While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried
by, by constables, for being at a conventicle...I would to God they would
either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!
-Samuel Pepys, August 7
Born in 1664:
Died in 1664:
Events of 1664:
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Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully collaborate on Le mariage
forcé (The Forced Wedding) and The Princess
of Elida. These have some success, but Molière's religious
satire La Tartuffe is immediately banned.
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The French Horn makes its first appearance in orchestras.
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Heinrich Schütz's Christmas Oratorio appears.
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Jean de la Fontaine's collection of bawdy tales, Contes et nouvelles,
appears.
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Pope Alexander VII
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adds a condemnation of Coperican theory to the Index of prohibited books.
All "books which affirm the motion of the earth'' are proclaimed anathema.
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issues a decree condemning the Jansenists.
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Samuel Butler's publishes the second part of his epic poem Hudibras.
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The second issue of the third edition of William Shakespeare's plays
is the first one to contain all of the plays now ascribed to him.
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Jean Racine's play La Thébaïde (The
Thebans) premieres.
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert convinces young Louis XIV to:
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Colbert also pressures Louis to reduce ranks of the nobility, whom he considers
parasites crippling the French economy.
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Maryland prohibits interracial marriage, and relegates black people to
lifelong slavery, the first colony to do so.
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Charles II
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sets up the territory of Maine for his brother James,
Duke of York.
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Gives the territory between the Delaware River and New Netherland to his
brother James, as well. James grants George Carteret and Lord Berkeley
a charter to found New Jersey there.
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offers a prize of ten shillings a ton for every foreign merchant ship captured.
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sets up the Admiral's Regiment, a detachment of the Royal Navy
later called the Royal Marines.
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is given some Chinese tea by English East India Company traders.
He loves it even though it has been contaminated by seawater from a leaky
hold, and the Company gains a concession that will make many of them rich
and drive much of history in the future.
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Peter Stuyvesant has so alienated the Dutch settlers of New Netherland
that they refuse to lift a finger to help when the English invade; Stuyvesant
is forced to surrender Nieuw Amsterdam to the English without a shot
being fired; they rename it New York (after James).
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Maratta warlord Shivaji captures and sacks the Gujarat city of Surat; he assumes the kingship of Surat and allows French traders establish a factory there.
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French buccaneers, having driven the Spanish from Hispaniola, found Fort
de Paix, their first settlement in Haiti.
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The Knights Hospitaller attack Algiers.
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German divers salvage 53 cannons from the Swedish warship Wasa,
which had sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628.
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The English Parliament passes The Coventicle Act, forbidding
any non-Anglican religious gathering of more than five people. Also, they
begin transporting Quakers to Maryland, New Jersey, and the West
Indies.
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An Austrian army beefed up by contingents from several European countries
defeats Ahmed Kuprulu leading an invading Ottoman army at Saint-Gotthard
in Hungary.
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A Dutch fleet fails to recapture Fort Zeelandia (near Tainan)
from the Chinese, but manages to capture Amoy in Fukien.
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Certain worthies of Lindheim, Germany begin trying and executing
people for witchcraft in order to seize their property.
1663 - 1664 - 1665
How They Were Made - 17th Century