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Historical Event(s)
– King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England’s slide into civil war.
– Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
– From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
– Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
– First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
– Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
– First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
– Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
– Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
– Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
– Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
– Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
– Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
– Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
– Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician (d. 1727)
– Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)