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1665

London has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague, possibly introduced by Dutch prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die.

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1664

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.

Hungary

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1663

March 24 - King Charles II of England issues the Charter of Carolina, establishing the Province of Carolina and dividing it between eight Lords Proprietors

England

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1662

February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege, ending a 38 year span of Dutch rule.

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1661

George Monck’s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards (which later becomes Coldstream Guards)

England

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1660

January 1 - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. Samuel Pepys began his diary.

England

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1657

January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London. (If they just would have waited a year, it wouldn't have mattered.)

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1664

March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England.

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(You used 1664 instead of 1654)

1654

June 3 - Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims

France

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1653

New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.