- Jan 24 Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
Bossuet Ordained
Mar 18 Renown French preacher Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ordained as a priest, having been named Archdeacon of Sarrebourg
Cape Colony Founded
Apr 6 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
- May 4 Battle of Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
- May 10 John Johnson, a free African-Virginian, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Virginia by his father
- May 13 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
- May 18 Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
- May 19 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
Battle of Goodwin Sands
May 29 Battle of Goodwin Sands, off Folkestone, Kent: English 'General at Sea' Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp
- Jun 10 In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
- Jun 27 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
- Jul 4 Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
- Jul 6 Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
- Jul 10 England declares war on The Netherlands - beginning of the 1st Anglo-Dutch war
- Jul 25 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church
- Aug 26 Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory
- Sep 7 Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English
- Sep 16 Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk
- Sep 28 English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
- Oct 13 Prince of Condé flees Paris
- Oct 21 King Louis XIV returns to Paris
- Dec 10 Sea battle at Dungeness: Dutch Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats an English fleet led by Robert Blake
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