1668

This page relates to the year 1668 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

July: The corsair Henry Morgan puts at bag Puerto de Príncipe (Cuba) and Portobelo (Panamá).
September: Jean Heel request to be raised of its functions of intendant to the beginning of the year. Claude of Guard post of Aubigny becomes intendant of the News-France until in 1670, year when Talon is reallocated.

the Canada account 6282 French.
Forwarding of Medard Chouart of the Currant bushes. Future the Compagnie of Hudson Bay builds Charles Fort, on the Baie James, with the mouth of the Rivière Rupert.

India: Bombay passes to the crown of England. It is given in hiring to the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies. François Charon founds a French counter with Surat then with Masulipatam.
Second peace treaty between Shivaji and Aurangzeb.

Russian Embassy in Spain and France. Pyotr Potemkin meets Hugues de Lionne and Colbert. They negotiate for a reciprocal freedom of trade.
Epidemic of Plague in Spain.
John Wilkins publishes An Essay towards has Real Character and has Philosophical Language , where it is in particular question of a universal measurement, decimal units, and of which the fundamental length corresponds to approximately a Mètre.

2 - January 19th: Condé conquers the Franche-Comté.
January 19th: Secret treaty of Vienna between the ambassador of Grémonille France and Léopold I {{er}} for the succession of Spain.
January 23rd: Treaty of $the Hague between the England, the United Provinces and the Sweden against the France.
February 7th: Cop takes Besancon.
February 13rd: Dole goes.
February 13rd: By the treated of Lisbon, the Spain recognizes the independence of the Portugal. The two countries restore the possessions which had changed domination during the conflict, except Ceuta, which will remain Spanish.

May 2nd: Peace of Aachen: End of the wars of Devolution, Spain loses the southernmost Flanders, Lille and some enclaves in north (Oudenaarde, Ath, Binche, Charleroi) with the profit of the France. France withdraws Franche-Comté. Don Juan of Austria takes refuge with Barcelona.
September 19th: Abdication of the king de Pologne Jean II Casimir Vasa ( Jan II Kazimierz Waza ), also called Casimir V. Three foreign candidates are on the rows to succeed to him: the duke Charles of Lorraine, supported by Austria, the duke of Enghien and the prince Frederic-Guillaume de Neubourg, supported by France. The tsarévitch Alexis is also candidate.

September: “Peace of the Church” (officially the January 19th 1669). It stops the quarrel between the official Church and the minority Jansenist.
October 13rd: The nuncio receives Antoine Arnauld.
October 23rd: Turenne converts with Catholicism under the influence of Bossuet.

Research of the noble forgeries in Languedoc by the intendant Claude Bazin de Bezons.
Vauban becomes police chief with the fortifications.
François-Michel Tellier, marquis de Louvois, becomes superintendent of the stations.
Colbert becomes Secretary of State at the House of the King.
Large Plague in the North of the kingdom (1668 - 1670).

the metropolitan seat of Ungrovalachie is transferred from Tîgovişte to Bucharest.
the tsar Alexis Ier sends the troop against the rebellious monks of Solovki.

January 13rd: Host of Molière.
January 28th: Inauguration of the University of Lund.
May 2nd: Effects of water with Versailles to celebrate the Peace of Aachen.
July 18th: George Simpleton or the Husband confused is played at the time “ Grand Royal Entertainment of Versailles ”.
September 9th: Creation of the Miserly one or the School of the lie , of Molière, with the theater of the Palais Royal.
November 20th: the Litigants , of Jean Root.

selected Fables put in worms (Books I to VI) of the Fountain.
the Conversations of Of Mother.
Of some Spanish, Italian books and French , test of Saint-Évremond.
Edition of History of holy Louis by Joinville of Cange.
Acta sanctorum of Mabillon (1668 - 1701).
Pellisson becomes historiographer of Louis XIV.
Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668 - 1669), novel of Grimmelshausen.
Test on dramatic poetry of John Dryden.
Love one evening and Women with the mode, comedies of John Dryden.
Russian Traduction of the Amphitryon of Molière, part that the ambassador Pyotr Potemkin with brought back Paris.

the Political discourse , of Johann Joachim Beaker, economist cameralist.
the English navy includes/understands 4000 vessels.
Of the engineers and the Dutch craftsmen builds the first Russian squadron on the building site of Diédiénovo, on the Oka.

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