Burying in Woollen Acts
Cestui que Vie Act 1666
Fire of London Disputes Act 1666
Four Days' Battle
Great Plague of London
Rebuilding of London Act 1666
St. James's Day Battle
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1666 in England
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1666 in England: Other years 1664 | 1665 | 1666 | 1667 | 1668
Events from the year 1666 in England. This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by fire or by the Dutch.
Monarch - King Charles II
Events
London, as it appeared from Bankside, Southwark, During the Great Fire — Derived from a Print of the Period by Visscher
1 February - Royal court returns to London after the Great Plague of London.
1 June–4 June Second Anglo-Dutch War: Inconclusive Four Days Battle, one of the longest naval engagements in history.
25 July - Second Anglo-Dutch War: English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter at St. James's Day Battle.
2 September - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
5 September - Great Fire of London ends. Destruction of overcrowded houses ends Great Plague of London.
Undated
Isaac Newton develops differential calculus.
Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into its spectrum of colours, which leads to a greater understanding of the nature of light.
First Burying in Woollen Act.
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Publications
Thomas Hobbes' work De principiis et ratiocinatione geometrarum.
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Births
13 August - William Wotton, scholar (died 1727)
December
Stephen Gray (died 1736)
Mary Astell, writer (died 1731)
Josiah Burchett, Secretary of the Admiralty (died 1746)
John Harris, writer and encyclopaedist (died 1719)
John Quelch, English pirate (died 1704)
Deaths
16 January - Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, nobleman (born 1581)
24 February - Nicholas Lanier, composer (born 1588)
30 June - Alexander Brome, poet (born 1620)
10 July - John Fell, churchman (born 1625)
25 July - Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, noble (born 1608)
29 October
Edmund Calamy the Elder, Presbyterian leader (born 1600)
James Shirley, dramatist (born 1596)
Sir William Clarke, politician
Sir Richard Fanshawe, diplomat and translator (born 1608)
John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, noble (born 1595
James Howell, writer (born 1594)
Christopher Myngs, admiral and pirate (born 1625)
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Burying in Woollen Acts
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The Burial in Woollen Acts 1666-80 were Acts of the Parliament of England (citation 18 & 19 Cha. II c. 4 (1666), 30 Cha. II c. 3 (1678) and 32 Cha. II c. 1 (1680)) which required the dead, except plague victims, to be buried in pure English woollen shrouds to the exclusion of any foreign textiles. It was a requirement that an affidavit be sworn in front of a Justice of the Peace (usually by a relative of the deceased or some other credible person) confirming burial in wool, with the punishment of a £5 fee for noncompliance.
Parish registers were marked with the word affidavit or with a note A or Aff against the burial entries to confirm that affidavit had been sworn, or marked "naked" for those too poor to afford the woollen shroud. Some affidavits survive. This legislation was in force until 1814, but was generally ignored after 1770. These related records are generally regarded as a source of genealogical information, and can help provide evidence of economic status and relationships that may be unavailable elsewhere or ambiguous.
The 1666 Act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863.
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Cestui que Vie Act 1666 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cestui que Vie Act 1666 (18 & 19 Car 2 c 11) is an Act of the Parliament of England.
This Act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.
Parliament of England
An Act for Redresse of Inconveniencies by want of Proofe of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose lives Estates does depend.
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