See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
November 7 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
Charles II of Spain becomes King.
London has its last severe outbreak of the Black Death, possibly introduced by
Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000
die Rumours abound that Syphilis wards off the Plague, causing many Londoners
to frequent the Brothels.
King Charles II moves his court to Salisbury, then Exeter.
Molière publishes L'Amour médecin.
John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection, Alexendre Le Grand, and The Indian
Emperor.
Approximate date of the discovery of the Great Red Spot.
Births:
February 6 -
Princess Anne Stuart, later Queen Anne of Great Britain (+ 1714).
Deaths:
January 12 -
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician.
September 17 -
Philip IV of Spain.
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