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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
June 23
- Claimant King
Charles II of England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.
August 23
- Colonel
George Monck
forms
Monck's Regiment of Foot
, forerunner of
Coldstream Guards
November 4
-
William III of Orange
becomes Prince of the
House of Orange
the moment of his birth, succeeding his father who had died a few days earlier.
First modern
Palio
in
Siena
Puritans
chop down the original
Glastonbury Thorn
Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England
Jews
allowed to return to France and England
Cafés
begin to become popular in Europe
Three-wheeled
wheelchairs
used in
Nuremberg
Ann Greene , who had been hanged for
infanticide
in Edinburgh, wakes up in an autopsy table – she is pardoned
Abyssinia
deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries
Einkommende Zeitungen
– first German
newspaper
(cancelled 1918)
Ongoing events
Fronde
civil war
in
France
(
1648
-
1653
)
Births
February 2
-
Nell Gwynne
, English actress, royal mistress (d.
1687
).
May 26
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
(d.
1722
)
November 4
- Prince
William III of Orange
, King
William III of England
,
Scotland
, and
Ireland
(d.
1702
)
Deaths
February 11
-
René Descartes
, French philosopher (b.
1595
)
Giambattista Andreini
, Italian actor and playwright (b.
1578
)
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