Event of Interest
Feb 4 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, grants residency to Luis Caravajal
- Mar 2 Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo, killing an estimated 100,000 people
- Mar 23 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
- Mar 31 English Parliament makes the Humble Petition to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines
- Apr 3 English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell refuses crown
- Apr 20 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
- Jun 1 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
- Jul 13 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
- Sep 19 Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
- Sep 24 1st autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
- Oct 1 Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
- Oct 3 French troops occupy Mardyke
- Nov 6 Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
Flushing Remonstrance
Dec 27 "Flushing Remonstrance" petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship
