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Year '1667' ('MDCLXVII') was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1667

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Heads of states

Events of 1667

January - June

★ January 20 - Poland cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) and Poland's status as a Central European power.

★ March 27 - In North America (Canada), explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

★ June 15 - Jean-Baptiste Denis makes the first blood transfusion from lamb to human.

★ April 27 - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of ''Paradise Lost'' for £10.

★ May 24 - The War of Devolution begins, France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté.

★ June 12-17 - In the Raid on the Medway, a Dutch fleet under admiral Michiel de Ruyter burns Sheerness, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham dockyards and escapes with the royal barge ''The Royal Charles''.

★ June 15 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).

★ June 20

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★ Dutch troops attack Royal Navy ships in London and Chatham and burn them.

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★ Pope Clement IX succeeds Pope Alexander VII as the 238th pope.

July - December

★ July 31 - Second Anglo-Dutch War ends: The Treaty of Breda ends the war. The treaty also recognizes Acadia as a French possession.

★ October 18

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★ Brooklyn is chartered under the name ''"Brueckelen"'' by Mathias Nicolls, Governor of New Netherlands.

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★ Yohannes I becomes king of the Ethiopia following the death of Negus Fasilides.

★ November 25 - Devastating earthquake rocks Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.

Undated

★ Suleiman I becomes Shah of Persia.

★ The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb buys off the bandit Shivaji by making him a Rajah and allowing him to collect taxes.

★ Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.

★ Louis XIV of France abolishes the Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of Paris.

★ French army uses grenadiers.

★ Yohannes succeeds his father Fasildos as Emperor of Ethiopia.

Births

★ April 29 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (died 1735)

★ May 26 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (died 1754)

★ June 18 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (died 1750)

★ July 28 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathemiatician (died 1748)

★ August 11 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (died 1743)

★ September 5 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (died 1733)

★ September 28 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (died 1701)

★ November 2 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (died 1737)

★ November 5 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (died 1719)

★ November 30 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (died 1745)

★ December 9 - William Whiston, English mathematician (died 1752)

★ December 25 - Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Munster (died 1743)

★ exact date unknown - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (died 1683)

★ ''probable'' - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (died 1740)
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Deaths

★ May 2 - George Wither, English writer (born 1588)

★ May 7 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (born 1616)

★ May 16 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (born 1607)

★ May 22 - Pope Alexander VII (born 1599)

★ May 25 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (born 1620)

★ June 5 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (born 1607)

★ July 28 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (born 1618)

★ August 3 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (born 1599)

★ August 13 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish clergyman and writer (born 1613)

★ October 18 - Emperor Fasilides of Ethiopia (born 1603)

★ November 12 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (born 1598)

★ November 28 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (born 1633)

★ ''date unknown'' - Antonio Abati, Italian poet
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Heads of states

★ France - Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)