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Historical Event(s)
– The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
– The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
– Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
– Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
– Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
Who Were Born On ?
– Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687)
– Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)
– William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
– Queen Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
– John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
– Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopedist (d. 1718)
– Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
– Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
– John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
– King William III of England (d. 1702)