A range of Premium beers by the French brewers, Kronenbourg. It originally referred to the lager, however the range has been extended to include:

• 1664 Brune - a dark ale
• 1664 Single Malt - Single Malt Premium ale.
• Special seasonal editions such as Bière de Noel (Christmas edition) and Bière de Mars (March edition)

The brewers claim that the number 1664 refers to the date when they first produced beer commercially.

While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle...I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!

-Samuel Pepys, August 7

Born in 1664:

• English playwright Matthew Prior.
• James Ogilvy, first Lord of Seafield, the last Lord Chancellor of Scotland, who signed the 1707 Act of Union dissolving the Scottish Parliament.
• French composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre.
• Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch.
• English architect and playwright John Vanbrugh.
• Japanese painter and sculptor Sonyu.
• Italian Cardinal, and Giulio Alberoni, future regent of Spain.
• Japanese printmaker Torii Kiyonobu.
• Future Ottoman sultan Mustafa II.

Died in 1664:

• Flemish painter Michiel Sweerts.
• Legendary Irish royalist soldier Daniel O'Neill.
• Italian composer Barbara Strozzi.
• Dutch painter Adam Willaerts.
• Dutch painter Cornelis Bega.
• English poet Katherine Philips.
• Calvinist apologist Moise Amyraut.
• Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán.
• Early Chinese Taiji Quan figure Chen Wangting.
• Former Cossack hetman Ivan Vyhovs'kyy, executed by the Poles after Cossack-Ukrainian peasant uprisings.
• Tens of thousands from plague in Amsterdam and Brussels. By December, people are dying from plague in London.
• Sikh guru Har Krishen Ji; Tegh Bahadur succeeds him.

Events of 1664:

• Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully collaborate on Le mariage forcé (The Forced Wedding) and The Princess of Elida. These have some success, but Molière's religious satire La Tartuffe is immediately banned.
• The French Horn makes its first appearance in orchestras.
• Heinrich Schütz's Christmas Oratorio appears.
• Jean de la Fontaine's collection of bawdy tales, Contes et nouvelles, appears.
• Pope Alexander VII
• adds a condemnation of Coperican theory to the Index of prohibited books. All "books which affirm the motion of the earth'' are proclaimed anathema.
• issues a decree condemning the Jansenists.
• Samuel Butler's publishes the second part of his epic poem Hudibras.
• The second issue of the third edition of William Shakespeare's plays is the first one to contain all of the plays now ascribed to him.
• Jean Racine's play La Thébaïde  (The Thebans) premieres.
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert convinces young Louis XIV to:
• establish a royal tapestry factory at Beauvais.
• dissolve the Compagnie des Îles d'Amérique and purchase Guadeloupe as a royal possession.
• Colbert also pressures Louis to reduce ranks of the nobility, whom he considers parasites crippling the French economy.
• Maryland prohibits interracial marriage, and relegates black people to lifelong slavery, the first colony to do so.
• Charles II
• sets up the territory of Maine for his brother James, Duke of York.
• Gives the territory between the Delaware River and New Netherland to his brother James, as well. James grants George Carteret and Lord Berkeley a charter to found New Jersey there.
• offers a prize of ten shillings a ton for every foreign merchant ship captured.
• sets up the Admiral's Regiment, a detachment of the Royal Navy later called the Royal Marines.
• is given some Chinese tea by English East India Company traders. He loves it even though it has been contaminated by seawater from a leaky hold, and the Company gains a concession that will make many of them rich and drive much of history in the future.
• Peter Stuyvesant has so alienated the Dutch settlers of New Netherland that they refuse to lift a finger to help when the English invade; Stuyvesant is forced to surrender Nieuw Amsterdam to the English without a shot being fired; they rename it New York (after James).
• Maratta warlord Shivaji captures and sacks the Gujarat city of Surat; he assumes the kingship of Surat and allows French traders establish a factory there.
• French buccaneers, having driven the Spanish from Hispaniola, found Fort de Paix, their first settlement in Haiti.
• The Knights Hospitaller attack Algiers.
• German divers salvage 53 cannons from the Swedish warship Wasa, which had sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628.
• The English Parliament passes The Coventicle Act, forbidding any non-Anglican religious gathering of more than five people. Also, they begin transporting Quakers to Maryland, New Jersey, and the West Indies.
• An Austrian army beefed up by contingents from several European countries defeats Ahmed Kuprulu leading an invading Ottoman army at Saint-Gotthard in Hungary.
• A Dutch fleet fails to recapture Fort Zeelandia (near Tainan) from the Chinese, but manages to capture Amoy in Fukien.
• Certain worthies of Lindheim, Germany begin trying and executing people for witchcraft in order to seize their property.

1663 - 1664 - 1665

How They Were Made - 17th Century