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| Years: 1656 1657 1658 - 1659 - 1660 1661 1662 | |
| Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
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Events
- May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth.
- November 7 - 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of Roussillon and most of Artois under the Treaty of the Pyrenees.
- The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris
- Diego Velázquez's portrait of Infanta Maria Theresa is first exhibited
- Thomas Hobbes publishes De Homine
- Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent
- Drought in India
Science
- Christiaan Huygens - Systema Saturnium
Births
- July 28- Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot
- Henry Purcell
Deaths
- Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer
- Willem Drost, Baroque painter and printmaker
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