Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1667
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Literature
- John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis
- August: John Milton, Paradise Lost, A Poem in Ten Books
Theatre
- John Dryden, Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, Theatre Royal
- John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-All, or the Feign'd Innocence
- Jean Racine, Andromacque
- January 24: Nell Gwyn plays Florimel ???
Art
- Christopher Wren is contracted to redesign many of the buildings lost
in the Great Fire
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini completes the Piazza San Pietro in Rome
- Jan Vermeer, Girl with a Red Hat
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Robert Hooke shows the relationship between circulation and
respiration
- Jean Baptiste Denis performs the first blood transfusion
(from a lamb to a boy)
- The French National Observatory is founded in Paris
Politics & Law
- 21 July: The Treaties of Breda end the second Anglo-Dutch War
- France invades Flanders and Hainault, beginning the War of Devolution
Philosophy & Theology
- Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz enters the Convent of
Discalced Carmelites of St. Joseph, where she spends three months
Milestones
- 3 August: Death of Francesco Borromini, Italian architect
- Birth of Jonathan Swift
Miscellaneous
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