1729)
*3 July -James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby , politician (died 1736)
*21 July -Matthew Prior , poet and diplomat (died 1721)
*3 September -Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford , peer and politician (died 1723)
*5 September -Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield , daughter of Charles II (died 1718)
*18 October -George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton , (died 1727)
*9 November -Henry Wharton , writer (died 1695)
* "probable" -William Mountfort , actor (died 1692)
*Daniel Purcell , composer (died 1717)Deaths
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20 January -Isaac Ambrose , diarist (born 1604)
* February - John Hoskins, painter (year of birth unknown)
*7 May -John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet , noble (born 1608)
*22 June -Katherine Philips , poet (born 1631)
* August -John Lisle , Regicide of Charles I (born 1610)
*8 October -John Boys , Royalist (born 1607)
*Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet , Parliamentary supporter in the English Civil War (year of birth unknown)
*Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby , Royalist (born 1599)
*Accepted Frewen , Archbishop (born 1588)
*John Goodyer , botanist (born 1592)
* John Hutchinson, Roundhead (born 1615)
*Richard Overton , Leveller (born 1599)References
ee also
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