Major Events
- Jan 30 After nine months of negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English Parliament for around £100,000
- Mar 14 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm
- Mar 25 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
- May 11 Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam
- May 23 William II Prince of Orange sworn in as Stadtholder of Holland
- May 26 Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut
- May 26 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
- Jun 4 English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War
- Jun 8 England parliament bans Christmas, Easter and Whitsun festivities, services and celebrations, including in the home, with fines for non-compliance - proves unpopular [1]
- Jul 7 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples
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Did You Know?
Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut
Born in 1647
- Jan 2 Nathaniel Bacon, British-born American colonist (leader of 1676 Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia), born in Suffolk, England (d. 1676)
- Jan 7 Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- Jan 30 Konrad Hoffler, German composer, born in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1705)
- Mar 12 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
- Apr 1 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind) and courtier of King Charles II, born in Oxfordshire, England (d. 1680)
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