1665

Events

• March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• 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 Black Death, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die
• Rumours abound that Syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the Brothels
• King Charles II moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter
• 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

Births

• February 6 - Princess Anne Stuart, later Queen Anne of Great Britain (+ 1714)

Deaths

• January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
• September 17 - Philip IV of Spain