Year by year · 17th century

1667

1667 in world history: 11 events, 2 births, 3 deaths, 1 state founded and 2 that came to an end. 1,150 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 30 November

    Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin

    Jonathan Swift, later Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, was born. His Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal made him one of the great satirists in English.

  2. Treaty · Peace

    Treaty of Breda (1667)

    The Treaty of Breda, signed in July 1667, ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War between England and the Dutch Republic, with France and Denmark.

  3. Treaty · Peace

    Truce of Andrusovo

    The Truce of Andrusovo, agreed in January 1667 in a village near Smolensk, ended the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667.

  4. Treaty · Peace

    Treaty of Bongaya

    The Treaty of Bongaya was signed in November 1667 between Sultan Hasanuddin of Gowa and the Dutch East India Company, whose commander Cornelis Speelman, allied with Arung Palakka of Bone, had defeated Makassar.

ProfileState987 states with a known seat in 1667Open the atlas at 1667 →

In the profiles

  • SurinameA Zeeland fleet captures the English colony, confirmed as Dutch by the Treaty of Breda
  • Republic of RagusaA great earthquake destroys much of the city
  • Tsardom of RussiaTruce of Andrusovo gives Russia Kyiv and left-bank Ukraine

Wars and longer events

Born in 1667 2

Died in 1667 3

States founded 1

States that came to an end 2

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