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Historical Event(s)
– Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
– Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
– Thirty Years’ War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
– English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
– English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
– Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
– John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)
– Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
– Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680)
– King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
– Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
– Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712)
– John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
– Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
– René-Robert Cavelier de LaSalle French explorer (d. 1687)