1667 in History – What happened in year 1667

In history, year 1667 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1667.

Top Historical Events of the Year 1667:

Date/Month	Event / Incidence / Incident
27 april	John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
15 june	The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. Jean-Baptiste Denys was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis XIV.
25 November	The devastating earthquake in Semkha in Russia's North Caucasus region killed 80,000 people.
30 November	Ireland writer Jonathan Swift died in Dublin. His book Goliwar Yatra Vrataanta is counted among the magnificent works of the world literature.
24 January	The Breda agreement was signed between Britain and Holland. Under which the Netherlands handed them over to Britain because they could not control their colonies in the continent of America.

Famous birthdays in the year 1667:

Date/Month	Name / Profession / Country
02 July	Pietro Ottoboni / Cardinal / Italy
04 December	Michel Pignolet de Montéclair / Educator / France
05 September	Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri / Mathematician / Italy
05 November	Christoph Ludwig Agricola / Painter / Germany
06 August	Johann Bernoulli / Mathematician / Switzerland
09 December	William Whiston / Historian / United Kingdom
18 June	Ivan Trubetskoy / Field Marshal / Russia
24 September	Jean-Louis Lully / Composer / France
26 May	Abraham de Moivre / Mathematician / United Kingdom
27 February	Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł / Queen / Lithuania
27 July	Johann Bernoulli / Mathematician / Switzerland
29 April	John Arbuthnot / Physician / United Kingdom
30 November	Jonathan Swift / Satirist / Ireland