Major Events
- Feb 27 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Dutch Vice-admiral De Ruyter captures Fort Cormantin from the English
- Mar 4 English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
- Mar 6 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
- Mar 11 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
- Apr 30 Naval battle in Bay of Barbados between attacking Dutch fleet led by Michiel de Ruyter damages ships but fails to take the English-held fort [1]
- May 5 Dutch politician Nicolaas Witsen visits the politically powerful Patriarch Nikon, head of the Russian Orthodox church in Moscow
- May 15 Pope Alexander VII appoints committee to investigate Jansenism
- May 31 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
- Jun 3 Duke of York and the British fleet defeat the Dutch off the coast of Lowestoft, 1st fleet action of the Second Dutch War [1]
- Jun 6 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese armies beat Spain
- More 1665 Events
Did You Know?
New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York