January 8 – Almost 200 people are arrested in
Coventry by English authorities for gathering to hear readings of the sermons of the non-conformist Protestant minister
Obadiah Grew
February 4 – A treaty is signed between
Brandenburg-Prussia and the indigenous chiefs at
Takoradi in what is now
Ghana to permit the German colonists to build a third fort on the Brandenburger Gold Coast. [1]
March 28 – An attack on a Mughal Empire envoy, Khwajah Abdur Rahim, outside of the Maratha fortress at the
Bijapur Fort in India leads to a siege of the city by the forces of Mughal Emperor
Aurangzeb. The siege lasts for 15 months before Bijapur surrenders.
September 29 – The first organised street lighting is introduced by the city of
London in
England, as Edward Hemming begins carrying out his contract to be paid for lighting an
oil lamp "at every tenth house on main streets between 6 PM and midnight between September 29 and March 25" on nights in the autumn and winter without adequate moonlight. [5]
October–December
October 22 – Louis XIV of France issues the
Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the
Edict of Nantes and declares
Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving
Huguenots of civil rights. Their Temple de Charenton-le-Pont is immediately demolished and many flee to England, Prussia and elsewhere.
December 3 – King
Charles XI of Sweden issues an order banning
Jews from settling in Sweden, particularly in the capital at
Stockholm "on account of the danger of the eventual influence of the Jewish religion on the pure evangelical faith." [6]
December 10 – In what is now
Thailand,
King Narai of
Ayutthaya signs a treaty with representatives of France at
Lopburi, allowing
Roman Catholic missionaries to preach the
Gospel and exempting Thai Catholics from work on Sunday, as well as appointing a special court to settle disputes between Thai Christians and non-Christians.
date unknown –
Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard (b.
1655)
References
^Ulrich van der Heyden, Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste: Die Brandenburgisch-preussische Kolonie Grossfriedrichsburg in Westafrika ("Red eagles on the African coast: the Brandenburg-Prussian colony of Grossfriedrichsburg in West Africa") (Selignow, 2001) p. 32
^Armbruster, Caroline (2016). "Alice Molland (d.1685)". In Levin, Carole; et al. (eds.). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives: 1500–1650. Routledge. p. 334.
OCLC949870073.
January 8 – Almost 200 people are arrested in
Coventry by English authorities for gathering to hear readings of the sermons of the non-conformist Protestant minister
Obadiah Grew
February 4 – A treaty is signed between
Brandenburg-Prussia and the indigenous chiefs at
Takoradi in what is now
Ghana to permit the German colonists to build a third fort on the Brandenburger Gold Coast. [1]
March 28 – An attack on a Mughal Empire envoy, Khwajah Abdur Rahim, outside of the Maratha fortress at the
Bijapur Fort in India leads to a siege of the city by the forces of Mughal Emperor
Aurangzeb. The siege lasts for 15 months before Bijapur surrenders.
September 29 – The first organised street lighting is introduced by the city of
London in
England, as Edward Hemming begins carrying out his contract to be paid for lighting an
oil lamp "at every tenth house on main streets between 6 PM and midnight between September 29 and March 25" on nights in the autumn and winter without adequate moonlight. [5]
October–December
October 22 – Louis XIV of France issues the
Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the
Edict of Nantes and declares
Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving
Huguenots of civil rights. Their Temple de Charenton-le-Pont is immediately demolished and many flee to England, Prussia and elsewhere.
December 3 – King
Charles XI of Sweden issues an order banning
Jews from settling in Sweden, particularly in the capital at
Stockholm "on account of the danger of the eventual influence of the Jewish religion on the pure evangelical faith." [6]
December 10 – In what is now
Thailand,
King Narai of
Ayutthaya signs a treaty with representatives of France at
Lopburi, allowing
Roman Catholic missionaries to preach the
Gospel and exempting Thai Catholics from work on Sunday, as well as appointing a special court to settle disputes between Thai Christians and non-Christians.
date unknown –
Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard (b.
1655)
References
^Ulrich van der Heyden, Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste: Die Brandenburgisch-preussische Kolonie Grossfriedrichsburg in Westafrika ("Red eagles on the African coast: the Brandenburg-Prussian colony of Grossfriedrichsburg in West Africa") (Selignow, 2001) p. 32
^Armbruster, Caroline (2016). "Alice Molland (d.1685)". In Levin, Carole; et al. (eds.). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives: 1500–1650. Routledge. p. 334.
OCLC949870073.