1659
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This article is about the year 1659.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1659 MDCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2412 |
| Armenian calendar | 1108 ԹՎ ՌՃԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6409 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -185–-184 |
| Bengali calendar | 1066 |
| Berber calendar | 2609 |
| English Regnal year | 10 Cha. 2 – 11 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2203 |
| Burmese calendar | 1021 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7167–7168 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月初九日 (4295/4355-12-9) — to —
己亥年十一月十八日(4296/4356-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 1375–1376 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1651–1652 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5419–5420 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1715–1716 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1581–1582 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4760–4761 |
| Holocene calendar | 11659 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 659–660 |
| Iranian calendar | 1037–1038 |
| Islamic calendar | 1069–1070 |
| Japanese calendar | Manji 2 (万治2年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3992 |
| Minguo calendar | 253 before ROC 民前253年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2202 |
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Year 1659 (MDCLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day-behind Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- January 14 – Battle of the Lines of Elvas: The Portuguese beat the Spanish in the Portuguese Restoration War.
- January 24 – Pierre Corneille's Oedipe premieres in Paris.
- February 2 – Jan van Riebeeck produces the first South African wine at the Cape of Good Hope.
- 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 dissolves 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[edit]
- July 16 – Princess Henriette Catherine of Nassau marries John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, in Groningen.
- 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 dismisses 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.
Date unknown[edit]
- 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.
- Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium.
Births[edit]
- 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)
- September 10 – Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
- December 12 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
Deaths[edit]
- 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)
- November 10 – Afzal Khan, commander of the Bijapur Adilshahi forces
