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Events
March 18
– Short-timed experiment of the first public
buses
holding 8 passengers begins in
Paris
May 3
/
May 2
-
Catherine of Braganza
marries
Charles II of England
– as part of the dowry,
Portugal
cedes
Bombay
and
Tangier
to
England
May 9
-
Samuel Pepys
witnessed a
Punch and Judy
show in London; the first on record.
Charles II of England
sells
Dunkirk
to
France
for £400.000
Royal Society
receives
royal charter
Milton, Massachusetts
is incorporated as a town.
John Graunt
, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, published statistical information about the births and deaths in London.
Births
January 27
-
Richard Bentley
, English Classical scholar
April 30
- Princess Mary Stuart, later Queen
Mary II of England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
.
Deaths
February 13
-
Elizabeth Stuart
, Deposed Queen consort and Princess of
Scotland
and
England
.
August 19
-
Blaise Pascal
, French mathematician, physicist and religious
philosopher
dies in
Paris
.
December 30
- Archduke
Ferdinand Charles of Austria
, Regent of the
Tyrol
and
Further Austria
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