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What Happened in November 1667

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Historical Events

Andromaque

Nov 7 Jean Racine's "Andromaque" premieres in Paris

Dramatist Jean Racine
  • Nov 18 Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
  • Nov 25 A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
Events in 1667

Famous Birthdays

  • Nov 2 James Louis Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland, born in Paris (d. 1737)
  • Nov 5 Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter, born in Regensburg, Germany (d. 1719)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Nov 30 Irish author and satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland

Jonathan Swift

Born in 1667

Famous Deaths

  • Nov 12 Hans Nansen, Danish statesman, dies at 68
  • Nov 16 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, German composer and violinist, dies at 34
  • Nov 28 Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)

Famous People Who Were

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