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Year 1659 (MDCLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1659
= January–June =
January 14 – Battle of Elvas: The Portuguese beat the Spanish.
January 24 – Pierre Corneille's Oedipe premieres in Paris.
February 11 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
February 16 – The first known cheque (400 pounds) is written (on display at Westminster Abbey).
April 22 – Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands the English Parliament.
May 22 – France, England, and Netherlands sign the Hedges Concerto treaty.
May 25 – Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector.
May 31 – The Netherlands, England, and France sign the Treaty of The Hague.
= July–December =
July 16 – Princess Henriette C. of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II.
September 30 – Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherland forbids tennis playing during religious services (first mention of tennis in what will be the U.S.).
October 12 – The English Rump Parliament fires John Lambert and other generals.
October 13 – General-major John Lambert drives out the English Rump-government.
November 7 – Treaty of Pyrenees: French King Louis XIV and King Philip IV of Spain agree to French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois, and formally end their 24-year war.
November 25 – Dutch forces under Michiel de Ruyter free the Danish city of Nyborg from Swedish conquest (earlier in the year).
December 16 – General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland.
December 26 – The Long Parliament reforms occur in Westminster.
=Undated=
The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris.
Diego Velázquez'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 occurs in India.
Science Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium.
Births
March 8 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
June 3 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
June 12 – Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719
July 20 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
July 28 – Charles Ancillon, French Protestant pastor (d. 1715)
December 12 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
See also :Category:1659 births.
Deaths
January 16 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
February – Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (b. 1633)
February 17 – Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
February 27 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
April 15 – Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
June 3 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
October 8 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian (b. c. 1603)
October 10 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
October 31 – John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
: See also :Category:1659 deaths.
Fictional 1659 September 30 – Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe).
The book 'The Witch Child' is set in this year. The papers were found in a quilt and have been modernised into a book written by Celia Rees.
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