1663
Events
January–June
- January 10 - The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England.
- February - English pirates carry out the sack of Campeche in Mexico.
- March 4 - The Prince Edward Islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean are discovered by Barent Barentszoon Lam, of the Dutch ship Maerseveen, and named Dina and Maerseveen.
- March 5 - Emperor Go-Sai's reign ends, and Emperor Reigen ascends to the throne of Japan.
- March 24 - King Charles II of England issues the Charter of Carolina, establishing the Province of Carolina, and dividing it between eight Lords Proprietors.
- April 17 - The Turks declare war against Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- May 7 - The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opens in London.
- June 8 - Battle of Ameixial: The Portuguese and some English auxiliaries defeat the Spanish.
July–December
- July 8 - King Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter for the American Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
- July 27 - The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act, requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
- August 21 - Concerned about the wintry weather, the Parliament of England holds an intercessory fast.
- August 28 - Severe frost hits England.
- July-Sept - The Esopus Wars in and around Kingston, New York, against the Esopus tribe of the Delaware Indians are ended after four years by a coalition of Dutch settlers, Wappinger and Mohawk tribes.
Date unknown
- The Prix de Rome scholarship is established in France for students of the arts.
- The first Maroon community arises in Suriname.
- Robert Hooke discovers that cork is made of "tiny little rooms", which he first calls "Cells".
- Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the "Eliot Indian Bible" becomes the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible, from English into the Massachusett language variety of the Algonquian languages.
Births
January 13 - Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, British politician January 19 - Nicholas Trott, colonial magistrate, South Carolina Chief Justice January 20 - Luca Carlevarijs, Italian painter January 26 - Francis Barrell, English politician January 27 - George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, English Royal Navy admiral February 1 - Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino religious sister February 4 - Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, English peer February 12 - Cotton Mather, American theologian February 22 - Louis Bossuet, French parlementaire February 25 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist March 3 - Nicolas Siret, French composer, organist and harpsichordist March 6 - Francis Atterbury, British bishop March 7 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist March 16 - Jean-Baptiste Matho, French composer March 18 - Johann Martin Steindorff, German composer March 22 - August Hermann Francke, German Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist, Biblical scholar March 25 - Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye March 27 - Johann Andreas Eisenbarth, German surgeon March 28 - Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken March 29 - Harry Mordaunt, British politician April 7 - Filippo II Colonna, Italian noble April 10 - Francisco de Berganza, Italian Benedictine monk April 14 - August David zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Prussian politician April 16 - Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz-Neuburg, German Catholic bishop May 1 - Giacomo Parolini, Italian painter May 2 - Joseph de Gallifet, French Jesuit priest May 8 - Lord James Murray, Scottish Member of Parliament May 17 * Rosine Elisabeth Menthe, morganatic wife of Duke Rudolf August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel * Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, English politician May 20 - William Bradford, English-born printer in North America May 25 - Johann Dientzenhofer, German architect May 28 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Order of Saint John June 2 - Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, French journalist June 8 - Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington, British politician June 24 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French Catholic bishop, famous preacher July 1 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist July 11 - James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, British prince July 15 - Sir John Cropley, 2nd Baronet, English politician July 26 - Peter Hohmann, Edler of Hohenthal, Leipzig merchant and town councillor, raised to nobility August 9 - Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany August 18 - Catherine Repond, alleged Swiss witch August 24 - Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, fifth patroon in New Netherland August 31 - Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist September 1 - Jean Boivin the Younger, French writer September 16 - Johann Josua Mosengel, German organ builder September 20 * Pirro Albergati, Italian composer * Frederick William, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen * Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, Catholic bishop of Quebec September 25 - Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German composer and organist September 28 - Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton October 3 - Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen, German philosopher October 9 * Francis Xavier Schmalzgrueber, German canon law jurist * Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, Italian critic and poet October 15 - Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield, English politician, earl October 17 - Diego de Astorga y Céspedes, Spanish Catholic cardinal October 18 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, Austrian Field Marshal October 23 - Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, duchess by marriage of Württemberg-Winnental October 24 - Stephen Delancey, major colonial New York figure November 13 - Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and manuscript collector November 14 - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German composer November 17 - Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, eldest legitimate child of Françoise-Athénaïs November 25 - Jean-Frédéric Osterwald, Swiss Protestant pastor November 29 - Sir Thomas Crosse, 1st Baronet, British aristocrat, politician November 30 - Andrea Adami da Bolsena, Italian castrato December 8 - Nathan Gold, deputy colonial governor of Connecticut December 20 - Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man December 24 - Ippolita Ludovisi, Princess of Piombino December 27 - Johann Melchior Roos, German painter December 31 - Carl Wilhelm Welser von Neunhof, German merchant, politician date unknown - *William King, English poet * Delarivier Manley, English authorDeaths
January 2 - Illiam Dhone, Manx politician January 6 - George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich, English soldier, politician January 22 - Giancarlo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal January 29 - Robert Sanderson, English theologian and casuist January 31 - John Spelman, English politician February 19 - Adam Adami, German bishop, diplomat March 13 - Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern March 17 - Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, English diplomat and landowner March 20 - Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer April 5 - John Norton, American divine April 7 - Francis Cooke, English Mayflower Pilgrim April 17 - David Questiers, Dutch poet April 20 - Kjeld Stub, Danish priest April 29 - Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, duchess consort of Parma May 3 - Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden May 6 - Johan van Rensselaer, Dutch noble May 11 - Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, Prince of France March 20 - Selius Marselis, Dutch/Norwegian tradesman May 30 - Jean Guyon, French colonist June 4 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury June 5 - Béatrix de Cusance, Frenc-Comtois noble woman June 20 - Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, French noble June 25 - John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, Anglican controversialist June 26 - John Alleyn, Cornish barrister July 2 - Thomas Selle, German baroque composer July 5 - Samuel Newman, colonial Massachusetts clergyman July 7 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist July 13 - Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet, English politician July 16 - William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel July 20 - Samuel Stone, Connecticut Puritan minister August 10 - Edward Convers, American settler August 26 - Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet, English politician September 18 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint September 20 - Thomas Stucley, English politician September 27 * Christoffer Urne, Governor General of Norway * Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg October 7 - Sophia Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg October 13 - Susanna Margarete of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau October 20 - Raphael Cotoner, Spanish 60th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller October 31 - Théophile Raynaud, French theologian November 24 - Louis IV of Legnica, Duke of Oława and Brzeg December 5 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer December 17 - Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba December 21 * Camillo Astalli, Italian cardinal * Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin, Scottish nobleman December 27 - Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy December 28 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician, physicist date unknown - Chiara Varotari, Italian Baroque painter
