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Everything about 1668 totally explainedYear 1668 (MDCLXVIII') was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1668
January - June
July - December
Mid-July: Henry Morgan sacks Portobello, taking a lot of treasure.
Mid-July:Henry Morgan sacks Panama City, but very little money is seized and the city is burned.
Undated
Bishop Isaac Barrow founds the Bishop Barrow Trust to establish a university on the Isle of Man (King William's College).
First performance of Molière's comedy, L'Avare.
The British East India Company takes over Bombay.
Foundation of the First National Bank of Europe in Stockholm, Sweden, Riksbank.
Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar, which decides to expel all Roman Catholics in Ethiopia.
Births
April 20 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
May 8 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)
June 23 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
July 21 - Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (d. 1713)
September 8 - Giorgio Baglivi, Armenian doctor and writer (d. 1707)
October 18 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
October 30 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, sister of King George I of Great Britain (d. 1705)
November 10
November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar (d. 1736)
November 27 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (d. 1751)
November 30 - William August, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (d. 1671)
December 11 - Apostolo Zeno, Italian poet and journalist (d. 1750)
December 31 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)
Deaths
January 6 - Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (born 1608)
February 8 - Alessandro Tiarini, painter (born 1577)
February 21 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (born 1616)
March 16 - Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (born 1623)
April 7 - Sir William Davenant, English poet (born 1606)
April 21 - Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (born c. 1604)
May 21 - Christoph Delphicus zu Dohna, soldier and diplomat (born 1628)
June 20 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (born 1620)
September - Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch painter (born 1610)
September 16 - Paolo Emilio Rondinini, Bishop of Assisi (born 1617)
September 19 - Sir William Waller, English Civil War general (born c.1635)
November 17 - Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (born 1634)
November 22 - Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (born 1532)
Heads of state
France - Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)Further Information
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