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Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary.
The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.
Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin
Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people
The Hanseatic League, formed 400 years ago, holds its final meeting
Ottoman Turks take Candia, the Venetians lose Crete
Francois de Beaufort, grandson of Henry IV of France, goes missing at Candia, presummed dead
September 23 - Leopold I Habsburg grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb
Births
August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
Deaths
September 10 - Henrietta Maria, Dowager Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Princess of France and Navarra
October 4 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
October 14 - Antonio Cesti, Italian musical composer.
December 9 - Pope Clement IX
Pieter Cuypers
Publications
Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens by Jan Swammerdam, groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology
Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch das ist by Hans von Grimmelshausen, the first major German novel
Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
Tartuffe by Molière
Britannicus by Jean Racine
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