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 – Antonio Veracini, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1745 )

* 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 ).

Henry Purcell (; 10 September 1659 (?

Henry Purcell's family lived just a few hundred yards west of Westminster Abbey from the year 1659 onward.

Starting on December 17, 1659, Henry Vane representing the Parliament, Major Saloway and Col. Salmon with powers from the officers of the army to treat with the fleet, and Vice-Admiral Lawson met in negotiating a compromise.

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

* Sir Henry Vaughan the Elder of Derwydd, Wales ( 1587 ?– 1659?

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

His son Henry succeeded to the title of " Printer to the King " in 1649, and his work closed about 1659.

Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) whose operas were written to English libretti

Berkeley married Christian or Christiana Riccard, daughter of Sir Andrew Riccard, a wealthy London merchant, in the East India Company ; she had already been married first to Sir John Geare, and subsequently ( 14 February 1659 ) to Henry Rich, Lord Kensington, son of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick.

Henry Oldenburg wanted to copy it, for transmission to John Milton and possibly John Dury, or for some other connection in 1659.

** Henry Rich, Lord Kensington ( 1642 – 1659 )

Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted 1600, printed 1659 ), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI.

* Henry Martini, Anatomia Urinae Galeno-Spagyrica, Frankfurt 1659

Henry Dunster ( November 26, 1609 ( baptized ) – February 27, 1658 / 1659 ) was an Anglo-American Puritan clergyman and the first president of Harvard College.

** Henry Rich, Lord Kensington ( 1642 – 1659 )

The 1659 volume, published by Andrew Crooke and Henry Brome ( again, no relation ), contains The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine.

Henry Dunster ( 1609 – 1659 ), first president of Harvard College, a native of Bury, was the third Headmaster of the school prior to his emigration to Massachusetts in 1640.

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.

Henry ( 1604-April 1659 ), died unmarried.

* Henry of Savoy ( 1625 – 1659 )

** Henry Percy, Baron Percy of Alnwick ( d. 1659 ), royalist in the English Civil War

He succeeded his father-in-law Henry Whitfeld or Whitfield ( 1597-1687 ) as minister at Guilford, Connecticut, and served as pastor of Salem from 1659.