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Year '1665' ('MDCLXV') was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1665

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1665

January - June

★ March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

★ March 6 - ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' begins publication.

★ March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders.

★ April 12 - Margaret Porteous dies. She is the first person who was recorded to die of plague in the Great Plague of London. This last outbreak of Bubonic plague in London was possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die.

★ June 3 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

★ June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

★ June 30 - King Charles II of England issues a second charter for the Province of Carolina, which clarifies and expands the borders of the Lords Proprietors' tracts.

July - December

★ July 3 - The first documented case of cyclopia is found in a horse.

★ July 7 - King Charles II of England leaves London with his entourage, fleeing the Great Plague. He moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter.

★ September 17 - Charles II of Spain becomes King.

★ October 5 - The University of Kiel is founded.

★ October 29 - Battle of Mbwila: Portuguese forces defeat and kill king António I of Kongo.

★ November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

Undated

★ Molière publishes ''L'Amour médecin''.

★ John Bunyan publishes ''The Resurrection'', ''Alexendre Le Grand'', and ''The Indian Emperor''.

★ Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot.

★ ''Ye Bare & Ye Cubbe'', the first play in English in the American colonies, is performed in Pungoteague, Virginia.

Births

★ February 6 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (died 1714)

★ February 12 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (died 1721)

★ March 4 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (died 1694)

★ April 19 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (died 1721)

★ April 29 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (died 1745)

★ June 4 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (died 1733)

★ July 2 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (died 1726)

★ August 21 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (died 1729)

★ August 27 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (died 1751)

★ December 25 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (died 1746)

★ December 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (died 1716)
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Deaths

★ January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (born 1601)

★ January 31 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (born 1622)

★ June 13 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (born 1604)

★ June 25 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (born 1630)

★ July 11 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (born 1603)

★ July 18 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (born 1599)

★ September 12 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (born 1596)

★ September 17 - King Philip IV of Spain (born 1605)

★ September 25 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (born 1610)

★ November 17 - John Earle (bishop), English bishop (born 1601)

★ November 19 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (born 1594)

★ December 2 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (born 1588)

★ December 10 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (born c.1594)
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