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* 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer ( d. 1708 )
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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.
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 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
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In November 1659 the burgomaster of Amsterdam contracted with Flinck for 12 canvases to represent four heroic figures of David and Samson and Manius Curius Dentatus and Horatius Cocles, and scenes from the Batavians and Romans.
Captain John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake had five children: Deborah ( 1659 – 1697 ), Nathaniel ( 1663 – 1697 ), Hannah ( 1666 – 1757 ), Elizabeth ( 1669 – 1704 ), and David ( 1672 – 1708 ).
David Gregory ( originally spelt Gregorie ) FRS ( 3 June 1659 – 10 October 1708 ) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
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The term Court of the Exchequer was only used of the Exchequer department during the Scottish administration of Oliver Cromwell, between 1655 and 1659.
After the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659 the Scottish and Irish members disappeared from Westminster until the unions of 1707 and 1801 respectively.
Later, he was one of the Scottish shire commissioners selected to negotiate with Monck in 1659 about the restoration of King Charles and lived to see the restoration of the king.
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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 ...
* 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ( 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 ).
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