c. February – The English Parliament and bishops seek to suppress
Thomas Hobbes' treatise Leviathan.[1]
March 8 – In the
Cretan War, the navy of the
Republic of Venice defeats an Ottoman Empire naval force of 12 ships and 2,000 galleys that had attempted to seize a small Venetian galley near the port of
Agia Pelagia.
March 23 – The
Bawdy House Riots of 1668 take place in
London when a group of
English Dissenters begins attacking
brothels, initially as a protest against the harsh enforcement of laws against private worshippers and the lack of enforcement of laws against prostitution. Over a period of three days, rioters who join in the violence destroy brothels in the London districts of Poplar, Moorfields, East Smithfield, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, St Andrew's and Holborn.
June 4 –
Tangier, a city in Morocco that had come under control of the English colonial empire in 1661, is elevated by the English crown to the status of "free city".
June 12 –
John Dryden's play An Evening's Love, or The Mock Astrologer premieres at the Theatre Royal in London in a performance by the
King's Company players for King Charles and Queen Catherine.
June 16 – A group of Spanish Jesuit missionaries become the first European settlers to arrive at the island of
Guam, founding a mission to convert the
Chamorro people of the
Mariana Islands to Christianity.
June 18 –
Petro Doroshenko is proclaimed by the Russian Empire as the
hetman of all of
Ukraine, after having previously been granted leadership of the western half.
Ivan Briukhovetsky, who had ruled the eastern half and then led an uprising, is executed on the same day.
October 5 (September 25 O.S.) – The English blockade of the Moroccan port of
Salé begins as HMS Garland and
HMS Francis retaliate for raids from the port by the Barbary pirates. The blockade lasts for 10 days.
c. February – The English Parliament and bishops seek to suppress
Thomas Hobbes' treatise Leviathan.[1]
March 8 – In the
Cretan War, the navy of the
Republic of Venice defeats an Ottoman Empire naval force of 12 ships and 2,000 galleys that had attempted to seize a small Venetian galley near the port of
Agia Pelagia.
March 23 – The
Bawdy House Riots of 1668 take place in
London when a group of
English Dissenters begins attacking
brothels, initially as a protest against the harsh enforcement of laws against private worshippers and the lack of enforcement of laws against prostitution. Over a period of three days, rioters who join in the violence destroy brothels in the London districts of Poplar, Moorfields, East Smithfield, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, St Andrew's and Holborn.
June 4 –
Tangier, a city in Morocco that had come under control of the English colonial empire in 1661, is elevated by the English crown to the status of "free city".
June 12 –
John Dryden's play An Evening's Love, or The Mock Astrologer premieres at the Theatre Royal in London in a performance by the
King's Company players for King Charles and Queen Catherine.
June 16 – A group of Spanish Jesuit missionaries become the first European settlers to arrive at the island of
Guam, founding a mission to convert the
Chamorro people of the
Mariana Islands to Christianity.
June 18 –
Petro Doroshenko is proclaimed by the Russian Empire as the
hetman of all of
Ukraine, after having previously been granted leadership of the western half.
Ivan Briukhovetsky, who had ruled the eastern half and then led an uprising, is executed on the same day.
October 5 (September 25 O.S.) – The English blockade of the Moroccan port of
Salé begins as HMS Garland and
HMS Francis retaliate for raids from the port by the Barbary pirates. The blockade lasts for 10 days.