Second Anglo-Dutch War Begins
1665
Commercial rivalry and English seizures of Dutch ships off West Africa triggered a second war between the two Protestant sea powers. Its highlight, the Dutch raid on the Medway in 1667, would humiliate the English navy and see the fleet flagship towed away in plain sight of Chatham. The war demonstrated that Dutch naval daring could still match English ambition at sea.
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Also in 1665 (3 other events on record)
- Newton's Annus Mirabilis Begins · Europe · Science
- Great Plague of London · Europe · Science
- Philosophical Transactions Launched · Europe · Science
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.