Woolsthorp Manor, the birthplace and family home of Isaac Newton and where he stayed during the Great Plague (1665-1667)
In the year 1665, Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city, in exchange for an annual tax (Mar 16), as the Great Plague forces the closure of the University of Cambridge where Isaac Newton studies, he retires to his home for safety, and will there make many of his groundbreaking discoveries (Aug), the first play in English in the American colonies is performed in Pungoteague, Virginia (Aug 27), Robert Hooke’s Micrographia is published in London, first applying the term ‘cell’ to plant tissue (Sep) - and all these fine people were born:
1665-xxxx Ingeborg i Mjärhult* natural healer/soothsayer/spiritual visionary - Uthövdan, Sweden (1749/84)
1665-xxxx Juho Simunanpoika Västi** (b Hannuksela) father of Heikki Juhonpoika Västi - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1715/45-54) aby
1665-0111 Hermann Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Hechingen* German nobleman/field marshall - Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg (1733/68)
1665-0206 Queen Anne of England* Scotland and Ireland/later of Great Britain and Ireland - St.James Palace, Westminster, England (1714/49)
1665-0212 Rudolf Jakob Camerarius* German botanist/physician - Tübingen, Holy Roman Empire (1721/56)
1665-0304 Philip Christoph von Königsmarck* Swedish count/soldier - Stade, Germany, Holy Roman Empire (disappeared 1694/29)
1665-0419 Jacques Lelong* bibliographer/priest - Paris, France (1721/56)
1665-0604 Zacharie Robutel de La Noue* French captain in the colonial regular troops in Canada - Montreal (1733/c.68)
1665-0702 Samuel Penhallow* colonist/historian/militia leader in present-day Maine - St Mabon, Cornwall, England (1726/61)
1665-0821 Giacomo F. Maraldi* French-Italian mathematician/ astronomer/nephew of Giovanni Cassini - Perinaldo (1729/64)
1665-09xx Mikko Mikonpoika Rasku** (b Posso) father of Liisa Mikontytär Rasku - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1738/72)
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1665-1225 Lady Grizel Baillie* songwriter - Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland (1746/80)
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Updated 18.4.2023-2
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