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Andrew Marvell works as assistant Latin secretary to Milton in Cromwell's department for foreign affairs
Samuel Pepys has a two-ounce stone cut from his bladder, in an operation carried out at home in the presence of his family
Parliamentary reprisals against the rebellious Irish result in two thirds of Ireland's land being owned by the English or the Scots
Cromwell dies after naming his son Richard to succeed him in the office of Lord Protector
Prince Rupert of the Rhine pioneers mezzotint, the first half-tone technique in printing
The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka
General George Monck marches south from Scotland to London, to intervene in England's unresolved political crisis
On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary
Monck, reaching London, dissolves the Long Parliament and convenes a new one
Charles II lands at Dover and is given a warm welcome in London four days later
Louis XIV grants New France the status of a royal province and greatly increases the flow of colonists to north America
Sweden wins the province of Skåne from Denmark, thus acquiring an unbroken stretch of Baltic coastline from Göteborg to Riga
John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol
The body of Oliver Cromwell is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn
The Cavalier Parliament begins to pass a series of acts, known as the Clarendon Code, containing punitive measures against Presbyterians
Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi discovers the capillaries, thus completing the evidence for the circulation of the blood
The British establish Fort James on an island in the Gambia river
A banker in Sweden, Johan Palmstruch, issues Europe's first paper currency, on behalf of the Stockholm Banco
Louis XIV establishes a royal dancing academy and soon follows it with a music academy
British chemist Robert Boyle defines the inverse relationship between pressure and volume in any gas (subsequently known as Boyle's Law)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert buys the Gobelin family workshops in Paris and transforms them into a royal factory for Louis XIV
The Act of Uniformity demands that Anglican clergy accept all the Thirty-Nine Articles, costing many their livings
An academy of English scientists is given a royal charter by Charles II and becomes the Royal Society
Colbert founds East India and West India companies to ensure a supply of raw materials for France's factories
Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles
