1667

1667 (MDCLXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1667th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 667th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1667, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1667 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1667 MDCLXVII
Ab urbe condita	2420
Armenian calendar	1116 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	6417
Balinese saka calendar	1588–1589
Bengali calendar	1074
Berber calendar	2617
English Regnal year	18 Cha. 2 – 19 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2211
Burmese calendar	1029
Byzantine calendar	7175–7176
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4363 or 4303     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4364 or 4304
Coptic calendar	1383–1384
Discordian calendar	2833
Ethiopian calendar	1659–1660
Hebrew calendar	5427–5428
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1723–1724
- Shaka Samvat	1588–1589
- Kali Yuga	4767–4768
Holocene calendar	11667
Igbo calendar	667–668
Iranian calendar	1045–1046
Islamic calendar	1077–1078
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 6 (寛文６年)
Javanese calendar	1589–1590
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4000
Minguo calendar	245 before ROC 民前245年
Nanakshahi calendar	199
Thai solar calendar	2209–2210
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 1793 or 1412 or 640     — to — མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1794 or 1413 or 641

Events

• January 20 – Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power.
• April 27 – The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
• June 12-17 – In the Raid on the Medway, a Dutch fleet under admiral Michiel de Ruyter burns Sheerness, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham dockyards and escapes with the royal barge The Royal Charles.
• June 15 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year-old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).
• June 20 – Dutch troops attack Royal Navy ships in London and Chatham and burn them.
• July 31 – Second Anglo-Dutch War ends: The Treaty of Breda ends the war. The treaty also recognizes Acadia as a French possession.
• October 18 – Brooklyn is chartered under the name Brueckelen by Mathias Nicolls, Governor of New Netherland.
• November 25 – Devastating earthquake rocks Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
• Suleiman I becomes Shah of Persia.
• The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb buys off the bandit Shivaji by making him a Rajah and allowing him to collect taxes.
• Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.
• The War of Devolution begins, France invades Flanders and Free County.
• Louis XIV of France abolishes the Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates Gabriel-Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of Paris.
• French army uses grenadiers.
• Yohannes succeeds his father Fasildos as Emperor of Ethiopia.

Births

• August 11 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Tuscan princess
• November 30 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer