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1665 celestial phenomenon over Stralsund
1665 celestial phenomenon over Stralsund: on 8 April 1665 six herring fishermen reported an aerial battle of bird-turned-warships and a dark disc over St Nicholas Church, documented in a 10 April 1665 pamphlet and reinterpreted as mirage, omen, or UFO.
1666
1666 was a year of the 17th century marked by the Great Fire of London, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and an early blood transfusion recorded by the Royal Society.
1666 Takata earthquake
The 1666 Takata earthquake (寛文越後高田地震, Kanbun Echigo-Takata earthquake) struck present-day Jōetsu, Niigata, Japan, in February 1666, destroying Takata castle's defenses and much of its town.
1666: Amsterdam
1666: Amsterdam is a third-person witchcraft action-adventure by Panache Digital Games and Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets, starring Noa the Collector and the cat Aaron across 1666 and 1999, in Steam Early Access since August 25, 2026.
1667 Dubrovnik earthquake
The 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake, called the velika trešnja, struck on 6 April 1667, destroying most of Dubrovnik, then capital of the Republic of Ragusa, and killing thousands.
1667 Shirvan earthquake
The 1667 Shirvan earthquake struck Shamakhi, the historic capital of Shirvan in the eastern Caucasus, in late 1667 or early 1668, killing tens of thousands.
1668 Azerbaijan earthquake
The 1668 Azerbaijan earthquake was a large earthquake of about magnitude 7.0 that destroyed the city of Shamakhi in January 1668, killing an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people, with aftershocks continuing until 1671.
1668 North Anatolia earthquake
The 1668 North Anatolia earthquake struck on 17 August 1668 and is regarded as the largest historical earthquake in Turkey, with a fault break of about 400 km.
1668 Shandong earthquake
The 1668 Shandong earthquake, known in Chinese sources as the Tancheng earthquake (郯城大地震), struck southern Shandong Province on 25 July 1668 with a magnitude of 8½, the strongest recorded in continental China.
167 Urda
167 Urda is a large main-belt asteroid about 40 km in diameter, discovered by American astronomer C. H. F. Peters in 1876 and a member of the Koronis family.
1670 (TV series)
1670 is a Polish Netflix mockumentary satirical comedy (premiered 13 December 2023) about nobleman Jan Paweł Adamczewski of Adamczycha; three 8-episode seasons, season 4 due 2027, first Polish Netflix Original to reach season 4.
1672 eruption of Merapi
The 1672 eruption of Merapi, a volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began on 4 August 1672 and killed a reported 3,000 people.
1672 Rimini earthquake
The 1672 Rimini earthquake struck near Rimini, Italy, on Holy Thursday, 14 April 1672, with magnitude about 5.6, destroying much of the city and causing a weak tsunami.
1673 Mashhad earthquake
The 1673 Mashhad earthquake struck Khorasan, northeastern Iran on 30 July 1673, destroying about two-thirds of Mashhad, killing about 4,000 people, and badly damaging Nishapur; it is assigned to the Kashafrud fault.
1674 Ambon Island earthquake
The 1674 Ambon Island earthquake struck Ambon, Indonesia, on 17 February 1674, triggering a tsunami with a 100 m run-up that killed over 2,300 people.
1677 Japan earthquake
The 1677 Japan earthquake, known in Japanese as the Enpo Boso-oki earthquake, struck off the Boso Peninsula in November 1677, producing a tsunami that killed 569 people.
1679 Hebei earthquake
The 1679 Hebei earthquake, known as the Sanhe–Pinggu earthquake, was a magnitude 8 earthquake striking Sanhe and Pinggu near Beijing on September 2, 1679, the largest on record there.
1679 Yerevan earthquake
The 1679 Dvina earthquake, better known as the Garni or Yerevan earthquake, struck Armenia in June 1679, destroying Yerevan's fortress and toppling the Garni temple's colonnade.
167P/CINEOS
167P/CINEOS is a periodic comet and Centaur, discovered by the CINEOS survey in Italy on August 10, 2004, and one of the few Centaurs known to show cometary activity.
168 Sibylla
168 Sibylla (A876 SA) is a large C/Ch-type outer main-belt asteroid discovered 28 September 1876 by J. C. Watson at Ann Arbor; diameter about 146-149 km, orbital period 6.19 years, rotation 47.01 hours, Ceres-like spectra.
1680 Yunnan earthquake
The 1680 Yunnan earthquake struck Chuxiong in Yunnan Province, China, on September 9, 1680, destroying cities and killing close to 3,000 people, likely of magnitude above 7.
1683 Shanxi earthquake
The 1683 Shanxi earthquake struck near Yuanping in Shanxi Province, North China, in November 1683 with an estimated magnitude of 7.0, killing about 1,000 people.
1688 Benevento earthquake
The 1688 Benevento earthquake, also called the Sannio earthquake, was a magnitude-7 earthquake that struck the Sannio region of southern Italy on 5 June 1688, killing roughly 10,000 people.
1688 invasion of England
The 1688 invasion of England, also called the Glorious Revolution: William of Orange landed at Torbay on 5 November 1688 with a Dutch army, James II fled after mass desertions, and William and Mary took the throne in 1689 under a Declaration of Rights.
1688 Izmir earthquake
The 1688 Izmir earthquake was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that destroyed most of Izmir, then called Smyrna, in the Ottoman Empire, killing thousands on 10 July 1688.
169 Zelia
169 Zelia, main-belt asteroid (169) Zelia, MBA, about 34 km across, orbit a = 2.359 AU, e = 0.132, i = 5.5 deg, H = 9.31; size known from stellar occultations observed in 2010 and 2025.
1692 Jamaica earthquake
The 1692 Jamaica earthquake struck the town of Port Royal, Jamaica, on June 7, 1692, sinking about two-thirds of the town below sea level and killing roughly 2,000 people.
1693 Sicily earthquake
The 1693 Sicily earthquake was a pair of destructive earthquakes that struck southeastern Sicily on 9 and 11 January 1693, killing about 54,000 people and generating a tsunami.
1694 Calitri earthquake
The 1694 Calitri earthquake was a magnitude about 6.7 earthquake that struck the southern Apennines of Italy on 8 September 1694, leveling Calitri and killing hundreds.
1694 Ugo earthquake
The 1694 Ugo earthquake, also called the Genroku Noshiro earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck near Noshiro in present-day Akita Prefecture, Japan, on June 19, 1694.