February 16 Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker March 25 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite) April 4 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates April 7 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII April 26 Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam April 28 English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet May 10 Jamaica captured by English June 13 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater July 27 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery July 27 Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty July 29 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam July 30 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram August 9 Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts August 28 New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service August 29 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw September 8 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw September 26 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir from Swedish in Delaware October 9 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow October 15 Jews of Lublin are massacred October 19 Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow November 3 England and France sign miltary and economic treaties November 24 English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans December 4 Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue
