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1666 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 666th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1666, the ...
1666 in England was the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem, which celebrated England's failure to be beaten either by fire (the Great Fire of London) or by the Dutch.
Central London in 1666, with the burnt area shown in pink and outlined in dashes (Pudding Lane origin [a] marked with a green line) The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, [ b ] gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall ...
cc. 1–5 are from the sixth session of the Cavalier Parliament (21 September 1666 – 8 February 1667) cc. 6–13 are from the seventh session of the Cavalier Parliament (10 October 1667 – 19 December 1667) This session was also traditionally cited as 18 & 19 Car. 2, 18 & 19 Chas. 2 or 18 & 19 C. 2.
Old St Paul's Cathedral was the cathedral of the City of London that, until the Great Fire of 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral.Built from 1087 to 1314 and dedicated to Saint Paul, this building was perhaps the fourth such church at this site on Ludgate Hill, going back to the 7th century.
After a long spell of hot and dry weather through mid-1666, the Great Fire of London started on 2 September 1666 in Pudding Lane. Fanned by strong winds and fed by wood and fuel stockpiled for winter, the fire destroyed about 13,200 houses and 87 churches, including St Paul's Cathedral . [ 41 ]
The Rebuilding of London Act 1666 is an Act of the Parliament of England (18 & 19 Cha. 2.c. 8) with the long title "An Act for rebuilding the City of London." [1] The Act was passed in February 1667 in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London and drawn up by Sir Matthew Hale.
The Four Days' Battle [a] was a naval engagement fought from 11 to 14 June 1666 (1–4 June O.S.) during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. It began off the Flemish coast and ended near the English coast, and remains one of the longest naval battles in history. The Royal Navy suffered significant damage, losing around twenty ships in total.