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Incumbents

1 May - The future King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters.
26 May - Oliver Cromwell leaves Ireland (following the Siege of Clonmel), occasioning Andrew Marvell's An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland.
23 June - Charles arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth) where he signs the Covenant.^[1]
3 September - Oliver Cromwell is victorious over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar.^[1]
30 October - The Religious Society of Friends acquires the nickname "Quakers" when the judge at George Fox's blasphemy trial says that they "tremble at the word of the Lord".^[2]

With the Treaty of Hartford, the Dutch and English establish the frontiers between their colonies in North America.^[3]
Cornelius Vermuyden completes excavation of the New Bedford River as part of the drainage of The Fens.
William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica.

2 February - Nell Gwynne, actress and royal mistress (died 1687)
24 March - Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, bishop (died 1721)
18 April - Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1689)
20 April - William Bedloe, informer (died 1680)
26 May - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (died 1722)
14 September - Theophilus Oglethorpe, soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1702)
23 September - Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726)
20 October - Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, courtier (died 1717)
7 November - John Robinson, diplomat (died 1723)
November - Cloudesley Shovell, admiral (died 1707)
14 November - King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)
1 December (bapt.) - William Talman, architect (died 1719)
Solomon de Medina, army contractor (died 1720)
George Rooke, admiral (died 1709)
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, statesman (died 1721)

1 2 "1650, British Civil Wars". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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