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Events
- February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
- April 20 – Oliver Cromwell expels the Long Parliament
- May 24 – Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans
- June 12 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.
- July 4 - The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12
- August 9 - English naval victory over Dutch fleet off the Texel
- December 16 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- End of the first period of republican government called the Commonwealth of England. The Rump Parliament was disbanded by Oliver Cromwell. See also the Long Parliament and Southamptonshire.
- Marcello Malpighi becomes a doctor of medicine.
- Stephen Bachiler returns to England.
- John Thurloe becomes the head of intelligence for Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate
- Taj Mahal finished
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Births
- January 13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
- February 17 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
- April 2 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1708)
- May 8 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)
- June 26 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (d. 1743)
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (d. 1724)
- Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (d. 1734)
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Deaths
- August 10 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)af:1653
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