1662

This page relates to the year 1662 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

the Portuguese yield to the English the town of Tangier, with the Morocco (fine in 1683).

: The pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan (which is called at the time Formosa) after nine months of seat and the Dutchmen drive out some.
Spring: The emperor of China Kangxi, to release the empire of the movements anti Qing, orders the “Great release”, displacement forced towards the interior of the grounds of the populations of the coasts of South-east where the party of the Ming is still powerful.
July 2nd: Died of Koxinga whereas he thought of seizing Manila. His/her son succeeds to him until in 1681.

January 23rd: The prince of Transylvania Jean Kemény is killed with the battle of Nagyszőlős against the Othoman .

June, Russia: Beginning of the revolt of copper with Moscow, series of riots due to the monetary crisis. 7000 people are killed in Moscow during repression. In province, the agrarian disorders multiply. Part of the army, under the orders of Kropotkine, joint with the insurrectionists. Many controlled peasants flee towards the Don, the the Volga and the Siberia.

the Polish diet ruins the plan of the French party which aimed at indicating the duke of Enghien like successor with Jean II Casimir Vasa.
Insurrection in Poland directed by the hetman Lubomirski (fine in 1664).

Act off Uniformity : Re-establishment of the religious uniformity and purification of the clergy Anglican.
a Acte of Establishment confirms the property of the grounds in Ireland on their level of 1654.
Act off Frauds on the registration of the ships.
Creation of the Royal Africa Company (joint stock company).

January 7th: Miraculous cure with Port-Royal of the sister Catherine of Holy-Suzanne, girl of Philippe de Champaigne.
Of the February 2nd to the April 7th, Bossuet sermon the Lent of the Louvre before the king and the Court.

In China, decree giving preeminence to the literary composition in the examinations for the recruitment of the civils servant.

February 7th: Cavalli produces in Paris the opera Ercole Amante .
February 20th: Marriage of Molière and Armande Béjart.
May 9th: First report written on a spectacle of Punch and Judy with London, by the English diarist Samuel Pepys.
the December 26th creation with the Theater of the Palais Royal, the School of the women of Molière. This one receives from the king the first pension granted to an actor.

Logic or art to think of Pierre Nicole and Arnauld.
Oath on the Bad Rich person , Death, the Ambition of Bossuet.
Ode with the king , of the Fountain, which takes the defense of Nicolas Fouquet.
Reflections on the various geniuses of the Roman people , test of Saint-Évremond.
Sertorius , tragedy of Pierre Corneille.
the Princess of Montpensier of Madam of Fayette.
Memories of Rochefoucauld.
comic History of the States and Empires of the Sun and the Fragment of Physics of Savinien de Cyrano of Bergerac.
Treated poem epic , of Michel de Marolles.

The Sceptical Chymist : The English chemist Robert Boyle develops his theory of gases, known in the French-speaking countries under the name of Loi of Mariotte.
natural and political Observations on the bulletins of mortality , of the British statistician John Graunt (1620 - 1674) which systematically studied the deaths recorded in the parishes of London.

Colbert encourages the creation of the manufactures of the Goblins (movable decoration) and of Beauvais.
Bankruptcy in Spain.

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