Cromwell Grants Rights to English Jews
Feb 4 Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector, grants Portuguese Jew Antonio Fernandez Caravajal and other Sephardic Jews denizen status (1st known rights granted to English Jews)
- Mar 2 Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo, killing an estimated 100,000 people
- Mar 23 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
- Mar 31 English Parliament makes the Humble Petition and Advice to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines
- Apr 20 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
- May 8 English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell refuses the English crown
- Jun 1 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
- Jul 13 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
- Sep 19 Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
- Sep 24 1st autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
Treaty of Raalte
Oct 1 Treaty of Raalte: makes William III Prince of Orange no longer Stadtholder of Overijssel province
Flushing Remonstrance
Dec 27 "Flushing Remonstrance" petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship
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