Events in History
- Feb 2 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)
- Feb 3 Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
Appointment of Interest
Feb 7 Nicolas Fouquet appointed France's Superintendent of Finances
Deaths in History
- Feb 21 Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede and Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71
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