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Events

March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
August 1 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
September 24 - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.

Births

January 4 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
January 20 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
February 6 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
February 24 (baptized) - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (d. 1729)
April 6 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
April 30 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
May 21 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1754)
July 21 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
November 9 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)

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Deaths

May 21 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan/"foundress"/business woman
July 16 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
August 24 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
August 27 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)

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