Editing 1668 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; Bishop [[Isaac Barrow (bishop)|Isaac Barrow]] founds the [[Bishop Barrow Trust]] with the intention of establishing a university on the [[Isle of Man]]; this becomes [[King William's College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/jmmuseum/d029.htm|work=Journal of the Manx Museum|title=Bishop Barrow's Historic Deed|access-date=2014-08-28}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Henry Morgan's raid on Porto Bello]]: Welsh privateer [[Henry Morgan]] and 450 men under his command plunder the city of [[Portobelo, Colón|Portobello]] on the Isthmus of Panama and spend 14-days in the attack before withdrawing.  
*[[July 25]] &ndash; The magnitude 8.5 [[1668 Shandong earthquake|Shandong earthquake]] kills at least 43,000 people in China's [[Shandong]] province.<ref>{{cite web |title=25 July 1668 Tancheng (Shandong) |url=https://emidius.eu/GEH/info/?en=1668.0725 |publisher=Global Historical Earthquake Archive |access-date=23 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jianshe Lei |author2=Dapeng Zhao |author3=Xiwei Xu |author4=Mofei Du |author5=Qi Mi |author6=Mingwen Lu |title=P-wave upper-mantle tomography of the Tanlu fault zone in eastern China |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |date=2020 |volume=299 |issue=106402 |page=106402 |doi=10.1016/j.pepi.2019.106402|bibcode=2020PEPI..29906402L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[August 17]] &ndash; The magnitude 8.0 [[1668 North Anatolia earthquake|North Anatolia earthquake]] causes 8,000 deaths in northern [[Anatolia]], [[Ottoman Empire]], and is the most powerful earthquake recorded in Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825081330/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 August 2009|title=Historic Worldwide Earthquakes |publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]|access-date=27 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zabci |first1=C. |last2=Akyüz |first2=H. S. |last3=Karabacak |first3=V. |last4=Sançar |first4=T. |last5=Altunel |first5=E. |last6=Gürsoy |first6=H. |last7=Tatar |first7=O. |year=2011 |title=Palaeoearthquakes on the Kelkit Valley Segment of the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey: Implications for the Surface Rupture of the Historical 17 August 1668 Anatolian Earthquake |url=http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-11-20-4/yer-20-4-4-0910-48.pdf |journal=Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=20 |pages=411–427 |access-date=27 September 2021 |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926193329/https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-11-20-4/yer-20-4-4-0910-48.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Molière]]'s [[comedy]] ''[[The Miser]]'' (''L'Avare'') is first performed, in Paris.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[John II Casimir Vasa|Jan II Kazimierz Waza]] abdicates his titles of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania after a 20-year reign.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The [[British East India Company]] takes over [[Mumbai|Bombay]] under a Royal Charter of March 27.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Diego de Salcedo]] is overthrown from his position as the Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines]] in a coup d'etat led by [[Juan Manuel de la Peña Bonifaz]].  Salcedo and other members of his administration are jailed and then sent into exile from [[Luzon]] to the island of [[Panay]], and his fortune is confiscated.