Year (''' MDCLXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 20 - Poland cedes Kiev , Smolensk , and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty Of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) and Poland's status as a Central European Power .
- March 27 - In North America ( Canada ), explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur De La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus ( Jesuit s).
- June 15 - Jean-Baptiste Denis makes the first Blood Transfusion from Lamb to human.
- April 27 - The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of '' Paradise Lost '' for £10.
- May 24 - The War Of Devolution begins, France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté .
- June 12 -17 - In the Raid On The Medway , a Dutch fleet under admiral Michiel De Ruyter burns Sheerness , sails up the River Medway , raids Chatham dockyards and escapes with the royal barge ''The Royal Charles''.
- June 15 - The first human Blood Transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys . He transfuses the blood of a Sheep to a 15-year old boy. (Though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder).
- June 20
- ---Dutch troops attack Royal Navy ships in London and Chatham and burn them.
- --- Pope Clement IX succeeds Pope Alexander VII as the 238th Pope .
- April 29 - John Arbuthnot , English physician and writer (died 1735 )
- May 26 - Abraham De Moivre , French mathematician (died 1754 )
- June 18 - Ivan Trubetskoy , Russian field marshal (died 1750 )
- July 28 - Johann Bernoulli , Swiss mathemiatician (died 1748 )
- August 11 - Anna Maria Luisa De' Medici , last of the Medicis (died 1743 )
- September 5 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri , Italian mathematician (died 1733 )
- September 28 - Asano Naganori , Japanese warlord (died 1701 )
- November 2 - James Sobieski , Crown Prince of Poland (died 1737 )
- November 5 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola , German painter (died 1719 )
- November 30 - Jonathan Swift , Irish writer (died 1745 )
- December 9 - William Whiston , English mathematician (died 1752 )
- December 25 - Ehrengard Melusine Von Der Schulenburg, Duchess Of Kendal And Munster (died 1743 )
- exact date unknown - Yaoya Oshichi , a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (died 1683 )
- ''probable'' - Antonio Lotti , Italian composer (died 1740 )
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- May 2 - George Wither , English writer (born 1588 )
- May 7 - Johann Jakob Froberger , German composer (born 1616 )
- May 16 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl Of Southampton , English statesman (born 1607 )
- May 22 - Pope Alexander VII (born 1599 )
- May 25 - Gustaf Bonde , Swedish statesman (born 1620 )
- June 5 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino , Italian cardinal and historian (born 1607 )
- July 28 - Abraham Cowley , English poet (born 1618 )
- August 3 - Francesco Borromini , Swiss sculptor and architect (born 1599 )
- August 13 - Jeremy Taylor , Irish clergyman and writer (born 1613 )
- October 18 - Emperor Fasilides Of Ethiopia (born 1603 )
- November 12 - Hans Nansen , Danish statesman (born 1598 )
- November 28 - Jean De Thévenot , French traveler and scientist (born 1633 )
- ''date unknown'' - Antonio Abati , Italian poet
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