Horace
Mar 9 Pierre Corneilles play "Horace" premieres in Paris
- Apr 13 English Short Parliament forms (till May 5)
Event of Interest
May 3 English Upper house accepts Act of Attainder to execute Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, a leading advisor to Charles II
- May 5 English Short Parliament rises
- Aug 3 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malacca
- Aug 3 Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo" premieres in Toledo
- Oct 28 English King Charles I signs a peace treaty with the Scottish Covenanters, ending the Second Bishops' War
- Nov 3 English Long Parliament forms
- Nov 11 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
- Dec 1 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule following a revolution by Portuguese nobility; the Portuguese Restoration War begins and lasts until 1668 with recognition by Spain of the country's independence
- Dec 9 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
- Dec 15 Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
- Dec 25 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
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