* 1666 – Maria Sofia of Neuburg ( d. 1699 )

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

* Afonso III of Kongo-( 1666 – 1667 )

* Alfonso III of Kongo ( 1666 – 1667 )

* 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer and violinist ( d. 1747 )

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

A new revision — probably by Bishop George Griffith ( 1601 – 1666 ), of St Asaph-based on the revised English book of 1662, was published in 1664.

* 1666 – Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer and musician ( d. c. 1741 )

* 1666 – Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru ( d. 1708 )

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

* 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician ( d. 1666 )

* 1584 – Albert VI of Bavaria ( d. 1666 )

* 1666 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier ( d. 1737 )

The Great Plague ( 1665 – 1666 ) was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England ( part of modern day United Kingdom ).

The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

* 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German-Anglican theologian ( d. 1711 )

* 1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar ( b. 1666 )

* 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier ( b. 1666 )

After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the Scanian lands came under the possession of the Swedish Crown, which quickly founded the Lund University in 1666 as a means of Swedification.

After the Scanian provinces were taken from Denmark, Lund University was founded in 1666.

After 1666.

After distinguishing himself, Mustafa became a vizier in his own right and, by 1663 or 1666, Kapudan Pasha ( Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy ).

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, the city installed water mains with holes drilled at intervals, equipped with risers, allowing an access point to the wooden fire plugs from street level.

After 1666, when the Gray family sold the castle, it gradually became more ruinous.

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, refugees from the fire evacuated to Moorfields and set up temporary camps there.

After being educated by the Jesuits, and joining the Oratorians in 1666, he was in poor health, left his order, and never took more than minor orders.

After the Battle of Rullion Green in November 1666 he is reported as having condemned to death eleven prisoners who had surrendered on a promise of mercy, telling them " You were pardoned as soldiers, but you are not acquitted as subjects ".

After a successful journey, during which he had received the patronage of the Safavid monarch Shah Abbas II, who died in 1666 and his son Safi Mirza succeeded him first as Shah Safi II then as Shah Suleiman I. Chardin returned to France in 1670.

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Oxfordshire stone was shipped downstream in barges for rebuilding of the City.

After the secession of the Scanian lands to Sweden at the Treaty of Roskilde 1658, and the foundation of Lund University in 1666 to enhance the Swedification of the Danish provinces, the house was incorporated to serve as the university's main building and library.

After her marriage to King Charles II of Spain ( 1661 – 1700 ), in 1679, the style was assumed briefly by her younger sister, Anne Marie d ' Orléans ( 1669 – 1728 ), before she married Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( 1666 – 1732 ).

After the war, the Plague struck several times and especially in 1666.

After the Restoration Belasyse was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire ( 1661 – 1673 ) and Governor of Hull, while from 1664 to 1666 he held the posts of Governor of Tangier and Captain-General of the forces in Africa.

After the end of Cromwell's campaign Nicholas Loftus was given extensive lands in the south of County Wexford and purchased the Hall from ' several Adventurers and soldiers ', but it was only in 1666 when his son Henry moved to the Hall from Dungulph that it became the principal residence of the Loftus family.

After gathering strength for many years, his spirit is able to directly touch the physical world, and influence it, causing such disasters as the Great Fire of London in 1666.

After Thomason's death in April 1666, the negotiations fell through and the collection remained in Barlow's hands, until they were acquired about 1677-9 by the bookbinder Samuel Mearne on behalf of the Royal Library at the Palace of Whitehall.

After his return from Kashmir, he traveled around on his own, meeting with Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Bengal and -- while preparing for a journey to Persia at Surat -- with Jean Chardin, that other great traveler in the Orient ( 1666 ).

After various intendancies, at Soissons ( 1665 ), at Amiens ( 1666 ), and at Paris ( 1667 ), he turned to diplomacy for good.

After their father's death in 1666, Rudolph Augustus, Anthony Ulrich's elder brother, became reigning duke and made Anthony Ulrich his proxy.

After the death of Shah Jahan in 1666, Aurangzeb consolidated his power in Delhi as Emperor and returned to the south.