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June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.
August 23 - Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of Coldstream Guards
November 4 - William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange the moment of his birth, succeeding his father who had died a few days earlier.
Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Tor
Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England
Jews allowed to return to France and England
Cafés begin to become popular in Europe
Three-wheeled wheelchairs used in Nuremberg
Ann Greene, who had been hanged for infanticide in Edinburgh, wakes up in an autopsy table – she is pardoned
Abyssinia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries
Einkommende Zeitungen – first German newspaper (cancelled 1918)
Ongoing events
Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)
Births
February 2 - Nell Gwynne, actress, royal mistress (+ 1687).
May 26 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (+ 1722)
November 4 - Prince William III of Orange, later Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht and King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Deaths
February 11 - René Descartes, philosopher.
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