1659

Years: 1656 1657 1658 - 1659 - 1660 1661 1662

Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1659 in topic: Literature - Science - State leaders

Contents

1 Events 2 Science 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth.
• November 7 - 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois under the Treaty of the Pyrenees.
• The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris
• Diego Velázquez's portrait of Infanta Maria Theresa is first exhibited
• Thomas Hobbes publishes De Homine
• Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent
• Drought in India

Science

• Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium

Births

• July 28- Charles Ancillon, French protestant (d. 1715)

Deaths

• Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (b. 1633)

See also: 1659, 1603, 1620s, 1630s, 1633, 1640s, 1650s, 1656, 1657