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1665 and Dutch
The French returned once more in 1664, and founded a second settlement at Sinnamary ( this was attacked by the Dutch in 1665 ).
Batavia, Dutch East Indies | Batavia, Java ( now Jakarta ), c. 1665.
* 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.
A short letter from Samuel Pepys to John Evelyn at the latter's home in Deptford, written by Pepys on 16 October 1665 and referring to ' prisoners ' and ' sick men ' during the Second Dutch War
** Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral ( d. 1665 )
The Second Dutch War ( 1665 – 1667 ) was started by English attempts to muscle in on Dutch possessions in Africa and North America.
The loss of New Netherland led to the Second Anglo – Dutch War during 1665 – 1667.
Though the attack failed, the Dutch in January 1665 allowed their ships to open fire on English warships in the colonies when threatened.
Upon the outbreak of war in 1665, these new vessels were mostly still under construction, and the Dutch only possessed four heavier ships of the line.
In 1665, England boasted a population about four times as large as that of the Dutch Republic.
In the summer of 1665 the bishop of Münster, Bernhard von Galen, an old enemy of the Dutch, was induced by promises of English subsidies to invade the Republic.
By the spring of 1666, the Dutch had rebuilt their fleet with much heavier ships — thirty of them possessing more cannon than any Dutch ship in early 1665 — and threatened to join with the French.
In 1665 the Dutch Marine Corps ( then under the name of Regiment de Marine ) had been created.
Around 1665, the followers of Shabbatai Zvi in İzmir interpreted the ships of Tarshish as Dutch ships that would transport them to the Holy Land.
In June 1665 the English had soundly defeated the Dutch in the Battle of Lowestoft, but failed to take advantage of it.
He therefore was made commander of the Dutch fleet on 11 August 1665, as Lieutenant-Admiral ( a rank he at the time shared with six others ) of the Amsterdam admiralty.
Rupert played a key part in the conferences held by the Duke of York in 1665 to review tactics and operational methods from the first Dutch war, and put these into practice before the St James Day battle.
Blow composed several anthems at an unusually early age, including Lord, Thou hast been our refuge, Lord, rebuke me not and the so-called " club anthem ", I will always give thanks, the last in collaboration with Pelham Humfrey and William Turner, either in honour of a victory over the Dutch in 1665, or more probably simply to commemorate the friendly intercourse of the three choristers.
At the end of 1665, he was called upon to fight again, being given a joint commission with Prince Rupert against the Dutch in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
He helped suppress the projected insurrection in Yorkshire in 1663, went to sea in the second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665, and took measures to resist the Dutch or French invasion in June 1666.
The control of foreign affairs was entrusted to him, and he was chiefly responsible for the attack on the Smyrna fleet and for the Second Anglo-Dutch War, during which he ironically married the beautiful Dutch Elisabeth van Nassau-Beverweert ( 28 December 1633-18 January 1718 ) in March 1665.

1665 and settlers
Colonization started in 1665, when the French East India Company sent the first 20 settlers.
Today's Shoal Harbor Museum and Old Spy House includes portions of a house constructed by Thomas Whitlock, one of the area's first European settlers, who arrived after the English conquest of New Netherland in 1665 as part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
In approximately 1665, the first Anglo settlers arrived in the area, who were mainly fishermen, farmers and boat builders.
Elizabeth, originally called " Elizabethtown " and part of the Elizabethtown Tract, was founded in 1665 by English settlers.
However in common with many ' Little Londons ' approximately or so from London, it has also been claimed that the name was given by settlers escaping the Great Plague of London of 1665.
English settlers first settled in Chatham in 1665, and the town was incorporated in 1712, naming it after Chatham, Kent, England.
The two proprietors of New Jersey attempted to attract more settlers to move to the province by granting sections of lands to settlers and by passing the Concession and Agreement, a 1665 document that granted religious freedom to all inhabitants of New Jersey ; under the British government, there was no such religious freedom as the Church of England was the state church.
In 1665, the charter was revised slightly, with the northerly boundary extended to 36 degrees 30 minutes north to include the lands of settlers along the Albemarle Sound who had left the Virginia Colony.
In 1665, John Hance was one of the settlers who negotiated with the Navesink Indians of the Lenni Lenape Tribe to purchase the lands of this peninsula and the immediate surroundings through the Monmouth Patent.
In 1639 he led the original settlers of Stratford, Connecticut, and served as the first minister of the church until his death, 7 September 1665.

1665 and on
As records were not kept of the deaths of the very poor, the first recorded case was that of one Rebecca Andrews on 12 April 1665.
The Musical, a musical loosely based on the 1665 plague
In 1665 they established a French settlement on the mainland of Hispaniola opposite Tortuga at Port-de-Paix.
* 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The resulting Chapel was consecrated on St Matthew's Day, 1665, and the eastern end was extended by George Gilbert Scott in 1880, when it was consecrated on the Feast of the Annunciation.
In 1665, Stuyvesant went to the Netherlands to report on his term as governor.
During the battle on 25 October 1665 an estimated 20, 000 Kongolese fought against the Portuguese who won the battle thanks to the early death in battle of the Kongolese king António I.
In 1665 he almost quarrelled with his fellow-Platonist, Henry More, because the latter had written an ethical work which Cudworth feared would interfere with his own long-contemplated treatise on the same subject.
In early 1665 the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War placed great pressure on Pepys.
He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.
In 1665 Christiaan Huygens suggested using the melting and boiling points of water as standards, and in 1694 Carlo Renaldini proposed using them as fixed points on a universal scale.
In principle, any wave impinging on a regular array of scatterers produces diffraction, as predicted first by Francesco Maria Grimaldi in 1665.
Year 1665 ( MDCLXV ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Based on this fact, many writers in the past and even the present have given Huygens the credit for inventing the modern form of spiral balance spring in 1675 rather than Hooke's earlier straight spring of 1665 because they considered that the spiral form automatically conferred the property of isochronism on the oscillating balance.
In August 1665, at the age of nineteen and as a gift for his friend Litchford, Flamsteed wrote his first paper on astronomy, entitled Mathematical Essays, concerning the design, use and construction of an astronomer's quadrant, including tables for the latitude of Derby.
Following the Restoration there arose a number of publications, including the London Gazette ( first published on 16 November 1665 as the Oxford Gazette ), the first official journal of record and the newspaper of the Crown.
Anne ( 6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714 ) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702.
Anne was born at 11: 39 p. m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of James, Duke of York ( afterwards James II and VII ), and his first wife, Anne Hyde.

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