1668

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  – 1660s –  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1665 1666 1667 – 1668 – 1669 1670 1671

1668 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1668 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1668 MDCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2421
Armenian calendar	1117 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	6418
Bengali calendar	1075
Berber calendar	2618
English Regnal year	19 Cha. 2 – 20 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2212
Burmese calendar	1030
Byzantine calendar	7176–7177
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4364 or 4304     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4365 or 4305
Coptic calendar	1384–1385
Discordian calendar	2834
Ethiopian calendar	1660–1661
Hebrew calendar	5428–5429
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1724–1725
- Shaka Samvat	1590–1591
- Kali Yuga	4769–4770
Holocene calendar	11668
Igbo calendar	668–669
Iranian calendar	1046–1047
Islamic calendar	1078–1079
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 7 (寛文７年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4001
Minguo calendar	244 before ROC 民前244年
Thai solar calendar	2210–2211

1668 (MDCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (dominical letter AG) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter ED) of the Julian calendar, the 1668th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 668th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1660s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1668 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January – The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed between England, Sweden and the United Provinces.
• February 13 – In Lisbon, a peace treaty is established between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England, where the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch is recognized. Portugal yields Ceuta to Spain.
• May 2 – The first Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution.

July–December

• July 7 – Bishop Isaac Barrow founds the Bishop Barrow Trust to establish a university on the Isle of Man (King William's College).^[1]
• Mid-July – Henry Morgan sacks Portobello and Panama City; the lack of booty from the latter attack leads to the city being burned.
• September 9 – Molière's comedy, L'Avare, is first performed.

Date unknown

• The British East India Company takes over Bombay.
• The first National Bank in Europe (the Riksbank) is founded in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar, which decides to expel all Roman Catholics in Ethiopia.
• Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope^[2] (Newton's reflector).

Births

• April 20 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
• May 8 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)
• June 23 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
• July 21 – Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (d. 1713)
• September 8 – Giorgio Baglivi, Armenian doctor and writer (d. 1707)
• October 18 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
• October 30 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, sister of King George I of Great Britain (d. 1705)
• November 10
  • Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
  • François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
• November 11 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar (d. 1736)
• November 27 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (d. 1751)
• November 30 – William August, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (d. 1671)
• December 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Italian poet and journalist (d. 1750)
• December 31 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)

Deaths

• January 6 – Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (b. 1608)
• February 8 – Alessandro Tiarini, painter (b. 1577)
• February 21 – John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
• March 16 – Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. 1623)
• April 21 – Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (b. c. 1604)
• May 21 – Christoph Delphicus zu Dohna, soldier and diplomat (b. 1628)
• June 20 – Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
• September 16
  • Paolo Emilio Rondinini, Bishop of Assisi (b. 1617)
  • Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch painter (b. 1610)
• September 19 – Sir William Waller, English Civil War general (b. c. 1635)
• November 17 – Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b. 1634)
• November 21 – Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b. 1632)

References

1. Journal of Manx Museum. Accessed 28 August 2014
2. Isaac Newton: adventurer in thought, by Alfred Rupert Hall, page 67