1659
EventsMay 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. November 7 - 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois under the Treaty of the Pyrenees. 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 in India
Science Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium
BirthsJuly 28- Charles Ancillon, French HuguenotHenry Purcell
DeathsAbel Tasman, Dutch explorerWillem Drost, Baroque painter and printmaker
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