See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Henry Morgan captures Panama.
April -
Pope Clement X is elected.
May 2 - The Hudsons Bay Company is formed in England.
May 26 - In Dover,
Charles II of England and
Louis XIV of France secretly
sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
Phosphorus is discovered by
Hennig Brandt.
Blaise Pascal's Pensees is posthumously published.
England gains formal possession of Jamaica.
Les Invalides constructed by
Louis XIV of France.
Births:
January 24 - William Congreve, English playwright.
May 12 -
King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (+ 1733)
December 7 -
John Aislabie, Director of the South Sea Company.
Deaths:
February 19 -
Frederick III of Denmark.
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