1667 in England

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Events from the year 1667 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

• 6–7 March - Exceptionally cold spell spell.^[1]
• 27 April - The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5.^[2][3][4] The first edition is published in October^[3] and sells out in eighteen months.^[5]
• 9–14 June - Raid on the Medway: a Dutch fleet under admiral Michiel de Ruyter burns Sheerness, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard and escapes with the royal barge The Royal Charles.^[6]
• 27 June - An attempt by Dutch ships to enter the River Thames above Gravesend is called off.
• 2 July - A Dutch marine force lands near Woodbridge, Suffolk, and prevents Landguard Fort from being reinforced but a direct assault on the fort is beaten off by the garrison, The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, predecessor of the Royal Marines, and hence the first land action fought by marines.
• 3 July - A Dutch attack on Osleybay fails.
• c. 13–17 July - Exceptionally warm spell peaks.^[1]
• 21 July (Old Style – 31 July New Style) - The Second Anglo-Dutch War is ended by the Treaty of Breda.^[7][8]

Undated

• Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.
• Elkanah Settle's play Cambyses, King of Persia performed.

Publications

• Margaret Cavendish's biography The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle
• John Dryden's poem Annus Mirabilis.^[6]
• Richard Head's apocryphal The life and death of Mother Shipton
• John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.^[6]

Births

• 12 January - Jonathan Richardson, portrait painter, writer on art and collector (died 1745)
• 29 April - John Arbuthnot, physician and writer (died 1735)
• 9 December - William Whiston, mathematician (died 1752)
• John Pomfret, poet and clergyman (died 1702)
• John Richardson, Quaker preacher and autobiographer (died 1753)
• Ned Ward, satirical writer and publican (died 1731)
• Probable year - Susanna Centlivre, née Freeman, poet, actress and playwright (died 1723)

Deaths

• 2 May - George Wither, writer (born 1588)
• 16 May - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, statesman (born 1607)
• 20 June - James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, son of James II of England (born 1663)
• 28 July - Abraham Cowley, poet (born 1618)

References

1. Pepys's Diary.
2. Equivalent to approximately £7,400 income in 2008. "Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to Present". MeasuringWorth. 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-13.
3. Campbell, Gordon (2004). "Milton, John (1608–1674)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18800. Retrieved 2013-07-05. The sums involved are modest but quite normal. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
4. Lindenbaum, Peter (1995). "Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations". The Library (Oxford University Press). s6-17 (3): 250–269. doi:10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250. ISSN 0024-2160.
5. "John Milton's Paradise Lost". The Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
6. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 190–191. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
7. "Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667". Military History Encyclopedia on the Web. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
8. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.

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