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Historical Event(s)
– Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
– Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
– Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
– Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
– Battle of the Sound.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
– Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
– Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
– Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
– Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
– Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
– Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)