1664 in History

Represents Dutch civic authority during the surrender negotiations with the English.

Attacks the Dutch Smyrna convoy during the naval crisis that leads toward open war.

Takes Fort Amsterdam as the Dutch colony passes to English control.

Recaptures Dutch West African posts after English attacks on the Guinea coast.

Leads English action against New Amstel after the main surrender of New Netherland.

Receives the surrender of New Amsterdam and begins English rule over New Netherland.

Baxter's nonconformist circle is threatened by the new law against conventicles.

Calamy's Presbyterian ministry is constrained by the Restoration legislation against conventicles.

Gives assent to the Conventicle Act forbidding unauthorised religious meetings of more than five people.

Cosin backs the Anglican settlement that restricts dissenting religious meetings.

Quakers face harsher pressure after Parliament restricts unauthorised religious meetings.

The Conventicle Act restricts unauthorised religious meetings outside the Church of England.

Sheldon supports stronger enforcement of Anglican uniformity through the Conventicle Act.

Approves sending De Ruyter from the Mediterranean to recover Dutch posts in West Africa.

Arrives with the royal commissioners before the peaceful surrender of New Amsterdam.

Sails with the English expedition sent to seize New Netherland.

Creates the company as part of his mercantilist programme for French overseas trade.

Authorises a company to expand French trade in Asia.

Authorises the French East India Company to expand French trade in Asia.

Organises the French West India Company to strengthen colonial commerce.

Becomes English governor after the surrender of New Amsterdam.

Observes a conspicuous spot on Jupiter, contributing to early studies of the planet's changing atmosphere.

Presents La Princesse d'Elide during the Versailles festival.

Clarendon's ministry supports legislation against nonconformist religious assemblies.

Hyde supports the Restoration religious settlement enforcing conformity against dissent.

Parliament advances religious uniformity by restricting conventicles and dissenting worship.

Becomes the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.

Grants his brother James a patent including New Netherland before the English expedition.

Receives the royal grant that gives his title to the future province and city of New York.

Zrinski's fortress of Novi Zrin becomes a focus of Ottoman pressure before its destruction.

Objects to the peace terms after expecting a stronger Habsburg advance against the Ottomans.

Provides music and entertainment for Louis XIV's Versailles festival.

Opens a major court festival at Versailles.

Opens the Versailles festival known as Les Plaisirs de l'Ile enchantee.

Recaptures Dutch West India Company posts taken by English forces.

The Restoration government strengthens Anglican conformity through measures later called the Clarendon Code.

Clarendon backs parliamentary reforms intended to secure the restored Church of England.

Repeals the 1641 Triennial Act while replacing it with a weaker parliamentary-meeting requirement.

Koprulu besieges and destroys Novi Zrin during the summer campaign.

Attacks the Dutch Smyrna convoy during escalating Anglo-Dutch naval tensions.

Surrenders New Amsterdam to Richard Nicolls after English ships enter the harbour.

Tartuffe is performed before Louis XIV and soon faces religious opposition.

Louis XIV sees Moliere's Tartuffe during court festivities at Versailles.

Sees Moliere's Tartuffe during court festivities.

Ashley-Cooper participates in government as Parliament reshapes the rules for future sessions.

Gives assent to the Triennial Parliaments Act requiring Parliament at least once every three years.

Presides over the Commons during the Parliament that passes the Triennial Parliaments Act.

Receives orders at Malaga to sail to West Africa against English seizures.

Becomes father of Mustafa, the future Sultan Mustafa II.

Birth of Mustafa II, son of Sultan Mehmed IV and Gulnus Sultan.

Gives birth to Mustafa, later Sultan Mustafa II.

Dies in a hunting accident after becoming a critic of the Treaty of Vasvar.

Commands French troops supporting the Imperial army against the Ottomans.