1659

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  - 1650s -  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1656 1657 1658 - 1659 - 1660 1661 1662

1659 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1659 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Science 3 Births 3.1 Unknown dates 4 Deaths 4.1 Unknown dates 5 Fictional 1659

Events of 1659

January - June

• January 14 - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish.
• January 24 - Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris.
• February 16 - the first known check (400 pounds) is written (on display at Westminster Abbey).
• April 22 - Lord Protector Cromwell disbands English parliament.
• May 22 - France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty.
• May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector.
• May 31 - 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 (1st mention of tennis in U.S.).
• October 12 - The English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals.
• October 13 - General-major John Lambert drives out the English Rump-government.
• November 7 - Peace of Pyreneeen: 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

1659 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1659 MDCLIX
Ab urbe condita	2412
Armenian calendar	1108 ԹՎ ՌՃԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-185 – -184
Buddhist calendar	2203
Chinese calendar	4295/4355-12-9 (戊戌年十二月初九日) — to — 4296/4356-11-18 (己亥年十一月十八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1651 – 1652
Hebrew calendar	5419 – 5420
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1714 – 1715
- Shaka Samvat	1581 – 1582
- Kali Yuga	4760 – 4761
Holocene calendar	11659
Iranian calendar	1037 – 1038
Islamic calendar	1069 – 1070
Japanese calendar	Manji 2 (万治2年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2319 (皇紀2319年)
- Jōmon Era	11659
Julian calendar	1704
Korean calendar	3992
Thai solar calendar	2202
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• 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)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category:1659 births.

Deaths

• January 16 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (born 1580)
• 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 31 - John Bradshaw, English judge (born 1602)

Unknown dates

• Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (born 1603)
• Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (born 1633)

See also Category:1659 deaths.

Fictional 1659

• September 30 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe).

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