1659

Year 1659 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish.
 * - Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris.
 * - by  forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
 * - the first known (400 pounds) is written (on display at Westminster Abbey).
 * -  disbands English parliament.
 * - France, England and Netherlands sign "" treaty.
 * - Richard Cromwell resigns as English.
 * - Netherlands, England and France sign the.

July - December

 * - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II.
 * - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherland forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in what will be the U.S.).
 * - The English Rump-government fires and other generals.
 * - General-major drives out the English Rump-government.
 * - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV agree to treaty.
 * - The 24-year war between France and Spain ends with French acquisition of and most of  under the.
 * - forces with  free  city  from  conquest (earlier in the year).
 * - General demands free parliamentary election in.
 * - The reforms occur in Westminster.

Undated

 * The Spanish Infanta brings  to Paris.
 * 's portrait of Infanta Maria Theresa is first exhibited.
 * publishes De Homine.
 * ian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during.
 * in.

Science

 * writes Systema Saturnium.

Births

 * -, French Protestant pastor (died )
 * -, Scottish astronomer (died )
 * -, Japanese samurai (died
 * -, French painter (died )
 * -, French Protestant pastor (died )
 * -, Italian /designer (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, French lawyer (born )
 * February -, Dutch painter and printmaker (born )
 * -, French diplomat (born )
 * -, first President of Harvard College (born )
 * -, German poet (born )
 * -, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (born )
 * -, French Jesuit missionary and historian (born c. )
 * -, Dutch explorer (born )
 * -, English judge (born )


 * See also .

Fictional 1659

 * - is shipwrecked (according to ).
 * Book 'The witch child' was set. The papers were found in a quilt and have been modernised into a book written by Celia Rees