| 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%. |
| 1667 | France [theatre and dance] | The tragedy Andromaque/Andromache by the French dramatist Jean Racine is first performed. |
| 1667 | Italy [architecture] | The Piazza of Saint Peter's in the Vatican, Rome, Italy, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is completed. |
| c. 1667 | Netherlands [art] | The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer paints The Painter in His Studio. |
| 1667–1685 | France [law and government] | A substantial reform of French law takes place with the introduction of a new Civil Code, the Code Louis, in 1667. It is followed by the Criminal Code in 1670, the Maritime Code in 1672, the Commercial Code in 1673, and the Code Noir in 1685, which caters for slaves in the colonies. It remains the basis of French law until the Code Napoléon is introduced in 1804. |
| 1667 | England [literature and language] | The English poet John Milton publishes his epic poem Paradise Lost. A revised edition appears in 1674. |
| 30 January 1667 | Russia, Poland [treaties] | The Truce of Andrussovo is signed by Russia and Poland, thereby ending the Thirteen Years' War. Russia gives up many of the gains made in the Treaty of Vilna but retains Smolensk, Kiev, and the east bank of the River Dnieper. Both countries commit themselves to a joint defence against the Ottoman Turks. |
| 24 May 1667 | France, Spain, Spanish Netherlands [War of Devolution (1667–68)] | After issuing a justificatory essay, King Louis XIV of France makes a call to arms and French troops invade the Spanish Netherlands to begin the War of Devolution. His pretext is that under Brabant law his wife Maria Theresa, as a child of King Philip IV of Spain's first marriage, has a much better claim to Spanish territories in the Netherlands than her half brother King Charles II of Spain. |
| 20 June 1667 | Papal States, Italy [Catholicism] | Pope Clement IX is elected, with French support, following the death of Pope Alexander VII. |
| 21 July 1667 | United Netherlands, France, West Indies, UK [treaties] | The Peace of Breda ends the second Anglo-Dutch war. England makes a treaty with France to cede Acadia in North America and recover Antigua, Montserrat, and St Kitts in the West Indies. A second treaty between England and the United Netherlands allows the Dutch to retain Surinam in the West Indies and England the Dutch colonies of New Netherland, Cape Coast Castle, and Fort James. |
| 30 November 1667 | Ireland [births and deaths] | Jonathan Swift, Irish author and satirist, author of Gulliver's Travels, born in Dublin, Ireland (–1745). |
