1659 - A Year to Remember

• Richard Cromwell resigns his position of Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the monarchy was restored.
• The Netherlands, England and France sign the Treaty of The Hague.
• Central England Temperature records began (the longest instrumental temperature record in the world)
• Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe).
• The composer Henry Purcell was born in Westminster, London.
• Sir Isaac Newton was still at school.
• Six years before the bubonic plague swept through London.
• Seven years before the Great Fire of London.