1667 Calendar
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1667 Historical Event(s)
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 On 1667?
January 5, 1667
– Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740)
April 29, 1667
– John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
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)
September 5, 1667
– Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
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)