The Bay of New York Taken from Brooklyn Heights, a painting by William Guy Wall in the 1820s. Breuckelen was but one of the six Dutch villages in today’s Brooklyn, situated more or less where Brooklyn Heights is located.

In the year 1667, the first theater in Scandinavia opens in Stockholm, Sweden (Feb), the blind, impoverished John Milton seals a contract for publication of Paradise Lost (Apr 27), the first human blood transfusion is administered successfully, from sheep to human, but the patient dies, and the doctor is accused of murder (Jun 15), Milton’s Paradise Lost is published, with great success (Oct), Brooklyn is chartered under the name Breuckelen by the Governor of New Netherland (Oct 18), Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration - and all these fine people were born:

1667-xxxx Bartholdus Vhaël* Finnish priest/writer on the Finnish grammar - Oulu, Sweden-Finland (1723/c.55)

1667-0429 John Arbuthnot (B) physician/polymath/satirist - Kincardineshire, Scotland (1735/67)

1667-0508 Israel Nesselius* linguist/active in Finland/suggested the eradication of the Finnish language - Enköping, Sweden (1739/c.72)
1667-0526 Abraham de Moivre* mathematician - Vitry-le-François, Kingdom of France (1754/87)

1667-0618 Ivan Trubetskoy* military commander - Russian Empire (1750/82)

1667-0806 Johann Bernoulli* mathematician/a teacher of Leonhard Euler - Basel, Switzerland (1748/80)
1667-0811 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici* noblewoman/the last lineal descendant of the main branch of the House of Medici - Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Tuscany (1743/75)
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1667-0905 Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri* Italian mathematician/ Jesuit priest/scholastic philosopher - Sanremo (1733/66)
1667-0928 Asano Naganori* 浅野 長矩 daimyō (warlord) - Edo, Japan (1701/33)

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1667-1028 Maria Anna of Neuburg* German princess/Queen consort of Spain as wife of Charles II - Benrath Palace, Düsseldorf, Electoral Palatinate (1740/72)

1667-1105 Christoph Ludwig Agricola* Germans landscape painter/etcher - Free city of Ratisbonne (Regensburg), Holy Roman Empire (1719/51)
1667-1130 Jonathan Swift* satirist/essayist/poet - Dublin,  Kingdom of Ireland (1745/77)

1667-1209 William Whiston* mathematician/ historian - Norton-juxta-Twyross, Leicestershire, England (1752/84)

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