Robert Hooke Appointed Professor of Geometry
Mar 20 Scientist Robert Hooke is appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London
- Apr 6 France & Saxony sign alliance
- May 14 Turkish Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
- Jun 4 Dutch Stadtholder William Frederick conquers Dijlerschans
- Jun 24 Colony of New Jersey founded when Duke of York grants Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret ownership of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers
- Jul 23 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
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Jul 31 Pierre Corneille's play, the tragedy "Othon" premieres in Paris
- Aug 1 Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu
- Aug 10 Austria and the Ottoman Empire sign the Peace of Vásvár
- Aug 29 Adriaen Pieck and Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
- Sep 8 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers
- Sep 20 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men
- Sep 24 Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
- Oct 28 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
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