| January 14 | Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish |
| January 24 | Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris |
| February 16 | 1st known check (400 pounds) (on display at Westminster Abbey) |
| April 22 | Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament |
| May 22 | France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty |
| May 25 | Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector |
| May 31 | Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague |
| July 16 | Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II |
| September 30 | Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in U.S.) |
| September 30 | Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe) |
| October 12 | English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals |
| October 13 | General-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt |
| November 7 | Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV and Spanish king Philip IV |
| November 25 | Michiel de Ruyter conquerors Danish city Nyborg |
| December 16 | General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland |
| December 26 | Long Parliament reforms in Westminster |
