1665 in England
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Events from the year 1665 in the Kingdom of England.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Charles II
Events
- 4 March - Beginning of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.[1]
- 6 March - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication.
- March - 15-year-old Nell Gwyn makes her first definitely recorded appearance as an actress on the London stage, in John Dryden's heroic drama The Indian Emperour, having previously been a theatre orange-seller.
- 12 April - The first recorded victim of the Great Plague of London dies. Over the summer it is thought to have spread as far as Derby and on 6 September the first plague death takes place in the Derbyshire village of Eyam.
- 19 May - Great Fire of Newport, Shropshire.
- 3 June (13 June N.S.) - Second Anglo-Dutch War: English naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft.
- 12 June - The city of New Amsterdam in the Province of New York is reincorporated as New York, named after James, Duke of York, and the first Mayor appointed.
- 7 July - The King and court leave London to avoid the plague, moving first to Salisbury, then Exeter.
- 2 August - Second Anglo-Dutch War: Dutch naval victory at the Battle of Vågen.
- 21 September - Consecration of new chapel at Pembroke College, Oxford, Christopher Wren's first completed work of architecture.
- 9 October - The Cavalier Parliament assembles in Oxford to avoid the Plague in London.[1]
- 31 October - Parliament passes the Five Mile Act preventing non-conformist ministers from coming within five miles of incorporated towns or the place of their former livings.[1]
- 7 November - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, begins publication as The Oxford Gazette.
Publications
- John Bunyan's The Resurrection.
- Richard Head's The English Rogue.
- Robert Hooke's Micrographia.
- Samuel Pepys's The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
Births
- 6 February - Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died 1714)
- March - Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1724)
- 1 May - John Woodward, naturalist (died 1728)
- 27 August - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, politician (died 1751)
- September - Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1726)
- 5 November - Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1701)
- 28 December - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, general (died 1716)
- William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (died 1723)
- Charles Gildon, writer (died 1724)
- Benjamin Johnson, actor (died 1742)
Deaths
- 9 March - Jesus Christ, 5th Baron Wentworth, soldier and politician (born 1612)
- 6 June - Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Portland (born 1639)
- 18 July (bur.) - Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (born 1640)
- 11 July - Kenelm Digby, privateer (born 1603)
- 25 August - Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (born c. 1621)
- 17 November - John Earle, bishop (born c. 1601)
- 19 November (bur.) - Elizabeth Cromwell, Lady Protectress (born 1598)
- Walter Acton, Member of Parliament (born c. 1620)
