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Year '1659' ('MDCLIX') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1659

January - June

July - December

Undated

Science

Births

Deaths

Fictional 1659

Events of 1659

January - June

★ January 14 - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish.

★ January 24 - Pierre Corneille's ''"Oedipe"'' premieres in Paris.

★ February 11 - The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.

★ February 16 - the first known cheque (400 pounds) is written (on display at Westminster Abbey).

★ April 22 - Lord Protector Cromwell disbands English parliament.

★ May 22 - France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty.

★ May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector.

★ May 31 - Netherlands, England and France sign the Treaty of The Hague.

July - December

★ July 16 - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II.

★ September 30 - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherland forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in what will be the U.S.).

★ October 12 - The English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals.

★ October 13 - General-major John Lambert drives out the English Rump-government.

★ November 7 - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV agree to treaty.

★ November 7 - The 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois under the Treaty of the Pyrenees.

★ November 25 - Dutch forces with Michiel de Ruyter free Danish city Nyborg from Swedish conquest (earlier in the year).

★ December 16 - General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland.

★ December 26 - The Long Parliament reforms occur in Westminster.

Undated

★ The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris.

★ Diego Velázquez's portrait of Infanta Maria Theresa is first exhibited.

★ Thomas Hobbes publishes ''De Homine''.

★ Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.

★ Drought in India.

Science

★ Christiaan Huygens writes ''Systema Saturnium''.

Births

★ March 8 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (died 1738)

★ June 3 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (died 1708)

★ June 12 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (died 1719

★ July 20 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (died 1743)

★ July 28 - Charles Ancillon, French Protestant pastor (died 1715)

★ December 12 - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (died 1739)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 16 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (born 1580)

★ February - Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (born 1633)

★ February 17 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (born 1593)

★ February 27 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (born 1609)

★ April 15 - Simon Dach, German poet (born 1605)

★ June 3 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (born 1619)

★ October 8 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian (born c. 1603)

★ October 10 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (born 1603)

★ October 31 - John Bradshaw, English judge (born 1602)
: ''See also .''

Fictional 1659

★ September 30 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe).



★ Book 'The witch child' was set. The papers were found in a quilt and have been modernised into a book written by Celia Rees