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| 1664 |
| | Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles | |
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| 1664 |
| | The Conventicle Act restricts worship in England to Anglican churches if more than a few people are present | |
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| 1664 |
| | Peter Stuyvesant accepts the reality of the military situation and yields New Amsterdam to the British without a shot being fired | |
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| 1665 |
| | The first recorded attempt at blood transfusion, at the Royal Society in London, proves that the idea is feasible | |
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| 1665 |
| | The Five Mile Act prevents Nonconformist ministers in England from coming closer than five miles to any town where they have ministered | |
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| 1665 |
| | The Great Plague of London causes as many as 7000 deaths in a week and perhaps a total of 100,000 by the end of the year | |
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| 1665 |
| | A new Danish constitution (the Kongeloven or King's Law) makes the monarchy hereditary and grants the king absolute power | |
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| 1665 |
| | Isaac Newton spends a creative period in Lincolnshire, at home in Woolsthorpe Manor, apples or no apples | |
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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 Guildhall Library
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