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Historical Event(s)
– Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
– Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
– Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
– Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
Who Were Born On ?
– René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)
– Marin Marais, French composer (d. 1728)
– Guru Har Krishan, Indian religious figure (d. 1664)
– Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
– Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
– Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
– Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
– Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)