- Jan 21 Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
- Mar 12 1st naturalization act in American colonies
- Mar 12 New Jersey becomes an English colony
Robert Hooke Appointed Professor of Geometry
Mar 20 Scientist Robert Hooke is appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London
Event of Interest
Mar 24 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
- Apr 6 France & Saxony sign alliance
- May 14 Turkish Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
- Jun 4 Viceroy Willem Frederik conquers Dijlerschans
- Jun 24 Colony of New Jersey founded when Duke of York grants Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret ownership of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers
- Jul 23 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
- Jul 31 Pierre Corneille's "Othon" premieres in Paris
- Aug 1 Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu
- Aug 10 Austria and the Ottoman Empire sign the Peace of Vásvár
- Aug 29 Adriaen Pieck and Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
- Sep 8 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers
- Sep 20 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men
- Sep 24 Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
- Oct 28 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.