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| 1656 |
| | | John Bunyan engages in a fierce war of pamphlets with the Quakers, with whose doctrines he profoundly disagrees | |
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| 1657 |
| | | The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work | |
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| 1657 |
| | | Andrew Marvell works as assistant Latin secretary to Milton in Cromwell's department for foreign affairs | |
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| 1658 |
| | | For the final years of his life the emperor Shah Jahan is held a prisoner, by his son Aurangzeb, in Agra's Red Fort | |
|  | Agra, Red Fort
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| 1658 |
| | | Samuel Pepys has a two-ounce stone cut from his bladder, in an operation carried out at home in the presence of his family | |
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| 1658 |
| | | Parliamentary reprisals against the rebellious Irish result in two thirds of Ireland's land being owned by the English or the Scots | |
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| 1658 |
| | | Cromwell dies after naming his son Richard to succeed him in the office of Lord Protector | |
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| c. 1658 |
| | | Prince Rupert of the Rhine pioneers mezzotint, the first half-tone technique in printing | |
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| 1658 |
| | | The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka | |
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| 1659 |
| | | The ineffective Richard Cromwell goes into voluntary retirement, an event linked to the strong possibility of a military coup | |
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