This has been published by J. Mabillon in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti ( Paris, 1668 – 1701 ).

* 1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general ( d. 1741 )

* 1694 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1668 )

* 1668 – William Davenant, English poet ( b. 1606 )

Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738 ) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.

* 1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.

* 1751 – Henri François d ' Aguesseau, Chancellor of France ( b. 1668 )

After a successful trading expedition over the winter of 1668 – 9, the Nonsuch returned to England.

In France, a great number of highly characteristic solo works were created and compiled into four books of ordres by François Couperin ( 1668 – 1733 ).

* 1632 – Catherine de Saint-Augustin, Canadian saint, founder of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec ( d. 1668 )

* 1668 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* 1710 – Louis III, Prince of Condé ( b. 1668 )

* 1751 – Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist ( b. 1668 )

* 1668 – Joseph Alleine, English preacher ( b. 1634 )

* 1747 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer ( b. 1668 )

* 1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician ( b. 1668 )

* Sophia Charlotte ( 1668 – 1705 ), Queen in Prussia

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

Herman Boerhaave ( 1668 – 1738 ) is sometimes referred to as a " father of physiology " due to his exemplary teaching in Leiden and textbook ' Institutiones medicae ' ( 1708 ).

* Triple Alliance ( 1668 ) – England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden

* House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523 – 1654 and of Poland 1587 – 1668

* House of Vasa was the Royal House of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland and Lithuania 1587 – 1668

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 30 October 1668 – 1 February 1705 ) was the Queen consort of Prussia as wife of Frederick I of Prussia.

* 30 October 1668 – 8 October 1684 Her Serene Highness Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Following the 1668 attack of the English pirate Robert Searle, Mariana Queen Regent of Spain, approved the construction of a masonry fortification to protect the city.

He was Deputy Cup-Bearer of the Queen from 1643, Master of the Horse of the Crown from 1645, Voivode of Kraków Voivodeship from 1668, and Starost of Sandomierz and Bydgoszcz.

It was first performed before Charles II and Queen Catherine by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal on Bridges Street, London, on Friday, 12 June 1668.

In 1668, Calungsod travelled with Spanish Jesuit missionaries to these islands, renamed the Mariana Islands ( Las Islas de Mariana ) the year before in honour of both the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Queen Regent of Spain, María Ana of Austria, who funded their voyage.

Famous casuistic authors include Antonio Escobar y Mendoza, whose Summula casuum conscientiae ( 1627 ) enjoyed a great success, Thomas Sanchez, Vincenzo Filliucci ( Jesuit and penitentiary at St Peter's ), Antonino Diana, Paul Laymann ( Theologia Moralis, 1625 ), John Azor ( Institutiones Morales, 1600 ), Etienne Bauny, Louis Cellot, Valerius Reginaldus, Hermann Busembaum ( d. 1668 ), etc.

** Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament ( d. 1668 )

* October 13 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader ( d. 1668 )

** Owen Feltham, English religious writer ( d. 1668 )

* January 4 – Jakob Balde, German Latinist ( d. 1668 )

* February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright ( d. 1668 )

* June – John Thurloe, spymaster for Oliver Cromwell ( d. 1668 )

* December 18 – Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar ( d. 1668 )

* February 5 – Henri François d ' Aguesseau, Chancellor of France ( b. 1668 )

** Yamada Arinaga, Japanese retainer of the Shimazu clan ( d. 1668 )

Karnak (" Carnac ") as a village name, and name of the complex, is first attested in 1668, when two capuchin missionary brothers Protais and Charles François d ' Orléans travelled though the area.

However, the position of premier prince devolved upon the ducs d ' Orléans in 1710, so the seventh Prince, Louis III ( 1668 – 1710 ) declined to make use of the title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary peerage of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as Monsieur le Duc.

Louis Couperin ( c. 1626 – 1661 ) was the first composer to embrace the genre, and harpsichord preludes were used until the first half of the 18th century by numerous composers including Jean-Henri d ' Anglebert ( 1629 – 1691 ), Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre ( 1665 – 1729 ), François Couperin ( 1668 – 1733 ) and Jean-Philippe Rameau ( 1683 – 1764 ), whose very first printed piece ( 1706 ) was in this form.

* Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus, Duke of Leuchtenberg ( 1638 – 1705 ) ∞ 1668 Maurita Febronia de La Tour d ' Auvergne ( 1652 – 1706 )

* John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis ( d. 1668 )

She divided her property, for that time a large one, between her natural sons, the first by Arthur Mainwaring ( 1668 – 1712 ) who had left her and his son half his fortune on his death and the second by Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill ( d. 1745 ).

Antonio Cesti was particularly successful, providing the huge operatic extravaganza Il pomo d ' oro for the imperial court in Vienna in 1668.

* Le Discernement d ' une Veritable Eglise suivant l ' Ecriture Sainte, Amsterdam, 1668.

Henri François d ' Aguesseau ( November 27, 1668 – February 5, 1751 ) was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be " the most learned magistrate France every possessed ".

After the Thirty Years ' War, Saint George ’ s Chapel was held by Imperial Baron Philipp Erwein von Schönborn ( d. 1668 ), who moved his family ’ s landholdings from the Taunus to the Middle Rhine and the Main.