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March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
March 6 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication
March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders
June 3 - The Duke of York defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
June 12 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
Charles II of Spain becomes King
London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die. (See the Great Plague.)
Rumours abound that syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners to frequent the brothels
King Charles II moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter
Battle of Ambuila: Portuguese forces defeat and kill king Garcia II of Kongo, ending native rule of that kingdom.
Molière publishes L'Amour médecin
John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection, Alexendre Le Grand, and The Indian Emperor
Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot
Plague in Cambridge and London
Births
February 6 - Princess Anne Stuart, later Queen Anne of Great Britain
Deaths
January 12 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
June 25 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
September 17 - Philip IV of Spain
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