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 )

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

* December 27 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter ( b. 1659 )

* Hyacinthe Rigaud ( 1659 – 1743 ), who painted the definitive portraits of Louis XIV

* December 27 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter of Catalan origin ( born 1659 )

* Hyacinthe Rigaud ( 1659 – 1743 ), French baroque portrait painter during the reign of Louis XIV

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 )

The Dutch settlers occupied the island for nearly half a century, but were dislodged several times: in 1629 by the Portuguese, in 1645 and 1659 by the French and in 1663 by the British troops.

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

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

* June 5 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor ( b. 1659 )

* November 10 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler ( b. 1659 )

The annexation was acknowledged during the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, and it became a French province.

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

* June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War ( 1654 – 1660 ) and Franco-Spanish War ( 1635 – 1659 ): Battle of the Dunes: A Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English.

* July 5 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor ( b. 1659 )

Portugal had been helped by France, but in the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 Portugal was abandoned by its French ally.

French control over the area was gradually established-Artois was annexed in 1659, and most of the current Nord department had been acquired by the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.

In 1659, Saint-Louis secured the whole of Senegal as French territory until the end of the 19th century.

" Province of Roussillon and adjacent lands of Cerdagne " was indeed the name that was officially used after the area became French in 1659, based on the historical division of the five pays between the county of Roussillon ( Roussillon and Vallespir ) and the county of Cerdagne ( Cerdagne, Capcir, and Conflent ).

Cerdanya proper was split between Spain and France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659, with the north of Cerdanya becoming French, while the south of Cerdanya remained Spanish.

In 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees ceded the comarques of Roussillon, Conflent, Capcir, Vallespir, and northern Cerdanya (" Cerdagne ") to the French crown.

The French explorers Radisson and des Groseilliers had come to England after conducting a joint exploration of the Hudson Bay region in 1659 ; there their account attracted the attention of the King and Rupert.