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Year 1321'' ( MDCLXVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1668

January - June

January - The Triple Alliance Of 1668 is formed.

February 13 - In Lisbon , a Peace Treaty is established between Afonso VI Of Portugal and Carlos II Of Spain , by mediation of Charles II Of England where is recognized the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch. Portugal yields Ceuta to Spain.

July - December

Mid-July: Henry Morgan sacks Portobello,taking a lot of treasure.

Mid-July:Henry Morgan sacks Panama City ,but very little money comes and the city is burned.

Undated

The first Treaty Of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War Of Devolution .

Bishop Isaac Barrow founds the Bishop Barrow Trust to establish a university on the Isle Of Man ( King William's College ).

First performance of Molière 's Comedy , '' L'Avare ''.

The British East India Company takes over Bombay .

Foundation of the First National Bank of Europe in Stockholm, Sweden, ''Riksbank''.

Emperor Yohannes I Of Ethiopia convenes a church council in Gondar , which decides to expel all Roman Catholic s in Ethiopia .

BIRTHS

April 20 - Yuri Troubetzkoy , Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739 )

May 8 - Alain-René Lesage , French writer (d. 1747 )

June 23 - Giambattista Vico , Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744 )

October 18 - John George IV, Elector Of Saxony (d. 1694 )

November 10 - Louis III, Prince Of Condé (d. 1710 )

November 10 - François Couperin , French composer (d. 1733 )

November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius , German scholar (d. 1736 )

December 31 - Herman Boerhaave , Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738 )

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DEATHS

January 6 - Luis De Benavides Carrillo, Marquis Of Caracena (born 1608 )

February 8 - Alessandro Tiarini , painter (born 1577 )

February 21 - John Thurloe , English Puritan spy (born 1616 )

April 7 - Sir William Davenant , English poet (born 1606 )

June 20 - Heinrich Roth , German Sanskrit scholar (born 1620 )

September 19 - Sir William Waller , English Civil War general (born c. 1635 )

November 17 - Joseph Alleine , English non-conformist preacher (born 1634 )

November 22 - Adolf William, Duke Of Saxe-Eisenach (born 1532 )

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HEADS OF STATE

France - Louis XIV , King Of France ( 1643 - 1715 )