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Historical Events for the Year 1666

  • 13th January » French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
  • 3rd September » The Royal Exchange, London e.g Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.
  • 4th September » In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire of London or Great Fire occurs.
  • 28th November » At least 3,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

Famous Birthdays in 1666

  • 17th January » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
  • 9th February » George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (d. 1737)
  • 15th March » George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (d. 1738)
  • 18th April » Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747)
  • 25th April » Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer (d. 1727)
  • 14th May » Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
  • 10th July » John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
  • 6th August » Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)
  • 13th August » William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (d. 1727)
  • 5th September » Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
  • 6th September » Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
  • 15th September » Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
  • 16th September » Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716)
  • 1st November » James Sherard, English botanist (d. 1738)
  • 5th November » Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
  • 25th November » Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
  • 5th December » Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1741)
  • 22nd December » Guru Gobind Singh, Indian guru and poet (d. 1708)

Famous Deaths in History for 1666

  • 20th January » Anne of Austria (b. 1601)
  • 22nd January » Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (b. 1592)
  • 24th January » Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
  • 24th February » Nicholas Lanier, English composer and painter (b. 1588)
  • 22nd May » Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
  • 16th June » Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet, English poet and diplomat, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Spain named English Ambassador to Spain (b. 1608)
  • 30th June » Alexander Brome, English poet and playwright (b. 1620)
  • 5th July » Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
  • 15th August » Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
  • 26th August » Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. 1580)
  • 27th October » Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
  • 29th October » Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister (b. 1600)