In 1665, French colonization of the island was officially recognized by King Louis XIV.

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

* 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

* April 8 – King Philip IV of Spain ( d. 1665 )

In 1665, St. Croix reverted by purchase to the French West India Company, and upon the Company's collapse in 1674, the King of France claimed it as part of his dominions, although the island was subsequently ordered to be abandoned as an economic failure-the date of abandoning would later be hotly disputed.

* Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 ), who served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 during the reign of King Louis XIV

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.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683 ) was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.

Philip IV of Spain (; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665 ) was King of Castile and León as Philip IV and King of Aragon and Portugal as Philip III ().

This jurisdiction remained significant until King Frederick III proclaimed absolute monarchy in 1660 ; this was ratified by the passage of the King Act of 1665, and this became the constitution of the Union of Denmark and Norway and remained so until 1814 and the foundation of the Storting.

Finally, after some hesitation, he publicly declared himself as the expected Messiah ( Jewish New Year, 1665 ); the declaration was made in the synagogue, with the blowing of horns, and the multitude greeted him with: " Long live our King, our Messiah!

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.

In 1665 King Narai the Great ordered a new palace built on the east bank of the Lopburi River and made Lop Buri the second capital of the country, as Ayutthaya was threatened by the Dutch.

The Château de Clagny in Versailles was built between 1674 and 1680 from the drawings of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Premier architecte du Roi, ( First architect of the King ), on land bought by Louis XIV in 1665.

This was codified in the King Act of 1665 which functioned as the constitution of the Union of Denmark-Norway until 1814.

Other features of the town include St Mary of Zion church, built in 1665 and said to contain the Ark of the Covenant ( a prominent 20th-century church of the same name neighbours it ), archaeological and ethnographic museums, the Ezana Stone written in Sabaean, Ge ' ez and Ancient Greek in a similar manner to the Rosetta Stone, King Bazen's Tomb ( a megalith considered to be one of the earliest structures ), the so-called Queen of Sheba's Bath ( actually a reservoir ), the 4th-century Ta ' akha Maryam and 6th-century Dungur palaces, the monasteries of Abba Pentalewon and Abba Liqanos and the Lioness of Gobedra rock art.

The fortress was named after King Fredrik III of Denmark and Norway, and the town of Halden was also originally named after him, having been known as Fredrikshald between 1665 and 1928.

Louise Angélique Motier de la Fayette ( November 8, 1618 – January 11, 1665 ) was a French courtier and close friend of King Louis XIII who renounced the corruption of his court and entered a convent.

Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC ( 28 December 1665 – 28 June 1716 ) was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II and his mother Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine ( also known as Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland ).

* 1665 – 1700: Charles III ( son of, also King of Spain )

His book Metallum Martis ( 1665 — quoted above ) is Dudd Dudley's personal view of his discovery, after he had unsuccessfully petitioned King Charles II, to restore his public offices and patents.

Several of the women who later came to be favourites to King Louis XIV were from her household: Louise de La Vallière, who gave birth there to two sons of the king, in 1663 and 1665 ; Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, who supplanted Louise ; and Angélique de Fontanges, who was in service to the second Duchess of Orléans.

In the reign of Philip's developmentally disabled son and successor Charles II ( 1665 – 1700 ), Spain was essentially left leaderless and was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.

In 1665, Charles was faced with a great health crisis: the Great Plague of London.

Charles used this as a pretext to declare war on the Netherlands on 4 March 1665.

The Battle of Lowestoft, June 13, 1665, showing HMS Royal Charles and the Eendracht.

The States-General simply referred to its declaration of 11 December 1665, no longer willing to make a slight concession that would allow Charles to withdraw from the war without losing face.

This title was granted by Charles II in 1665 when Dublin was part of the Kingdom of Ireland.

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.

Philip IV died broken-hearted in 1665, expressing the pious hope that his surviving son, Charles II, would be more fortunate than himself.

* the Five Mile Act, 17 Charles II c. 2, ( 1665 ), which sought to prevent nonconformists from living in incorporated and chartered towns.

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 ".

*' Charles II, 1665: An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations.

* Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat ( 1637 – 1665 )

The office of Mayor was elevated to Lord Mayor in 1665 by Charles II, and as part of this process received the honorific The Right Honourable ( The Rt.

The county of Vendôme was raised to the rank of a duchy and a peerage of France for Charles of Bourbon ( 1515 ); his son Antoine de Bourbon, king of Navarre, was the father of Henry IV, who gave the duchy of Vendôme in 1598 to his illegitimate son César de Bourbon ( 1594 – 1665 ).

Charles II of England appointed him as a composer for his own private music in 1665, and with the death of Nicholas Lanier in 1666 he became the second person to hold the title Master of the King's Musick.

In 1665 he advised Charles to grant liberty of conscience, but this was merely a concession to gain money during the war ; and he showed great activity later in oppressing the nonconformists.

He was reinstated in the offices he had filled under Charles I ; was invested in 1661 with the Order of the Garter which had been bestowed upon him in 1650, and was advanced to a dukedom on 16 March 1665.

Seven children followed: Mary ( 1662 – 1694 ), James ( 1663 – 1667 ), Anne ( 1665 – 1714 ), Charles ( 1666 – 1667 ), Edgar ( 1667 – 1671 ) and two daughters, Henrietta ( 1669 – 1669 ) and Catherine ( 1671 – 1671 ); all of her sons and two of her daughters died in infancy.

** Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist ( born c. 1665 )

** Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, writer on art ( died 1665 )

* Charles ( 1663 – 1665 );

She had given birth to a second son, Philippe, on 7 January 1665 ; but both children soon died, Charles on 15 July 1665, and Philippe before the autumn of 1666.