| January 8 | Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) |
| January 17 | Brandenburg and Sweden sign Treaty of Konigsberg |
| January 24 | 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland |
| February 22 | New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site |
| March 13 | Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam |
| April 10 | Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon |
| June 20 | Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw |
| July 1 | 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested) |
| July 18 | Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw |
| July 26 | Rembrandt declares he is insolvent |
| September 15 | England and France sign peace treaty |
| September 19 | Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg |
| September 22 | All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) |
| October 2 | U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers |
| October 24 | Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant |
| November 3 | Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant |
| December 1 | Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden |
| December 14 | Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales |
