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Contents
1 Events
2 Science
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
May 25
-
Richard Cromwell
resigns as
Lord Protector
of
England
following the restoration of the
Long Parliament
, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the
Commonwealth
.
November 7
- 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of
Roussillon
and most of
Artois
under the
Treaty of the Pyrenees
.
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
-
Systema Saturnium
Births
July 28
-
Charles Ancillon
, French
Huguenot
Henry Purcell
Deaths
Abel Tasman
, Dutch explorer
Willem Drost
,
Baroque
painter and printmaker
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