Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1668
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Literature
- John Dryden named poet laureate
- Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, first six volumes
Theatre
- 26 February: George Etherege, She Would if She Could
- 2 May: Thomas Shadwell, The Sullen Lovers, or the Impertinents
Art
- Grinling Gibbons, woodcarver, arrives in England from Rotterdam
- Rembrandt, Self-Portrait
Music
- Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Francesco Redi, Italian physician, argues against spontaneous
generation by showing maggots do not develop in meat
- Robert Hooke, Discourse on Earthquakes
Newton builds the first reflecting telescope
- Antony Van Leeuwenhoek is the first to describe red
corpuscles in the blood
Politics & Law
- England, Holland, and Sweden form an alliance against Louis XIV of
France
- 2 May: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution
Philosophy & Theology
Milestones
- Birth of Thomas Archer, architect
- 4 October: Death of Rembrandt van Rijn
Miscellaneous
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