1659

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2010) Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century Decades: 1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s Years: 1656 1657 1658 – 1659 – 1660 1661 1662 1659 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works v · d · e 1659 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1659 MDCLIX Ab urbe condita 2412 Armenian calendar 1108 ԹՎ ՌՃԸ Bahá'í calendar -185 – -184 Bengali calendar 1066 Berber calendar 2609 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  - Bikram Samwat 1715 – 1716  - Shaka Samvat 1581 – 1582  - Kali Yuga 4760 – 4761 Holocene calendar 11659 Iranian calendar 1037 – 1038 Islamic calendar 1069 – 1070 Japanese calendar Manji 2 (万治2年) Korean calendar 3992 Thai solar calendar 2202 v · d · e 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 slower Julian calendar. Events of 1659 January–June January 14 – Battle of Elvas: The Portuguese beat the Spanish. January 24 – Pierre Corneille's Oedipe premieres in Paris. 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 disbands 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 July 16 – Princess Henriette C. of Orange-Nassau marries John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. 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 fires 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. Undated 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. Georgians kill hundreds of thousands Persians and Turks living in Georgia and destroying their culture. Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium. Births 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) December 12 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739) Deaths 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