Abel Janszoon Tasman (; 1603 – 1659 )

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

# Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia ( 31 December 1586 – 22 February 1659 ).

Charles Ancillon ( 28 July 1659 – 5 July 1715 ) was a French jurist and diplomat.

Between 1653 – 1659 it was known as the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1659 – 1661 to 24 April 1731 ),

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Commonwealth was briefly revived ( 1659 – 60 ), before the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Charles II in May 1660.

* 1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.

* Ronan, Gerard The Irish Zorro: the Extraordinary Adventures of William Lamport ( 1615 – 1659 )

* 1729 – Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer ( b. 1659 )

* 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor ( b. 1659 )

* 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.

* 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer ( d. 1708 )

* 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer ( b. 1580 )

* 1659 – Charles Ancillon, French pastor ( d. 1715 )

* 1659 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter ( d. 1743 )

* Anne Sophia of Brandenburg ( 15 March 1598 – 19 December 1659 ).

* October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer ( born 1659 )

* May 13-Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, singer, composer and librettist ( born 1659 )

Antonio Fernandez Carvajal ( c. 1590 – November 10, 1659 )— in — was a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first endenizened English Jew.

* Antonio Barberini ( 1659 – 1671 )

* January 20 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect / designer ( b. 1659 )

1659 – 1727 ), an Italian officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac

Valerio Castello ( 1624 – October 1659 ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

* 1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer ( d. 1695 )

* November 21 – Henry Purcell, English composer whose works include the opera Dido and Aeneas ( b. 1659 )

This extraordinary feature, which is completely unique for the period, allows tracing Couperin's development as organ composer from 1650 to 1659, sometimes almost day by day.

A dated poem in praise of his music shows that he began to distinguish himself as a composer in 1659.

The French traveller Laurent d ' Arvieux described the city in 1659 as " now desolate, and consists only of about fifty poor houses, in bad condition ...

* 1659 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor ( d. 1738 )

* 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ( d. 1659 )

* 1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer ( d. 1659 )

** Thomas Morton, English churchman ( d. 1659 )

** Richard Johnson, English romance writer ( d. 1659 )

* October 10 – Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch seafarer and explorer ( d. 1659 )

* November 1 – Abel Servien, French diplomat ( d. 1659 )

** John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide ( d. 1659 )

* July 29 – Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns ( d. 1659 )

* November 26 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College ( d. 1659 )

** King Hyojong of Joseon ( d. 1659 )

* April – Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker ( d. 1659 )

* September 15 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer ( d. 1659 )

Anne was daughter of Sir Thomas Cheeke of Pirgo and a senior Essex Rich ( d. 1659 ).

Frederick III, duke from 1616 to 1659, established the principle of primogeniture for his line, and the full sovereignty of his Schleswig dominions was secured to him by his son-in-law Charles X of Sweden by the convention of Copenhagen ( May 12, 1658 ) and to his son Christian Albert ( d. 1694 ) by the Treaty of Oliva, though it was not till after years of warfare that Denmark admitted the claim by the convention of Altona ( June 30, 1689 ).

* William Morgan ( of Machen and Tredegar ) ( d. 1680 ), Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire 1659 – 1680

The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont ( d. 1659 ), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament ; and another was William Pierrepont ( 1608 – 1679 ), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Born in Basel, von Browne was the son of Count Ulysses von Browne ( b. Limerick, Ireland ; 1659 d. Frankfurt am Main 1731 ) by his wife Annabella Fitzgerald, a daughter of the House of Desmond.

He attained some measure of success as a barrister, and about 1626 became the confidential adviser of Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards earl of Strafford, who was related to his wife, Anne Trappes ( d. 1659 ).