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Years:
1656 1657 1658 - 1659 - 1660 1661 1662
Decades:
1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1659 in literature
1659 in science

Events

  • May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth.
  • 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois under the Treaty of the Pyrenees (November 7).
  • The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris
  • Diego Velazquez'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 - Systema Saturnium
  • Births

  • July 28- Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot
  • Henry Purcell
  • Deaths

  • Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer
  • Willem Drost, Baroque painter and printmaker
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