Malpighi wrote his history of the silkworm in 1668, and sent the manuscript to Mr. Oldenburg.

Even so, William's supporters sought ways to enhance his prestige, and on 19 September 1668, the States of Zeeland received him as First Noble.

Montausier received from Louis XIV the order of the Saint Esprit, the government of Normandy, a dukedom, and in 1668 the office of governor of the dauphin, Louis le Grand Dauphin ( 1661-1711 ).

He received military training, and undertook a Grand Tour of Europe, spending eight months in 1668 – 69 in France and mid-1669 in England.

In 1668 Oliva, the general of the Jesuits, received a letter in which the king told that he planned to convert to Catholicism.

The next royal letter, dated 18 November 1668, says that Charles II had sent his son back to Rome to act as his unofficial ambassador to the Holy See and he would later return to London when he had received answers to questions the king was willing to deliver only orally.

At Montpellier he received his doctorate in medicine ( 1668 ) and subsequently practiced in Lyon to a wealthy clientele.

Still, he moved to Boston in the spring of 1668, and eventually produced excerpts of a letter from the New Haven church that appeared to grant his release.

Title page of Varia Historia, from the 1668 edition by Tanaquil Faber

The court of N ' Gangue M ' voumbe Niambi, from the book Description of Africa ( 1668 )

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.

In his book De Philosophia Cartesiana ( 1668 ) Bekker argued that theology and philosophy each had their separate terrain and that Nature can no more be explained from Scripture than can theological truth be deduced from Nature.

Map of Norway from 1668

* Beverly incorporated 1668 from Salem.

** Bradford incorporated 1668 from Rowley.

The Sheldonian Theatre, located in Oxford, England, was built from 1664 to 1668 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford.

Although England, the Dutch Republic and Sweden had signed a Triple Alliance against France in 1668 to prevent that country from occupying the Spanish Netherlands, Charles II of England signed the secret Treaty of Dover with France in 1670, entailing that England would join Louis XIV of France in a punitive campaign against the United Provinces.

By analogy Dorchester County itself marks the year of its organization as 1668 not form a formal creation but from the date on a writ to sheriff of the County of Dorset.

After graduating from Harvard College in 1668, Abraham was ordained a minister and he joined his father in New Ark.

Union Avenue, which runs from the Meadowlands to the Passaic River, may have been an Indian trail, but was more likely a property boundary line ; it was referenced in the 1668 grant of land by proprietary Governor Philip Carteret to John Berry.

Verstegan's account is also repeated in William Ramesey's Wormes ( 1668 )—"... that most remarkable story in Verstegan, of the Pied Piper, that carryed away a hundred and sixty Children from the Town of Hamel in Saxony, on the 22. of July, Anno Dom.

In 1668, Francesco Redi challenged the idea that maggots arose spontaneously from rotting meat.

The experiments of Redi on the hatching of insects from eggs, which were published at Florence in 1668, first brought discredit upon this doctrine, though it had always a few eminent disciples.

John Wilkins FRS ( 1 January 1614 – 19 November 1672 ) was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, as well as a founder of the Invisible College and one of the founders of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.

The convent of St. Nicholas, preserves its magnificent cathedral from 1668, as well as original iconostasis, belltower, walls, and gates.

Susanne le Pelley, Dame of Sark ( 1668 – June 24, 1733 ) was the 10th Seigneur of Sark from 1730 to 1733.

He acted as head of the group from 1662-1667, and again in 1668, when he left Caen again for Paris.

It developed as a compendium ( with multiple authorship ) from Philosophical Considerations Touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft ( 1666 ), addressed to Robert Hunt, a Justice of the Peace active from the 1650s against witches in Somerset ( where Glanvill had his living at Frome ); the 1668 version A Blow at Modern Sadducism promoted the view that the judicial procedures such as Hunt's court offered should be taken as adequate tests of evidence, because to argue otherwise was to undermine society at its legal roots.

It was also taken as a target when Francis Hutchinson set down An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft ( 1718 ); both books made much of reports from Sweden, and included by Glanvill as editor, which had experienced a moral panic about witchcraft after 1668.

He headed the Duke of York's Men and produced highly successful theatrical seasons at Lincoln's Inn Fields from 1660 until his death in 1668.

In 1668, Glanvill published one of the earlier versions of Saducismus Triumphatus, his A Blow at Modern Sadducism ... To which is added, The Relation of the Fam'd Disturbance by the Drummer, in the House of Mr. John Mompesson.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.

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.

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.

** Davideis by Abraham Cowley ( c. 1668 )

Bach's parents were married in 1668 in a small church, the Kaufmannskirche ( Merchant's Church ), that still exists on the main square, Anger.

* 1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.

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

On June 15, 1668, the galleon San Diego arrived at the shore of the island of Guam.

Chief Quipuha was the maga ' lahi, or high ranking male, in the area of Hagåtña when the Spanish landed off its shores in 1668.

He returned home in 1667, was admitted advocate in 1668 and gained a high legal reputation.

In 1668, the English commissioned two ships, the Nonsuch and the Eaglet, to explore possible trade into Hudson Bay.

On 5 June 1668, both ships left port at Deptford, England, but the " Eaglet " was forced to turn back off the coast of Ireland.

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

The great Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude ( born in what is present-day Sweden ) became organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck in 1668 and remained at the post until at least 1703.

Östgöta Nation, the oldest nation, was established in 1668, two years after the university was founded.

The first recorded proposal for a decimal-based unit of length was the universal measure unit proposed by the English philosopher John Wilkins in 1668.

In 1668, Wilkins proposed using Christopher Wren's suggestion of a pendulum with a half-period of one second to measure a standard length that Christiaan Huygens had observed to be 38 Rhineland or English inches ( 997mm ) in length.

The Mariana Islands were claimed by Spain in 1668.

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