Thomas Newcomen, the inventor of the atmospheric engine – the first successful steam-powered pumping engine – was born in Dartmouth in 1663.

In 1663 the German physicist Otto von Guericke created the first electric generator, which produced static electricity by applying friction in the machine.

His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" Book on Games of Chance "), written in 1526, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods.

Wren's first architectural project was the chapel of Pembroke College in Cambridge, which his uncle, the Bishop of Ely, asked him to design in 1663.

( The first book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" On Casting the Die "), was written by Girolamo Cardano in the 1560s, but not published until 1663.

The Whites were mostly coureurs des bois who intermarried freely with aboriginal women before the arrival of the first filles du roy in 1663.

A common misconception is that they were so named because they were sold for the price of a guinea coin ; this hypothesis is untenable, because the guinea was first struck in England in 1663, and William Harvey used the term " Ginny-pig " as early as 1653.

In 1663 the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations received its Royal Charter and Benedict Arnold ( 1615 – 1678 ) was elected its first Governor at Newport.

The " Homonoscet Plantation " referred to in the constituting Act was settled in March 1663, at first as Kenilworth but incorporated as the town of Killingworth in 1667.

The town was named for Albemarle County, the first county established in North Carolina, which was in turn named for the Duke of Albemarle, George Monck, one of the Lords Proprietors granted the province of Carolina in 1663 by King Charles II.

Baluze produced the first complete edition of Marca's treatise De libertatibus Ecclesiae Gallicanae ( 1663 ), and brought out his Marca hispanica ( 1688 ).

The current Theatre Royal on Drury Lane is the most recent of four incarnations, the first of which opened in 1663, making it the oldest continuously used theatre in London.

The Navigation Act 1663 ( also called the Act for the Encouragement of Trade, passed on 27 July ) required all European goods bound for America ( or other colonies ) to be shipped through England first.

The first, in 1663, was passed by the House of Commons but was defeated in the House of Lords.

In the American colonies, John Eliot of Massachusetts translated the Bible into the Massachusett language, also called Wampanoag, or Natick ( 1661 – 1663 ; he published the first Bible printed in North America ).

The first four-movement suite credited to a named composer, Sandley's Suite, was published in 1663.

Born in Versailles in 1663 and trained at the Paris Academy under Charles Le Brun, he came to England in 1683, where he first worked with Antonio Verrio, and then on his own.

Jones ' execution was the first in a witch-hunt that lasted in New England from 1648 until 1663.

Conversely, the importation of wheat was restricted, with the first prohibitive tariffs on the importation of grains introduced in 1663 in a two-tier system, adjusted ( 1670 ) into a three-tier system based on current price.

Other significant and curious pieces of early legislation include the first licensing of hackney carriages ( 1662 ), an act against " excessive gaming " ( 1663 ) and a famous 1663 act authorizing the erection of toll gates on the Great North Road, the prelude to a series of acts to help finance road-building for highways.

The first guinea was produced on 6 February 1663, and was made legal currency by a Proclamation of 27 March 1663.

His great grandfather, Thomas Hopkins, was an original settler of Providence, sailing from England in 1635 with his first cousin, Benedict Arnold, who became the first governor of the Rhode Island colony under the Royal Charter of 1663.

The General Court awarded a land grant to John Griffin of two hundred acres in 1663.

As Rothbard has said, " This semi-libertarian condition came to an end in 1663, when the English Crown included Albemarle in the mammoth Carolina land grant bestowed on a group of eight feudal proprietors.

In 1663, the VOC signed " Painan Treaty " with several local lords in the Painan area that were revolting against the Aceh Sultanate.

This settlement, established in 1663, was organized in part to threats from the English colony of Maryland to the west beginning to assert its own rights over the area.

But as far back as 1663, long before the area was officially named Rumson, Native Americans called it “ Navarumsunk ”.

In 1274, the town and its surrounding area was administered by Otto von Eberstein, but it remained in the possession of the " von Eberstein " family until 1663.

The area that became the Granville District had been a part of the Province of Carolina, which was a proprietary colony under the control of eight Lords Proprietor from 1663 to 1729.

In 1671, the Sulpician Order, lords of the Island of Montreal since 1663, granted the area ( now the western part of Verdun ) as a fief to Major Zacharie Dupuis, chief of the Montreal militia.

In 1663 – 65, England established grants to land stretching southward from their Jamestown colony to an area below St. Augustine, Florida.

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( French: François-Eugène de Savoie, German: Eugen von Savoyen, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano ; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736 ), was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

Prince Eugene was born in the Hôtel de Soissons in Paris on 18 October 1663.

Amsterdam was ravaged in 1663 – 1664, with a mortality given as 50, 000.

Isaac Ambrose ( 1604-January 20, 1663 / 1664 ) was an English Puritan divine, the son of Richard Ambrose, vicar of Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in Furness, a well-known Roman Catholic family.

Its only mailing address was a post-office box, number 1663, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In 1663 in retaliation for the attack led by the Corsican Guard on the attendants of the Duc de Créqui, the ambassador of Louis XIV in Rome, he attacked and seized Avignon, which at the time was considered an important and integral part of the French Kingdom by the provincial Parliament of Provence.

Year 1663 ( MDCLXIII ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

When news of a peace agreement between Portugal and the Netherlands reached Asia in 1663, Goa was the only remaining Portuguese city on the west coast.

The Third Folio was issued in 1663, published by Philip Chetwinde ; Chetwinde had married Robert Allot's widow and so obtained the rights to the book.

From 1663 to 1806, the city was the permanent seat of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, which became known as the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg.

In the Preface to the Reader he claims to have finished the book on March 14, 1663 though publication was delayed for another nine years until 1672.

The demonstration in the Elector's Library at Colln and der Spree took place in November 1663 and was recorded by a tutor to the Elector's sons.

Although the Experimenta Nova does contain correspondence from 1665, there is no reason to doubt von Guericke's assertion that the work was essentially finished by March 1663.

Following the restoration of the monarchy, in 1663 the non-conformist Reverend John Norman, vicar from 1647 to 1660, was one of several ' religious fanatics ' confined to their homes by Lord Stawell's militia.

After Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1630 – 1685 ) was restored to the English throne following Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, he granted the chartered Carolina territory to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors, in 1663.

* The church of St. Augustine was built in the 14th century, but largely renovated for the funerals of Alfonso IV d ' Este in 1663.

Bazinière was named after Bertrand de La Bazinière, a royal treasurer who was imprisoned there in 1663.

Pre-1778 artifacts that never left the city since its founding include the Vajradhara statue made by Zanabazar himself in 1683 ( the city's main deity kept at the Vajradhara temple ), a highly ornate throne presented to Zanabazar by the Kangxi Emperor ( before 1723 ), a sandalwood hat presented to Zanabazar by the Dalai Lama ( c. 1663 ), Zanabazar's large fur coat which was also presented by the Kangxi Emperor and a great number of original statues made by Zanabazar himself ( e. g. the Green Tara ).

Charles Emmanuel II () ( 20 June 1634 – 12 June 1675 ) was the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine of France until 1663.