Hudson's Bay Company Incorporated
May 2 King Charles II gives a royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company
- Jun 1 English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
- Jul 25 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
- Jul 25 Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes governor-general of Southern Netherlands
Bossuet Tutors the Dauphin
Sep 18 French bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet appointed tutor to the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV
- Oct 1 -4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
Tite et Berenice
Nov 28 Pierre Corneille's comedic play "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris
- Dec 31 France & England sign Boyne-treaty