[caption id=“attachment_3295” align=“alignleft” width=“238”] Sapling of the original Newton apple tree in Cambridge, England[/caption]

In the year 1666, the English court returns to London with the Great Plague of London subsiding (Feb 1), Isaac Newton witnesses the falling of an apple which leads him to discover gravity (May 3), the Great Fire of London occurs (Sep 2-5), Newton uses a prism to split sunlight, contributing to the scientific understanding of light, the first census in North America is completed - and all these fine people were born:

1666-0105 Guru Gobind Singh* spiritual master/warrior/poet - Patna Sahib (India) (1708/41) 1666-0315 George Bähr* architect/became the first in Germany to go by the title of “Architect” - Fürstenwalde, Saxony, Germany (1738/72) 1666-0514 Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia* Duke of Savoy - Royal Palace, Turin, Savoy (1732/66) 1666-0813 William Wotton* theologian/classical scholar/linguist - Suffolk, England (1727/60) 1666-0906 Tsar Ivan V of Russia*  - Moscow, Russian Empire (1696/29) 1666-1109 Carl Gustaf Armfeldt* baron/officer/ commander of the Finnish army - Swedish Ingria (1736/69) 1666-1112 Mary Astell* feminist writer - Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1731/64) 1666-1130 Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo* physician/discovered the  cause of scabies - Livorno, Italy (1696/29) Updated 28.4.2021 Search for another year here