January 28 – The
Sultan bin Saif of Oman expels the Portuguese colonial government from
Muscat, forcing the surrender of the port of
Muttrah and of Fort Capitan, and captures two warships, ending 35 years of Portuguese occupation.
July 13 – Italian priest and astronomer
Gerolamo Sersale of Naples takes advantage of a full moon and draws an extremely detailed lunar map, which is then engraved and reproduced for other astronomers.
October 17 – The
Western Remonstrance is signed by members of the Parliament of Scotland who condemn the recognition of Charles II being crowned King of Scotland, and pledging allegiance to England's General Oliver Cromwell.
October 20 –
Queen Christina of Sweden, who has been the legal ruler of Sweden for almost 18 years, has an elaborate
coronation ceremony at the
castle of Jacobsdal near
Stockholm. The coronation had originally been planned for her 18th birthday in 1644 but was delayed by a war with Denmark-Norway.
November 24 – In China,
Qing dynasty forces led by
Shang Kexi capture the city of
Guangzhou from the
Southern Ming and then carry out a massacre of the population, killing as many as 70,000 people over 11 days ending on December 5.[3]
December 14 –
Anne Greene is hanged at
Oxford Castle in England for
infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.[4][5][6]
^Frederic Wakeman, The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (University of California Press, 1985) pp. 767–768
^A Scholler in Oxford (1651). Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject. Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield for Tho. Robinson. Includes Latin verses by
Christopher Wren.
^Hastie, Roy (1987). Nell Gwyn. London: R. Hale. p. 15.
ISBN9780709030997.
^Chandler, David (1979). Marlborough as military commander. London: Batsford. p. 7.
ISBN9780713420753.
^Claydon, Tony (2014). William III. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. p. 9.
ISBN9781317876830.
^Åkerman, Susanna (1991). Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine. Leiden New York: E.J. Brill. p. 50.
ISBN9789004246706.
January 28 – The
Sultan bin Saif of Oman expels the Portuguese colonial government from
Muscat, forcing the surrender of the port of
Muttrah and of Fort Capitan, and captures two warships, ending 35 years of Portuguese occupation.
July 13 – Italian priest and astronomer
Gerolamo Sersale of Naples takes advantage of a full moon and draws an extremely detailed lunar map, which is then engraved and reproduced for other astronomers.
October 17 – The
Western Remonstrance is signed by members of the Parliament of Scotland who condemn the recognition of Charles II being crowned King of Scotland, and pledging allegiance to England's General Oliver Cromwell.
October 20 –
Queen Christina of Sweden, who has been the legal ruler of Sweden for almost 18 years, has an elaborate
coronation ceremony at the
castle of Jacobsdal near
Stockholm. The coronation had originally been planned for her 18th birthday in 1644 but was delayed by a war with Denmark-Norway.
November 24 – In China,
Qing dynasty forces led by
Shang Kexi capture the city of
Guangzhou from the
Southern Ming and then carry out a massacre of the population, killing as many as 70,000 people over 11 days ending on December 5.[3]
December 14 –
Anne Greene is hanged at
Oxford Castle in England for
infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.[4][5][6]
^Frederic Wakeman, The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (University of California Press, 1985) pp. 767–768
^A Scholler in Oxford (1651). Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject. Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield for Tho. Robinson. Includes Latin verses by
Christopher Wren.
^Hastie, Roy (1987). Nell Gwyn. London: R. Hale. p. 15.
ISBN9780709030997.
^Chandler, David (1979). Marlborough as military commander. London: Batsford. p. 7.
ISBN9780713420753.
^Claydon, Tony (2014). William III. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. p. 9.
ISBN9781317876830.
^Åkerman, Susanna (1991). Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine. Leiden New York: E.J. Brill. p. 50.
ISBN9789004246706.