1668 in England

1668 Events from the year 1668 in England. Monarchs Monarch – Charles II Events 17 January – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, fights a duel with Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (with whose wife he was having an affair) in which the latter is fatally woundedhttp://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/17.htm January 17th Chambers' Book of Days 2007-12-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20071217192953/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/17.htm 17 December 2007 and a second is killed. 23 January – England signs the Triple Alliance with the Dutch Republic and Sweden.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 190–191 0-7126-5616-2 13 February – Charles II mediates a peace treaty between Spain and Portugal. 13 April – John Dryden becomes Poet Laureate.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 April (traditional date) – Actress Nell Gwyn becomes the King's mistress.Beauclerk 2005 Charles Charles Beauclerk (author) Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King Atlantic Monthly Press 0-87113-926-X registration https://archive.org/details/nellgwynmistress0000beau 128 7 May – Queen Catherine miscarries.Jenny Uglow Jenny Uglow A Gambling Man London Faber 2010 2009 978-0-571-21734-2 458 May – The King's former mistress, Barbara Castlemaine, leaves the Court and is pensioned. 21 September – The British East India Company takes over Bombay under a Royal Charter of 27 March. December – William Penn imprisoned for nearly 8 months in the Tower of London for writing a pamphlet attacking Trinitarian doctrine. Undated The Forest of Dean is re-established as a royal forest. Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope (Newton's reflector)https://books.google.com/books?id=7R8LsvMcUioC&pg=PA67 Isaac Newton: adventurer in thought Alfred Rupert Hall Rupert Hall 11 April 1996 67 9780521566698 Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.John C. Eisel Stedman, Fabian (bap. 1640, d. 1713) September 2014 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/68907 2015-04-23 10.1093/ref:odnb/68907 9780198614111 George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, probably originates the field sport of organised fox hunting in England with The Bilsdale Hunt in Yorkshire. 1668 or 1669 – James, Duke of York, the heir to the throne, secretly takes Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church. Births November (baptised) – Thomas Woolston, deist (died 1733) December (baptised) – Sarah Fyge Egerton, poet (died 1723) John Eccles, composer (died 1735) Approximate date Thomas Archer, baroque architect (died 1743) John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (died 1743) Deaths 21 February – John Thurloe, Puritan spy (born 1616) 16 March – Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (born 1623) 7 April – Sir William Davenant, poet (born 1606) 19 September – Sir William Waller, English Civil War general (born c. 1635) 17 November – Joseph Alleine, English non–conformist preacher (born 1634) probable date – Daniel Blagrave, Member of Parliament (born 1603) References 1668 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England