1659
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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).
★ 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 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.
★ 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.
★ Christiaan Huygens writes ''Systema Saturnium''.
★ 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 .''
★ 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 .''
★ 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
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).
| Contents |
| 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
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