Events Date 1665 | History by KabAstro

Feb 27 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Dutch Vice-admiral De Ruyter captures Fort Cormantin from the English

English Declare War

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

Jansenism

May 15 Pope Alexander VII appoints committee to investigate Jansenism

May 31 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah

Battle of Lowestoft

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]

King of England, Scotland and Ireland James II

Jun 6 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese armies beat Spain
Jun 7 Boston's First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]

Pepys Writes of London Plague

Jun 7 Great Plague of London: Samuel Pepys writes in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London's Drury Lane, meaning somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days or until death

Drivers of death carts in London would go street-to-street extolling people to "bring out your dead" at the height of the London plague outbreak in 1665

Jun 12 England installs a municipal government in New York City
Jun 12 New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York
Jun 13 Battle of Lowestoft, off Suffolk, England: English fleet beats Dutch
Jun 17 Battle of Viciosa (Monte Claros): English & Portuguese army beat Spain
Jun 30 The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
Jul 29 Dutch VOC troops and their allies attack fort of Asaudi, driving out Makasar and Hoamoalese defenders, during Great Ambon War (modern Indonesia) [1]
Aug 2 Battle of Vågen: English warships attack a Dutch merchant and treasure fleet in neutral Bergen, Norway. English forced to retreat after suffering 421 dead and wounded.
Aug 2 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis and Algiers
Aug 27 "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is the first play performed in North America in Acomac, Virginia
Sep 22 Moliere's comedic play "L'amour Medecin" premieres for King Louis XIV at Versailles
Sep 26 Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week
Oct 5 The University of Kiel is founded.
Oct 9 Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster
Oct 29 Battle of Mbwila [Ambuila]: Portuguese defeat forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King Antonio I of Kongo / Nvita a Nkanga