Event of Interest
Jul 19 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer
- Aug 11 Battle of at Seneffe: French force led by Louis, Grand Condé fights a combined Dutch, Imperial and Spanish force under William of Orange, both sides suffer heavy casualties with neither gaining a clear advantage
Event of Interest
Aug 18 Jean Racine's "Iphigénie" premieres in Versailles
- Sep 20 2nd West Indies Company forms
- Oct 11 Pierre Corneille's "Surena" premieres in Paris
- Oct 15 Torsåker witch trials begin, largest witch trials in Sweden, 71 beheaded and burned
- Oct 16 Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Fürst Wenzel Lobkowitz
- Oct 26 Prince William of Orange occupies Grave
- Nov 10 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
- Dec 4 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago