Born in 1668:
Died in 1668:
Events of 1668:
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Francesco Redi proposes that maggots hatch from eggs laid by flies,
upsetting the commonly-held view that they arose by spontaneous generation.
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Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope.
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A canal between the Elbe and Oder rivers is built in Brandenburg.
- Edward Lloyd opens a coffeehouse in London.
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John Dryden's play The Maiden Queen appears. English
King Charles II grants him the title 'poet laureate'.
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, aka Molière, writes three plays: Amphitryon,
George Dandin, and The Miser.
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Sir George Etheredge's bawdy play She Wou'd If She Cou'd
appears. He also becomes Charles II's minister to Turkey.
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Louis XIV, having invaded the Spanish Netherlands after claiming that
they automatically devolved upon him when he married his Hapsburg wife
Maria Theresa, has to deal with the war
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João IV Bragança takes the throne of Portugal
and Brazil as Charles II of Spain recognizes its independence; once
the most powerful nation in Europe, Spain is now the most feeble.
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Charles II of England marries Katherine of Portugal, getting Bombay
(now Mumbai) as dowry.
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Father Jacques Marquette builds a mission at Sault du Gastogne, a New
France trading post on Lake Huron, naming it Sault Ste Marie.
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William Penn the Younger is thrown into the Tower of London
for his Quaker writings.
- Ottoman grand vizier Mohammed Koprulu captures Crete for sultan Mehmet IV.
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Jan II Kazimierz Wazy abidcates the throne of Poland.
Jan Sobieski attacks the Tatar/Ottoman army at Podhajce
(in Ruthenia, now extreme wwestern Ukraine) and forces it to withdraw.
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Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb grants the Maratta leader
Shivaji the title of raja.
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A magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes North China and Korea; parts
of Shandong are levelled. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Sind,
30,000 houses in Samaji sink into the ground.
1667 - 1668 - 1669
How They Were Made - 17th Century