1664

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Year '1664' ('MDCLXIV') was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1664

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1664

January - June

★ January 5 - Battle of Surat. This was a land battle that took place on January 5, 1664 near the city of Surat, Gujarat, India between the Maratha Chhatrapati Shivaji and the Inayat Khan of Mughal.

★ March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England.

★ May 4 - Kronenbourg, a popular lager, is first produced.

July - December

★ August 1 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

★ September 24 - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.

★ October 28 - The Admirals Regiment is formed, later known as Royal Marines.

Undated

★ The French East India Company is founded.

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)

★ April 6 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)

★ April 30 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)

★ May 21 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1754)

★ July 21 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)

★ November 9 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
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Deaths

★ May 21 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan/"foundress"/business woman (born c.1599)

★ June 22 - Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (d. 1631)

★ July 16 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)

★ August 24 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (born 1610)

★ August 27 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
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