Events in History
- Jan 10 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
- Feb 5 Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England
- Mar 26 The Quebec Seminary established by François de Montmorency-Laval, First Bishop of New France. North America's first institution of higher learning. [1]
- Apr 1 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
- Apr 6 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
- Apr 18 Osman declares war on Austria
- May 7 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
- Jun 8 Battle at Amegical: English & Portuguese fleet beats Spanish
- Jul 8 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
- Jul 11 Oxford mathematician John Wallis gives a lecture on Euclid’s parallel postulate, first Western attempt to derive the parallel postulate as a theorem
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Cotton MatherHistorical Figures Who Died in 1663
- Jan 29 Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies
- Feb 19 Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
- Apr 7 Francis Cooke, Mayflower Pilgrim, dies at approximately 80
- Jun 4 William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies
- Sep 18 Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint, dies at 60
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