1665

Years:
1662 1663 1664 - 1665 - 1666 1667 1668

Decades:
1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1665 by topic:
Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
March 6 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication.
March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders.
June 3 - The Duke of York defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
June 15 - Jean-Baptiste Denis makes the first blood transfusion from lamb to human.
June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
July 7 - King Charles II of England leaves London with his entourage, fleeing the Great Plague. He moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter
October 5 - The University of Kiel is founded.
November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

Charles II of Spain becomes King.
London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die. (See the Great Plague.)
Rumours abound that syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the brothels.
Battle of Ambuila: Portuguese forces defeat and kill king Garcia II of Kongo, ending native rule of that kingdom.
Molière publishes L'Amour médecin.
John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection, Alexendre Le Grand, and The Indian Emperor.
Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot.