September 2: The Great Fire of London breaks out and destroys much of the English capital over the next four days.
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1666 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1666 MDCLXVI
Ab urbe condita
2419
Armenian calendar
1115 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԵ
Assyrian calendar
6416
Balinese saka calendar
1587–1588
Bengali calendar
1073
Berber calendar
2616
English Regnal year
17 Cha. 2 – 18 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar
2210
Burmese calendar
1028
Byzantine calendar
7174–7175
Chinese calendar
乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4363 or 4156 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4364 or 4157
Coptic calendar
1382–1383
Discordian calendar
2832
Ethiopian calendar
1658–1659
Hebrew calendar
5426–5427
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1722–1723
- Shaka Samvat
1587–1588
- Kali Yuga
4766–4767
Holocene calendar
11666
Igbo calendar
666–667
Iranian calendar
1044–1045
Islamic calendar
1076–1077
Japanese calendar
Kanbun 6 (寛文６年)
Javanese calendar
1588–1589
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar
3999
Minguo calendar
246 before ROC 民前246年
Nanakshahi calendar
198
Thai solar calendar
2208–2209
Tibetan calendar
阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1792 or 1411 or 639 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1793 or 1412 or 640
August 4: The Dutch Navy fails to invade the British Isles after the English triumph in the St. James's Day Battle
1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 666th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1666, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire.
1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year...
swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while...
Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1644 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She...
Dowager of Conti, suo jure Duchess of La Vallière and of Vaujours (2 October 1666 – 3 May 1739) was a French noblewoman as the eldest legitimised daughter...
Cestui que Vie Act 1666 Act of Parliament Parliament of England Long title An Act for Redresse of Inconveniencies by want of Proofe of the Deceases of...
1666 in England was the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem, which celebrated England's failure to be beaten...
issue of The London Gazette (labelled No. 24) being published on 5 February 1666. The Gazette was not a newspaper in the modern sense: it was sent by post...
"Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666", commonly shortened to "Verses upon the Burning of Our House", is a poem by Anne...
The 1666 census of New France was the first census conducted in Canada (and also North America) for the Kingdom of France. It was organized by Jean Talon...
they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. Resisting the accommodation of Russian piety to the contemporary forms of...
London in February 1666. After a long spell of hot and dry weather through mid-1666, the Great Fire of London started on 2 September 1666 in Pudding Lane...
The year 1666 in science and technology involved some significant events. December 22 – French Academy of Sciences first meets. Publication of Stanisław...
Pan-Orthodox synod convened by Tsar Alexis of Russia in Moscow in April 1666 in order to depose Patriarch Nikon of Moscow. The council condemned the famous...
usually referred to as fluxions or calculus, seen in a manuscript of October 1666, is now published among Newton's mathematical papers. His work De analysi...
Events from the year 1666 in France Monarch – Louis XIV 13 January – French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrives in Dhaka, and meets Shaista Khan...
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