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1 Events
1.1 Events of the English Civil War
1.2 Ongoing events
2 Births
3 Deaths
Events
March 14
-
Thirty Years War
:
Bavaria
,
Cologne
,
France
and
Sweden
sign the
Truce of Ulm
.
August 8
- The
battle of Dungans Hill
,
Irish
forces are defeated by
British
Parliamentary
forces.
August
-
Peter Stuyvesant
appointed Director of
New Amsterdam
by the
Dutch West India Company
.
Johann von Werth
tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.
Events of the
English Civil War
Castle of
Aberystwyth
razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops
August: Army marches to
London
December 28
, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War
Ongoing events
English Civil War
(
1642
-
1649
)
Births
April 1
-
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
, English poet (d.
1680
)
August 22
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Denis Papin
, inventor of the
piston
steam engine
November 18
-
Pierre Bayle
, French philosopher (d.
1706
)
Henry Aldrich
,
English
theologian
and
philosopher
Deaths
May 21
-
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
,
Dutch
poet and historian
October 25
-
Evangelista Torricelli
Bonaventura Cavalieri
,
mathematician
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