1668

Year 1668" (MDCLXVIII"') was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1668

January - June

* January - The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed between England, Sweden and the United Provinces.
* February 13 - In Lisbon, a peace treaty is established between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England, where the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch is recognized. Portugal yields Ceuta to Spain.
* May 2 - The first Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution.

July - December

* Mid-July - Henry Morgan sacks Portobello, taking a lot of treasure.
* Mid-July - Henry Morgan sacks Panama City, but very little money is seized and the city is burned.

Undated

* Bishop Isaac Barrow founds the Bishop Barrow Trust to establish a university on the Isle of Man (King William's College).
* Molière's comedy, "L'Avare", is first performed.
* The British East India Company takes over Bombay.
* The First National Bank of Europe (the "Riksbank") is founded in Stockholm, Sweden.
* Emperor Yohannes I of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar, which decides to expel all Roman Catholics in Ethiopia.

Births

* April 20 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
* May 8 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)
* June 23 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
* July 21 - Frederick Heinrich of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (d. 1713)
* September 8 - Giorgio Baglivi, Armenian doctor and writer (d. 1707)
* October 18 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
* October 30 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, sister of King George I of Great Britain (d. 1705)
* November 10
** Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
** François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
* November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar (d. 1736)
* November 27 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (d. 1751)
* November 30 - William August, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (d. 1671)
* December 11 - Apostolo Zeno, Italian poet and journalist (d. 1750)
* December 31 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738)

Deaths

* January 6 - Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (b. 1608)
* February 8 - Alessandro Tiarini, painter (b. 1577)
* February 21 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
* March 16 - Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. 1623)
* April 21 - Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (b. c. 1604)
* May 21 - Christoph Delphicus zu Dohna, soldier and diplomat (b. 1628)
* June 20 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
* September - Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch painter (b. 1610)
* September 16 - Paolo Emilio Rondinini, Bishop of Assisi (b. 1617)
* September 19 - Sir William Waller, English Civil War general (b. c. 1635)
* November 17 - Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b. 1634)
* November 22 - Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b. 1532)

Heads of state

* France - Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)