Major Events
- Mar 8 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
- Jun 3 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France
- Jun 14 Battle of the Dunes: English and French forces defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk during Franco-Spanish War
- Jun 23 Dutch troops occupy last Portuguese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon
- Jun 24 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
- Jun 25 Spanish garrison at Dunkirk surrenders to French and English
- Jul 31 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
- Aug 12 1st American police force forms (New Amsterdam)
- Aug 15 France, Sweden, Bavarian, Brunswick, Munster and Hessen-Kassel form Confederation of the Rhine
- Sep 3 Richard Cromwell ("Tumbledown Dick") succeeds his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
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Born in 1658
- Jan 9 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix), born in Lyon, France (d. 1733)
- Feb 13 Jan Baptist Wellekens, Dutch poet and painter, born in Aalst (d. 1726)
- Feb 18 Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
- Mar 5 Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, French colonial soldier and trader in North America (founded Detroit, Governor of Louisiana 1710-16), born in Les Laumets, France (d. 1730)
- Apr 19 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1690-1716), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1716)
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