Year by year · 17th century
1664
1664 in world history: 6 events, 3 births, 9 deaths, 1 work, 5 states founded and 1 that came to an end. 1,147 recorded states existed that year.
Events
Charles II grants New Netherland to the Duke of York
The King granted his brother James lands between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers, then held by the Dutch. English ships seized New Amsterdam that August and renamed it New York.
Louis XIV opens a grand festival at Versailles
Louis XIV began 'The Pleasures of the Enchanted Island', a week of spectacles and plays including Molière's first Tartuffe. Versailles became the seat of court and government in 1682.
The Dutch hand New Amsterdam to the English
Facing English warships and an unwilling population, Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam without a fight. It was renamed New York after the Duke of York.
Battle
Sack of Surat
The sack of Surat in 1664 was a raid by the Maratha leader Shivaji on the wealthy Mughal port city of Surat in Gujarat.
In the profiles
Dutch EmpireEngland takes New Netherland and New Amsterdam
French EmpireColbert establishes the French East India Company
Born in 1664 3
Died in 1664 9
Works 1
States founded 5
States that came to an end 1
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