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List of events
Events from the year 1665 in England
Incumbents [ edit ] 4 March – beginning of the Second Anglo-Dutch War .[1]
6 March – the Philosophical Transactions Royal Society of London begins publication, the first scientific journal in English and the oldest to be continuously published.
7 March – HMS London accidentally explodes in the Thames Estuary killing 300 with only 24 survivors.[2]
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
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 (from 25 September) Oxford .
2 August – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Dutch naval victory at the Battle of Vågen off Norway.
21 September – consecration of new chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge , 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 Oxford Gazette .
Great Fire of Rolvenden , Kent.
Royal Navy Dockyard established at Sheerness for storage and refitting.Publications [ edit ] 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, illegitimate son of Charles II (died 1716)
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper , Lord Chancellor (died 1723)Charles Gildon , writer (died 1724)Benjamin Johnson , actor (died 1742)References [ edit ]
