Royal African Company
Jan 10 King Charles II affirms a new charter for the Royal African Company granting it a monopoly over trade along the west coast of Africa in "redwood, elephants' teeth, negroes, slaves, hides, wax, guinea grains, or other commodities of those countries"
- Feb 5 Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England
- Mar 26 The Quebec Seminary established by François de Montmorency-Laval, First Bishop of New France. North America's first institution of higher learning. [1]
- Apr 1 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
- Apr 6 King of England Charles II signs the Carolina Charter, gifting land in the American Southeast to eight friends who had helped him regain the throne
- Apr 18 Osman declares war on Austria
- May 7 Theatre Royal opens in Drury Lane, London
- Jun 7 Munsee Esopus make a surprise attack on Dutch settlement of Wiltwijck (Kingston, Hudson Valley, NY), killing 25 colonists and taking 45 hostage [1]
- Jun 8 Battle at Amegical: English & Portuguese fleet defeats the Spanish
- Jul 8 King Charles II of England approves the Rhode Island Royal Charter giving royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and freedoms to its colonists, among them Roger Williams
Euclid’s Parallel Postulate
Jul 11 Oxford mathematician John Wallis gives a lecture on Euclid’s parallel postulate, first Western attempt to derive the parallel postulate as a theorem
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