Today in History for Year 1659

Months in Year 1659: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 14th - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish
Jan 24th - Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
Feb 11th - The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
Feb 16th - 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
Apr 22nd - Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
May 22nd - France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty
May 25th - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
May 31st - Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
Jun 29th - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
Sep 30th - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
Sep 30th - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
Oct 12th - English Rump-government fires John Lambert & other generals
Oct 13th - Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-government
Nov 7th - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
Nov 17th - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
Nov 25th - Michiel de Ruyter conquerors Danish city Nyborg
Dec 8th - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
Dec 16th - General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
Dec 26th - Long Parliament reforms in Westminster

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 17 of 17

Jan 17th - Antonio Veracini, composer
Jan 21st - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
Feb 1st - Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island)
Mar 7th - Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)
Mar 8th - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
Mar 26th - William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher
May 16th - Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
Jun 3rd - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
Jun 12th - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
Jul 20th - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
Jul 23rd - Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
Jul 28th - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
Aug 1st - Antoine Mouque, composer
Oct 4th - Franz Weichlein, composer
Nov 6th - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
Dec 12th - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
Dec 20th - Francois Fagel, Dutch lawyer/statesman

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Jul 16th - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 11 of 11

Jan 16th - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
Jan 18th - Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64
Feb 17th - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
Feb 27th - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
Apr 15th - Simon Dach, German poet, dies
Jun 3rd - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
Sep 5th - Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71
Oct 8th - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
Oct 10th - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
Oct 27th - Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged
Oct 31st - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)