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1664| 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | 1664 | France [music] | The French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully completes his choral work Miserere/Have Mercy. | | 1664 | England [physics] | The English physicist Robert Hooke suggests that planetary orbits may be maintained by the constant attractive force of gravity between two bodies. | | 1664 | France [plays] | Two comedies, Le Tartuffe, ou l'imposteur/Tartuffe, or the Impostor (first published in 1669) and Le Mariage forcé/The Enforced Marriage, by the French dramatist Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) are first performed. | | 1664 | North America [horse-racing] | Organized sport begins in the North American colonies with the establishment by New York's first governor, Richard Nicholls, of the Newmarket horse racing course at Hempstead Plains, Long Island. | | 1664 | England [anatomy] | English physician Thomas Willis, professor of natural philosophy at Oxford, England, publishes Anatome cerebri nervorumque descriptio et usus/Use and Description of the Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, the most complete description of the brain yet written. It identifies the arteries which supply blood to the base of the brain. | | 1664 | UK, United Netherlands [Anglo–Dutch Wars (1652–74)] | Growing commercial rivalry between England and the United Netherlands causes a number of preliminary skirmishes to occur between the two countries in the colonies and at sea. The tension generated eventually leads to the outbreak of the second Anglo-Dutch war. | | 10 August 1664 | Ottoman Empire, Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | The Treaty of Vasvár ends the war between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The Ottoman Turks are confirmed in their occupation of Neuhäusel and Grosswardein, Mihály Apafi, the Ottoman nominee, is recognized as Prince of Transylvania, both sides agree to remove their armies from Transylvania, and financial compensation is to be paid. |
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Alberoni, Giulio
Anglebert, Jean Henri d'
Anglo–Dutch Wars (1652–74)
Ardemáns, Teodoro
Atkyns, Richard
Breda, Treaty of
Brodhead, John Romeyn
Etherege, George
First Folio
French East India Company
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horse-racing
Killigrew, Thomas
Lisle, Alicia
Mabillon, Jean
Montfleury, Antoine Jacob
Mun, Thomas
Ruysch, Rachel
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus
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| The Dutch establish the first permanent white settlement in
1660, but English armiestake control in 1664.
Although Foote's work point out that between 1664 and 1737 slave
imports to the city were small, with 70 percent imported from the West
Indies, and that between 1737 and 1771 slave imports had increased but
that approximately 60 percent still came from the West Indies, (12) it
is the research of Kruger that fleshes out the ethnic origins of
Caesar's image. As such, there was tremendous variation in where
and when interracial marriages were banned: some bans were enacted as
early as 1664 (Maryland), repealed as early as 1780 (Pennsylvania),
"and elaborated as late as the 1930s, when California, Arizona,
Maryland, and Utah all acted to bar men from the Philippines from
marrying white women" (3). |