Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

* 1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland ( d. 1714 )

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 Great Plague of 1665 was the last major outbreak of the plague in England.

Category: 1665 in England

* 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City ( the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam ).

* 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York ( later to become King James II of England ) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

The Great Plague of London of 1665 – 66 was the last major outbreak of the plague in England.

The word Unitarian had been circulating in private letters in England, in reference to imported copies of such publications as the Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians ( 1665 ), Henry Hedworth was the first to use the word " Unitarian " in print in English ( 1673 ), and the word first appears in a title in Stephen Nye's A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians ( 1687 ).

* Kenelm Digby of England ( 1603 – 1665 ), courtier, diplomat, privateer, and philosopher

* October 10 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England ( b. c. 1665 )

Anne ( 6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714 ) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702.

The Corporation Act 1661 required municipal officeholders to swear allegiance ; the Act of Uniformity 1662 made the use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer compulsory ; the Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except under the auspices of the Church of England ; and the Five Mile Act 1665 prohibited clergymen from coming within five miles ( 8 km ) of a parish from which they had been banished.

Stephen was named for a supposed founder of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who had, according to family tradition, come from England or Wales as early as 1665, as well as his great-great grandfather Stephen Crane ( 1709 – 1780 ), a Revolutionary War patriot who served as New Jersey delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

The Second Anglo-Dutch War was fought between England and the United Provinces from 4 March 1665 until 31 July 1667.

* Great Plague of London, a massive outbreak in England that killed an estimated 20 % of London's population in 1665 – 1666

One year later, April 8, 1665, Nicolls issued " The Monmouth Patent " to twelve men who had come from Western Long Island and New England seeking permanent stability for religious and civil freedom as well as the prospect of improving their estates.

The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1665 when William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was made Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

In 1665 Charles II, the King of England, dissolved the different charters of the three colonies in dispute, assumed governance, and renamed the area King ’ s County.

" Queen Anne " generally refers to Anne, Queen of Great Britain ( 1665 – 1714 ), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1702, and of Great Britain from 1707.

The Five Mile Act, or Oxford Act, or Nonconformists Act 1665, is an Act of the Parliament of England ( 17 Charles II c. 2 ), passed in 1665 with the long title " An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations ".

Category: 1665 in England

1665 – 1690, died after 1693 ) was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England.

His influence seems to have been at its height in 1665, when he boasted to Pepys that the King did nothing without his knowledge ; however as the naval war dragged on the Treasurer of the Navy was an obvious target and Pepys noted that by the spring of 1666 Carteret was being attacked on all sides.

Some population figures: 1647: 54, 1649: 26, 1662: 61, 1665: 30, 1675: 150, 1690: 40, 1738: 70-84, ( Bering expeditions ) 1775: 529, 1809: 921 1821: 1500-1600, ( port moved ) 1842: 800, 1855: 207, 1865: 100.

A lease was signed on the 23rd December 1665 and was renewed from time to time until the special services ceased in 1816, by which time the Huguenots had been fully assimilated into the city population.

It is only after the arrival of intendant Jean Talon in 1665 that France gave its American colonies the proper means to develop population colonies comparable to that of the British.

After New Netherland was conditionally ceded to the English in 1664, New Amsterdam was renamed New York by the English in June 1665, but for its Dutch population it remained New Amsterdam.

During the great plague of 1665, bargemen on the river continued to supply food to the population of London, and were granted permission to navigate the Thames without having to ask a Thames Lighterman for assistance, in recognition of the risks they had taken.

This was also where the Spanish ambassador had his house, and the area attracted many Spaniards from the reign of James I. Peticote Lane was severely affected by the Great Plague of 1665 ; the rich fled, and London lost a fifth of its population.

Their son, Mwaant Yav or Mwata Yamvo formed the central Lunda Kingdom there with a population of about 175, 000 and became its ruler from 1660 to 1665.

In 1665 the Great Plague almost wiped out the village population of 750 leaving only around 75 survivors.

He argued for an attracting principle of gravitation in Micrographia of 1665, in a 1666 Royal Society lecture " On gravity ", and again in 1674, when he published his ideas about the " System of the World " in somewhat developed form, as an addition to " An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations ".

Observed the comets of 1665 and other astronomical objects, and published about this topic.

Alex Charles Barre is one of the descendants of Guillaume Barre, French, born 1642 in St Valery, France and who settled about 1665 in the French West Indies, Martinique.

The London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the day in 1665 that a barber had shaved his head and that he tried on his new periwig for the first time, but in a year of plague he was uneasy about wearing it :" 3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it.

Among the best known works about this character today are Molière's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre ( 1665 ), Byron's epic poem Don Juan ( 1821 ), José de Espronceda's poem El estudiante de Salamanca ( 1840 ) and José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio ( 1844 ).

The Hôtel de Rambouillet was the Paris residence of Madame de Rambouillet, who ran a renowned literary salon there from about 1607 until her death in 1665.

The magnificent State bedroom was installed in about 1665 and further improvements were carried out during the 1670s and 1680s, possible under the direction of William Winde, who may also have designed the extraordinary terraced gardens.

Samuel Pepys admired Southampton's integrity and the stoicism with which he endured his painful last illness, but clearly had doubts about his competence as Treasurer ; in particular he graphically described the Council meeting in April 1665 where Southampton helplessly asked him where he was to find the funds requested.

In addition, in about 1665, following William's death, Lionel was granted freehold of of land in Ham and Petersham including that surrounding the house and a 61 year lease of of demesne lands.

We know little of certainty about Legrenzi ’ s activities between approximately 1665 and 1670, a situation considerably exacerbated by the destruction of local records during World War II.

Thomas Simon ( c. 1623 – 1665 ), English medalist, was born, according to Vertue, in Yorkshire about 1623.

On 4 February 1665 Samuel Pepys recorded an anecdote about Belasyse's civil war activities in a diary entry:

Later attempts were made to transform it into a university proper but it only existed as such for about 20 years before closing in 1665.

Little is known about the early years of the colony, other than that it succeeded in repelling an English attack in 1665 in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Described by critic Dave Marsh as " the most widespread folk song in the English language ," " Barbara Allen " dates as far back as the 17th century, when Samuel Pepys wrote about the song in a diary entry dated January 2, 1665.

There is a reference to the game at St Paul's School, London about 1665 concerning John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who studied there.

* Damaris ( 2 ) was born in Plymouth about 1627-8 and died in Plymouth between January 1665 / 6 and November 18, 1669.

At about this time, Strumica was visited by the Turkish travel writers Haji Kalfa ( 1665 ) and Evliya Çelebi ( 1670 ), who gave a description of the city making note of all Muslim buildings that were then found in Strumica.