1666 Calendar
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1666 Historical Event(s)
August 19, 1666
– Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as “Holmes’s Bonfire”.
September 2, 1666
– The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
September 3, 1666
– The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
September 4, 1666
– In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
September 5, 1666
– Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
November 28, 1666
– At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
Who Were Born On 1666?
January 17, 1666
– Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
February 9, 1666
– George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
March 15, 1666
– George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
May 14, 1666
– Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
August 6, 1666
– Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699)
August 13, 1666
– William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
September 6, 1666
– Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
September 15, 1666
– Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
September 16, 1666
– Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
December 22, 1666
– Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)