* 1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.

* 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant ' Agnese in Agone ( b. 1599 )

* Afonso III of Kongo-( 1666 – 1667 )

* Alfonso III of Kongo ( 1666 – 1667 )

* Alfonso VI of Portugal ( 1643 – 1667 ) second king of the House of Braganza

* 1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow ( d. 1721 )

* 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de ' Medici, Italian wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ( d. 1743 )

* 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £ 10.

* Principality of Anhalt-Mühlingen: 1667 – 1714

* Principality of Anhalt-Dornburg: 1667 – 1742

* 1701 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord ( b. 1667 )

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714.

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714.

Christoph Ludwig Agricola ( November 5, 1667 – August 8, 1719 ) was a German landscape painter.

* 1723 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress ( b. 1667 )

# Greece and then the Crimea and Rumelia for the second time ( 1667 – 1670 )

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal ( b. 1667 )

* 1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint ( d. 1667 )

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

* August 22 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( b. 1667 )

In 1667, as William III approached the age of eighteen, the Orangist party again attempted to bring him to power by securing for him the offices of stadtholder and Captain-General.

* William Fuller ( bishop ), Bishop of Lincoln ( 1667 – 75 )

Facing Gould is a portrait of William Kiffin which dates back to 1667.

At the instance of the Irish bishops Taylor undertook his last great work, the Dissuasive from Popery ( in two parts, 1664 and 1667 ), but, as he himself seemed partly conscious, he might have more effectually gained his end by adopting the methods of Ussher and William Bedell, and inducing his clergy to acquire the Irish language.

* The Tempest ( Dryden ), a 1667 adaptation of Shakespeare's play by John Dryden and William d ' Avenant

He steadily investigated the muniments of all the colleges, and in 1667 made his first journey to London, where he visited William Dugdale, who introduced him into the Cottonian Library, and William Prynne showed him the same civility for the Tower records.

* Luise Henriette of Nassau ( 1627 – 1667 ), married Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

He also made commemorative medals for the destruction of the English fleet and the peace of 1667, as well as one showing the granting of the coat of arms to the city of Amsterdam by Count William II of Holland and Emperor Maximilian I.

Upon his death in 1667, his two daughters by Rachel, Elizabeth Wriothesley, Viscountess Campden, wife of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and Rachel Wriothesley, the wife of William Russell, Lord Russell received all of their father's property.

" I perceive ," writes Pepys on 23 August 1667, " Sir William Coventry is the man and nothing done till he comes ", and on his removal in 1669 the duke of Albemarle, no friendly or partial critic, declares that " nothing now would be well done.

These include such naturalists as Jean de Thévenot ( 1633 – 1667 ), Pierre Sonnerat ( 1748 – 1814 ), Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour ( 1773 – 1826 ), Alfred Duvaucel ( 1793 – 1825 ), William Doherty ( 1857 – 1901 ) and Frank Kingdon-Ward ( 1885 – 1958 ).

In the Second Dutch War ( 1665 – 1667 ), while mate of a ship in the Baltic trade, he was pressed into service with the Royal Navy and rose to be Admiral of William III's Blue Fleet ( 8 February 1693 ).

He and his brother William Ashburnham shared in an enterprise for reviving the manufacture of tapestry at Mortlake ( March and April 1667 ).

Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch, the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667.

The earldom became extinct on his death in 1667 while he was succeeded in the barony and viscountcy by William FitzWilliam, the third Viscount.

William Whiston ( 1667 – 1752 ), best known for his translation of Josephus, died at the Hall, the home of his son-in-law, Samuel Barker on 22 August 1752.

Sir William Batten ( c. 1600 – 1667 ) was an English naval officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667.

* Frederick William ( 25 November 1666 – 29 July 1667 );

In addition, Holmes in the winter of 1666 / 1667 had revived the quarrel with Sir Jeremiah Smith ( possibly even fighting a duel with him ), which was only ended when the latter took Sir William Penn's place on the Navy Board ( which again Holmes had hoped would be his ) in December 1668.

There are clear parallels between King Arthur and Shakespeare's The Tempest ( which Dryden had revised in line with Restoration taste in collaboration with Sir William Davenant in 1667 and which had been turned into a semi-opera with music by Matthew Locke in 1674 ).

The " Royal " in the title comes from the Royal Charters that were granted in 1667, by King Charles II of England, and in 1692, by King William III and Queen Mary II of England.