This article is about the year 1664. For the Kronenbourg beer, see
1664 (beer) .
Calendar year
September 8 : The Dutch city ofNew Amsterdam , capital of the colony ofNew Netherland , is surrendered to invading English Army troops, who rename the city and the colony "New York" forThe Duke of York .August 1 :Battle of Saint Gotthard 1664 (MDCLXIV ) was aleap year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1664th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 64th year of the17th century , and the 5th year of the1660s decade. As of the start of 1664, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 5 –Battle of Surat in India: TheMaratha leader, ChhatrapatiShivaji , defeats theMughal Army Captain Inayat Khan, and sacksSurat .January 7 – Indian entrepreneurVirji Vora , described in the 17th century by the English East India Company as the richest merchant in the world, suffers the loss of a large portion of his wealth when the Maratha troops of Shivaji plunder his residence at Surat and his business warehouses.February 2 –Jesuit missionaryJohann Grueber arrives inRome after a 214-day journey that had started inBeijing , proving that commerce can be had between Europe and Asia by land rather than ship.February 12 – The Treaty of Pisa is signed between France and the Papal States to bring an end to theCorsican Guard Affair that began on August 20, 1662, when the French ambassador was shot and killed by soldiers in the employ of Pope Alexander VII.February 14 – A peace treaty is signed inTurin inItaly to end theWar of the Banished between theDuchy of Savoy and theWaldensians .February 26 –Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy , appointed by KingLouis XIV ofFrance as Lieutenant Général of the Americas, departs from the port ofLa Rochelle with 1,200 men and seven ships to expand France's property in the Caribbean Sea and in South America.March 12 – KingCharles II of England makes royal charter for territory in North America that leases to his brother,James, Duke of York , a patent for a large amount of land in what is now the northeastern United States. According to the Charter, James receives "all that part of the mayne land ofNew England " between "New Scotland in America " and the river of Kenebeque", along with "Mattowacks orLong Island " and "Martins Vineyard and Nantukes", and the lands between the "Connecticutte andHudsons rivers" and the lands "from the west side of "Connecticutte to the east sideDe la Warre Bay ". The lease, which includes the territory claimed by the Dutch Republic asNew Netherland is for most of the U.S. state ofMaine and parts ofConnecticut ,New York ,New Jersey andPennsylvania .[ 1] March 19 – Polish astronomerJan Heweliusz becomes the first native of Poland to be inducted into England's Royal Society.April 14 – All grants to the Compagnie des Isles de l'Amerique for development of French-claimed islands in the Caribbean Sea are revoked by KingLouis XIV , including the rights to the islands ofMartinique andSaint Lucia that had been sold toMarie Bonnard du Parquet prior to her death in 1659.April 28 –Juan Alonso de Cuevas y Dávalos is appointed as the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico byPope Alexander VII , to allow ArchbishopMateo de Sagade de Bugueyro to return toSpain . Archbishop Cuevas is installed on November 15 upon his arrival in Mexico City.May 9 –Robert Hooke discoversJupiter 'sGreat Red Spot .[ 2] May 12 – The original version ofTartuffe Molière , is given its first performance, staged at thePalace of Versailles May 15 –Guerin Spranger , commander of the Dutch fortress atCayenne in South America, surrenders without a fight to French commanderAlexandre de Prouville de Tracy and 1,200 employees of theCompagnie de la France équinoxiale , giving France control of the territory that becomes the colony ofFrench Guiana .[ 3] May 28 – King Louis XIV of France establishes the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales by royal decree to replace the recently cancelled Compagnie des Isles de l'Amerique.June 3 – In the city ofMantua inItaly , the world's oldest continuously published private newspaper,Gazzetta di Mantova 2014 .[ 4] [ 5] June 5 – Thesiege of the Croatian fortress atNovi Zrin (located near the village ofDonja Dubrava inCroatia near its border withHungary ). After a 32-day defense, the Croatian defenders surrender to troops of theOttoman Empire .June 9 –Kronenbourg Brewery (Brasseries Kronenbourg) is founded inStrasbourg .June 24 – TheSecond Anglo-Dutch War carries over to North America as soldiers of the English Army invade the Dutch colony ofNew Netherland , promised by King Charles II of England to his brother, the Duke of York. By October, the Dutch Republic surrenders the colony to the English and New Netherland (and its largest city,New Amsterdam ) are renamed in honor of York.August 1 –Battle of Saint Gotthard : TheOttoman Empire is defeated by aHabsburg army, led byRaimondo Montecuccoli , leading to thePeace of Vasvár .August 11 –Sir John Lisle , a former member of the English House of Commons who had been designated aregicide for his role in signing the death warrant in the execution in1649 ofCharles I of England , is assassinated in a church courtyard inLausanne in Switzerland. Lisle had gone into exile after therestoration of the monarchy in 1660 . The shooting of Lisle, done on order ofKing Charles II , is carried out by a team led by royal agentJames Cotter .August 27 – TheFrench East India Company (Compagnie des Indes Orientales ) is founded.September 8 (August 29 O.S.) –Peter Stuyvesant ,Director-General of theDutch Republic colony ofNew Netherland , surrendersNew Amsterdam to an English naval squadron, commanded by ColonelRichard Nicolls , without bloodshed. The English promptly rename the fledgling cityNew York , after theDuke of York (later King James II) .[ 6] September 23 – The French Navy shipTigre Sardinia , with the loss of 64 men. Another 58 of the crew are rescued.John Vanbrugh Nicolas Fatio de Duillier January 1 –Alvise Pisani , 114th Doge of Venice (d.1741 )January 4 –Lars Roberg , Swedish physician (d.1742 )January 14 January 15 –Jean Meslier , French Catholic priest, later discovered to have promoted atheism (d.1729 )January 17 –Antonio Salvi , Italian poet (d.1724 )January 20 –Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina , Italian writer and jurist (d.1718 )January 24 –John Vanbrugh , English architect and dramatist (d.1726 )February 6 –Mustafa II ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1703 )February 8 –William Seymour , British politician (d.1728 )February 13 –Teodor Andrzej Potocki , Polish noble (d.1738 )February 23 –Georg Dietrich Leyding , German composer and organist (d.1710 )February 24 (baptized) –Thomas Newcomen , English inventor (d.1729 )February 26 –Nicolas Fatio de Duillier , Swiss mathematician (d.1753 )March 4 –Juan de Esteyneffer , Moravian German lay Jesuit missionary sent to the New World (d.1716 )March 11 –Jørgen Otto Brockenhuus , Dano-Norwegian officer (d.1728 )March 12 –Moritz Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d.1718 )March 14 –Silvio Stampiglia , Italian poet and opera librettist (d.1725 )March 17 –Georg Österreich , German composer and music collector (d.1735 )March 20 –Johann Homann , German cartographer (d.1724 )April 5 –Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine , French noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (d.1748 )April 6 April 11 –Pierce Lewis , Welsh cleric who helped to "correct" the1690 edition of the Welsh Bible (d.1699 )April 14 –Ulrik Adolf Holstein , Danish nobleman and statesman (d.1737 )April 30 –François Louis, Prince of Conti , French general (d.1709 )May 6 –Bhai Bachittar Singh , Indian Sikh martyr (d.1705 )May 10 –Tørres Christensen , Norwegian merchant (d.1721 )May 20 –Andreas Schlüter , German architect and sculptor (d.1714 )May 30 –Giulio Alberoni , Italian cardinal and statesman (d.1754 )June 3 –Rachel Ruysch , painter from the Northern Netherlands (d.1750 )June 7 June 22 –Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d.1707 )June 24 –François Pourfour du Petit , French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon (d.1741 )June 28 –Nicolas Bernier , French composer (d.1734 )July 3 –James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby , English politician (d.1736 )July 11 –James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater (d.1730 )July 16 –Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois (d.1666 )July 18 –Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg , Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (d.1732 )July 21 –Matthew Prior , English poet and diplomat (d.1721 )August 2 –Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d.1712 )August 4 –Louis Lully , French composer (d.1734 )August 12 –Magnus Stenbock , Swedish noble (d.1717 )August 20 –János Pálffy , Hungarian field marshal, Palatine (d.1751 )August 24 September 5 September 7 September 9 –Johann Christoph Pez , German composer (d.1716 )September 14 –John Blackadder , Scottish soldier (d.1729 )September 18 –Anton Maria Maragliano , Italian artist (d.1739 )October 3 –Giuseppe Alberti , Italian painter (d.1716 )October 12 –Praskovia Saltykova , Russian tsarina (d.1723 )October 16 –Abraham Alewijn , Dutch playwright (d.1721 )October 18 –George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton (d.1727 )October 27 –Thomas Johnson , English politician (d.1728 )October 31 –Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell , English politician (d.1704 )November 9 November 12 –Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier , French writer (d.1734 )November 16 –Louise Marie Thérèse , French Benedictine nun (d.1732 )November 18 –Charles of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , Duke of Mecklenburg (d.1688 )November 24 –Margherita Maria Farnese , Italian noblewoman (d.1718 )December 10 –John Williams , American clergy (d.1729 )December 13 –Countess Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen , German noblewoman (d.1699 )December 15 –Azim-ush-Shan , Mughal prince (d.1712 )December 17 –Henry Bayntun , English politician (d.1691 )December 26 –Johann Melchior Dinglinger , German goldsmith (d.1731 )date unknown –Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer , Dutch writer and agent (d.1737 )Adam Willaerts January 10 –Antoon Sanders , Dutch priest and historian (b.1586 )January 14 –Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans , French princess (b.1648 )January 27 –Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria , Roman Catholic bishop (b.1649 )January 30 –Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch mayor (b.1599 )February 16 –Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet , British baronet (b.1592 )February 20 –Corfitz Ulfeldt , Danish statesman (b.1606 )February 26 –Emmanuel Stupanus , Swiss physician (b.1587 )March 7 –Bernhard von Mallinckrodt , German bibliophile (b.1591 )March 16 –Ivan Vyhovsky , Ukrainian Cossack leaderMarch 19 –Francisco de Araujo , Spanish theologian (b.1580 )March 30 –Guru Har Krishan , 8th Guru of Sikhism (b.1656 )March 31 –Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby , English defender of Latham House (b.1599 )[ 8] April 4 –Adam Willaerts , Dutch painter (b.1577 )April 24 –Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (b.1622 )May 19 –Elisabeth de Bourbon-Vendôme , French princess (b.1614 )May 21 –Elizabeth Poole , Puritan and business woman (b. c.1599 )June 1 –Michiel Sweerts , Flemish painter (b.1618 )June 2 –Henry II, Duke of Guise (b.1614 )June 22 –Katherine Philips , Anglo-Welsh poet (b.1631 )[ 9] July –Jan Janssonius , Dutch cartographer (b.1588 ) July 4 –George III of Brieg , Duke of Brzeg (1633–1664) (b.1611 )July 15 –Abraham Ecchellensis , Lebanese Maronite philosopher (b.1605 )July 12 –Stefano della Bella , Italian printmaker (b.1610 )July 16 –Andreas Gryphius , German writer (b.1616 )[ 10] July 19 –Egbert van der Poel , Dutch painter (b.1621 )July 31 –Goschwin Nickel , Jesuit leader (b.1582 )August 3 –Jacopo Vignali , Italian painter (b.1592 )August 16 –Johannes Buxtorf II , Swiss theologian (b.1599 )August 23 –Jean Bagot , French theologian (b.1591 )August 24 –Maria Cunitz , Silesian astronomer (b.1610 )August 27 –Francisco de Zurbarán , Spanish painter (b.1598 )September 2 –Antoine de Laloubère , French Jesuit mathematician (b.1600 )October 31 –William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz , Dutch stadtholder (b.1613 )November 2 –George Ghica , Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia (b.1600 )November 17 –Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt , Translator (b.1606 )November 18 –Miklós Zrínyi , Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman (b.1620 )December 15 –Dietrich Reinkingk , German lawyer and politician (b.1590 )December 25 –Niccolò Ludovisi , Prince of Piombino (b.1613 )December 26 –Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau , Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage (b.1602 )date unknown –Gu Mei , politically influential ChineseGējì , poet and painter (b.1619 )^ Robert C. 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