1668

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Events of 1668

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Heads of state

Events of 1668

January - June

★ January - The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed.

★ 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 is recognized the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch. Portugal yields Ceuta to Spain.

July - December

★ Mid-July: Henry Morgan sacks Portobello,taking a lot of treasure.

★ Mid-July:Henry Morgan sacks Panama City,but very little money comes and the city is burned.

Undated

★ The first Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution.

★ Bishop Isaac Barrow founds the Bishop Barrow Trust to establish a university on the Isle of Man (King William's College).

★ First performance of Molière's comedy, ''L'Avare''.

★ The British East India Company takes over Bombay.

★ Foundation of the First National Bank of Europe in Stockholm, Sweden, ''Riksbank''.

★ Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar, which decides to expel all Roman Catholics in Ethiopia.

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)

★ October 18 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)

★ November 10 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)

★ November 10 - François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)

★ November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar (d. 1736)

★ December 31 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)
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Deaths

★ January 6 - Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (born 1608)

★ February 8 - Alessandro Tiarini, painter (born 1577)

★ February 21 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (born 1616)

★ April 7 - Sir William Davenant, English poet (born 1606)

★ June 20 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (born 1620)

★ September 19 - Sir William Waller, English Civil War general (born c.1635)

★ November 17 - Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (born 1634)

★ November 22 - Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (born 1532)
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Heads of state

★ France - Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)