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Events

6–7 March – Exceptionally cold spell.^[1]

27 April – John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost with London printer Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £5.^[2]^[3]^[4] The first edition is published in October^[3] and sells out in eighteen months.^[5]

10 May – A second Conventicle Act, preventing groups of more than five non-followers of the Church of England from assembling, comes into effect with increased incentives for the authorities to prosecute.

9–14 June – Raid on the Medway: a Dutch fleet under admiral Michiel de Ruyter burns Sheerness, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard and escapes with the royal barge The Royal Charles.^[6]

27 June – An attempt by Dutch ships to enter the River Thames above Gravesend is called off.

2 July – A Dutch marine force lands near Woodbridge, Suffolk, and prevents Landguard Fort from being reinforced but a direct assault on the fort is beaten off by the garrison, The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, predecessor of the Royal Marines, and hence the first land action fought by marines.

3 July – A Dutch attack on Osleybay fails.

c. 13–17 July – Exceptionally warm spell peaks.^[1]

21 July (Old Style – 31 July New Style) – The Second Anglo-Dutch War is ended by the Treaty of Breda.^[7]^[8]

Undated

Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.

Elkanah Settle's play Cambyses, King of Persia performed.

Births

12 January – Jonathan Richardson, portrait painter, writer on art and collector (died 1745)

29 April – John Arbuthnot, physician and writer (died 1735)

9 December – William Whiston, mathematician (died 1752)

John Pomfret, poet and clergyman (died 1702)

John Richardson, Quaker preacher and autobiographer (died 1753)

Ned Ward, satirical writer and publican (died 1731)

Probable year – Susanna Centlivre, née Freeman, poet, actress and playwright (died 1723)

References

1. ^¹Pepys's Diary.
2. ^Equivalent to approximately £7,400 income in 2008. {{cite web|url=http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/|work=MeasuringWorth|year=2010|title=Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to Present|accessdate=2011-03-13}}
3. ^¹{{cite web|first=Gordon|last=Campbell|title=Milton, John (1608–1674)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18800|accessdate=2013-07-05|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/18800|quote=The sums involved are modest but quite normal.}} {{ODNBsub}}
4. ^{{cite journal|last=Lindenbaum|first=Peter|year=1995|title=Authors and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Century: New Evidence on their Relations|journal=The Library|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=s6-17|issue=3|pages=250–269|issn=0024-2160|doi=10.1093/library/s6-17.3.250|url=http://library.oxfordjournals.org/content/s6-17/3/250.extract}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/milton.asp|title=John Milton's Paradise Lost|publisher=The Morgan Library & Museum|accessdate=2011-04-25}}
6. ^¹²{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=190–191|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html |title=Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667 |work=Military History Encyclopedia on the Web |accessdate=2012-08-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/628QojB7I?url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html |archivedate=2 October 2011 |df= }}
8. ^{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|authorlink=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}

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