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April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
June 3 - Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims
June 6 - Charles X succedes his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
September 3 - In the English Parliament, the republican party question Cromwell's pre-eminence
September 12 - Oliver Cromwell orders the exclusion of the members of Parliament who are hostile to him
October 12 - Carel Fabritius, the most promising student of Rembrandt, dies aged 32 in an explosion at the arsenal at Delft
October 31 - Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria is crowned. His absolutistic style of leadership becomes a benchmark for the rest of Germany
November 23 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.
Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what would be the largest urban Jewish community in history, the Jewish community of New York City.
The Ukrainian Bogdan Chmielnicki renounces Ukrainian independence and swears allegiance to Tsar Alexis of Russia
The Russian Army seizes Smolensk, and war starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine
Otto von Guericke proves the existence of atmospheric pressure
Births
May 4 - Emperor Kangxi of China
Emperor Reigen of Japan
Deaths
August 31 - Olaus Wormius, Danish physician and antiquary.
October 12 - Carel Fabritius, artist
October 30 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan
November 30 - John Selden, English jurist
Samuel Scheidt, German composer
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