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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
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Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium
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July 28- Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot
Henry Purcell
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Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer
Willem Drost, Baroque painter and printmaker
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