March 1 » Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
April 15 » Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
May 17 » Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
September 23 » The first commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
November 13 » First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
November 24 » Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
May 24 » The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
June 23 » William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
July 16 » Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
September 12 » Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
September 17 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules".
October 6 » Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
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