1668 in England

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Incumbents

28 January - England signs the Triple Alliance with the United Provinces and Sweden.^[1]
17 January - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham fights a duel with Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury in which the Earl of Shrewsbury is fatally wounded.^[2]
13 February - Charles II mediates a peace treaty between Spain and Portugal.
13 April - John Dryden becomes Poet Laureate.^[3]

The British East India Company takes over Bombay.
The Forest of Dean is re-established as a royal forest.
William Penn imprisoned for writing a pamphlet attacking Trinitarian doctrine.^[1]
Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.^[4]
1668 or 1669 - James, Duke of York, the heir to the throne, secretly takes Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church.

1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 190–191. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ "January 17th". Chambers' Book of Days. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Eisel, John C. (September 2014). "Stedman, Fabian (bap. 1640, d. 1713)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68907. Retrieved 2015-04-23. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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