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Everything about 1659 totally explainedYear 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
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 (1st 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 Spanish king Philip IV agree to treaty.
November 7 - The 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois under the Treaty of the Pyrenees.
November 25 - Dutch forces with Michiel de Ruyter free Danish city 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 in India.
Science
Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium.
Births
March 8 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (died 1738)
June 3 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (died 1708)
June 12 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (died 1719
July 20 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (died 1743)
July 28 - Charles Ancillon, French Protestant pastor (died 1715)
December 12 - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (died 1739)
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Deaths
January 16 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (born 1580)
February - Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (born 1633)
February 17 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (born 1593)
February 27 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (born 1609)
April 15 - Simon Dach, German poet (born 1605)
June 3 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (born 1619)
October 8 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian (born c. 1603)
October 10 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (born 1603)
October 31 - John Bradshaw, English judge (born 1602)
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Fictional 1659
September 30 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe).
Book 'The witch child' was set. The papers were found in a quilt and have been modernised into a book written by Celia Rees
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