May 17 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty

May 31 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes

May 03 French conquering fleet at Curaçao, 1200 die

May 11 French Admiral Jean d'Estrées' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaçao

Jan 02 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"

Jan 02 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"

Feb 13 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system

Feb 27 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower

Feb 18 John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published

Dec 03 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford

Aug 03 Robert LaSalle builds first ship in America, Griffon

Mar 04 The birth of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer