| Year | Description | Reference |
| 1,659 AD | Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Antoine Mouque, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Antonio Veracini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Simon Dach, German poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Ferdinand W, prince of Wrttemberg-Neustadt/gen Dutch infantry, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Franz Weichlein, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | George I, King of England (1714-27), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Sebastian Duron, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Johannes Schenck, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Gy”rgy R k¢czi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Jean BG duke of Orl‚ans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Judith Jansdochter Leyster, House painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Klaas Geritsz Compaen, buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Johann Kuhnau, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Mehmed K”prl, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | William Leddra, last Quaker in Boston, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elected (Anti-Lucretius), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Louis XIV rules France on his own (24 years old) | TBD |
| 1,661 AD | Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bayern, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | "England seizes New Amsterdam from Dutch renaming it "New York" | TBD |
| 1,662 AD | Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Johann Crger, German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | John Tradescant, gardener, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Leonhart Nucleus, German sculptor, dies at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Giuseppi Vignola, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Jan F Van Bloom, [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye/land guardian of Austria-Neth, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Pierre Drevet, French engraver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Nicholas Siret, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Matthew Prior, English poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Louis Lully, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist, architect (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | John Vanbrugh, English architect/playwright baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Johann Christoph Pez, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Great Plague in London kills 75k (Bubonic) | TBD |
| 1,664 AD | Adam Willaerts, seascape painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Moise Amyrault, French theologist/vicar, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz, viceroy of Friesland, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Georg Osterreich, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch pension advisor (1727-36), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Lodew˜k van Nassau, Bavarian diplomat, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat thesis), dies at 24 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pieter J Saenredam, architect, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Nicolas Bernier, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Great fire of London | TBD |
| 1,665 AD | "Newton "discovers" gravity" | TBD |
| 1,665 AD | Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 78 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Pieter de Bitter, admiral (Colombo, Goa) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johnathan Swift born | TBD |
| 1,666 AD | Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Alphonse d' Eve, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Henri‰tte Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Fran‡ois Valent˜n, Dutch vicar/writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Adam Krieger, composer, dies at 32 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Adriaen A Bloemaert, landscape painter, dies at about 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Alexander Brome, British poet | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Henry de Fleury dee Coulan, mister of Buat/ritmeester, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann J Froberger, German singer/composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Gabriel Metsu, painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Francesco Manelli, composer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Calculus discovered by Newton and Leibniz. | TBD |
| 1,667 AD | Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Jean Bernoulli, mathematician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Jean-Louis Lully, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer/Luthers pi‰tist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Georg Bronner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Alonso Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann Rist, composer, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann Jacob Froberger, composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Fran‡ois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Francesco Gasparini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Jean Gilles, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Johan Georg IV, ruler of Saxon (1691-94), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Wierich PL earl von Daun, East prince of Thiano, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Cajetan Kolberer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | "P" Isolated | TBD |
| 1,669 AD | Bacteria first observed through microscope (Anton van Leeuwenhoek) | TBD |
| 1,669 AD | Fran‡ois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname/Algeria), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Louis Marchand, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Mauritius Vogt, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Miguel Lopez, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Rembrandt H van R˜n, painter/etcher (Steel Masters), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Pieter Cuypers, South Neth lawyer, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Lieuwe van Aitzema, Fries historian, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, dies at 87 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Antonio Cesti, composer, dies at 46 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazili‰), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Abraham Cr˜nssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers buried at 31 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82 | NewDay PC DB |