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| 1666 |
| | | New Amsterdam is renamed New York by the recently established English regime | |
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| 1666 |
| | | The Great Fire of London rages for four days, destroying 13,200 houses and 81 churches | |
|  | Loutherbourg Great Fire of London (detail) c.1799
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| 1666 |
| | | John Bunyan publishes his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, written in Bedford Gaol | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Michiel de Ruyter sails up the Thames to destroy much of the English fleet at its base in the Medway | |
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| 1667 |
| | | The first successful human blood transfusion is achieved in Paris by Jean Baptiste Denis, apparently saving the life of a 15-year-old boy | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Bernini's great curving colonnade is completed, to form the piazza in front of St Peter's | |
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| 1667 |
| | | French dramatist Jean Racine's first great success, Andromaque, finds tragic drama in a quadrangle of love | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton just £10 | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Wood-carver Grinling Gibbons arrives from Holland to begin an immensely successful career in England | |
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| 1667 |
| | | In the treaty of Breda, England keeps New Amsterdam and New Netherland, and Holland keeps the English-held territory of Surinam | |
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