Major Events
- Feb 27 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-admiral De Ruyter beats English
- Mar 4 English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
- Mar 6 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
- Mar 11 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
- May 5 Dutch politician Nicolaas Witsen visits the politically powerful Patriarch Nikon, head of the Russian Orthodox church in Moscow
- May 15 Pope Alexander VII appoints committee to investigate Jansenism
- May 31 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
- Jun 3 Duke of York and the British fleet defeat the Dutch off the coast of Lowestoft, 1st fleet action of the Second Dutch War [1]
- Jun 6 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese armies beat Spain
- Jun 7 Boston's First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
- More 1665 Events
Did You Know?
New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York
Anne Stuart
Philip IV
Rembrandt van Rijn
Charles II
Louis XIV