Historical Events
- Jan 1 Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris
- Feb 8 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
- Feb 23 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
- Mar 15 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
- Apr 6 France declares war on Netherlands
- Apr 29 Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands
- May 2 John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
- May 6 Brandenburg monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
- May 15 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
- May 17 Frontenac becomes Governor of New France (Canada)
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