Following a big fire in 1659, which almost completely destroyed the town, only stone buildings were allowed to be built in the central part of the town.

On 26 May 1659 a huge fire destroyed 60 % of the city.

Willenhall suffered its very own great fire in 1659, when most of the town centre was devastated.

Many of the town's ancient buildings were destroyed in the serious fires that took place in 1581 and 1659. Notable buildings that survived the fire include the Church of Saint Nicholas ' and the nearby Bishop Bonner's cottage.

In 1588 and 1659, the town was devastated with plague.

In 1659, he sent parliament his most politically radical pamphlet, Fifty nine Particulars laid down for the Regulating things, but the year was so chaotic that it never considered them ; the document was not reprinted until the 21st century.

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, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

The Red Velvet Room once contained the largest and most expensive paintings in Lord Burlington's collection, including paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ), Giacomo Cavedone ( 1577 – 1660 ), Peter Paul Rubens ( 1573 – 1640 ), Rembrandt van Ryn ( 1606 – 69 ), Salvator Rosa ( 1615 – 1673 ), Pier Francesco Mola ( 1612 – 1666 ), Jacopo Ligozzi ( c. 1547 – 1632 ), Jean Lemaire ( 1598 – 1659 ), Francisque Millet ( 1642 – 79 ) and Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ).

In 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees stopped the Thirty Years ’ War and most frontier cities became French, until Napoleon ’ s defeat at Waterloo and the Treaty of Paris ( 1815 ).

In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector ( London, 1659 ), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.

He was elected MP for Leicester for the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659 and became one of the most influential men in both the Council of State and Parliament.

His other most famous work was the epic of Alaric ( 1659 ).

His most important original works are: Les Vies des poètes Grecs ( 1665 ); Méthode pour commencer les humanités Grecques et latines ( 2nd ed., 1731 ), of which several English adaptations have appeared ; and Epistolae Criticae ( 1659 ).

Amongst all Catalonian bishoprics, the Diocese of Urgell has been that which has experienced the most border-related changes throughout its existence, mainly for political reasons: the loss of Ribagorça ( 9th century ), to the benefit of the Diocese of Roda, and the cession of 144 parishes of the Berguedà, the Solsonès and a part of the Segarra, to the benefit of the new diocese of Solsona ( 1593-1623 ); later, it was necessary to adapt the territory to the borders between states, and thus in 1803, the 24 parishes of French Cerdagne, which had been ceded to France from the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, also passed ecclesiastically to that country ; and in 1804, the 28 from the Aran Valley, a territory circumscribed by France yet united fully to the Catalan-Aragonese territories at least since the 12th century, were annexed to the diocese of Urgell, coming from the eliminated Gascon diocese of Sant Bertran de Comenge.

In 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees was concluded, which ceded most of the Artois to France, except Saint-Omer and Aire-sur-la-Lys.

Howell's Proverbs ( 1659 ), contains probably his most famous quote ; All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

On 14 April 1659 she married Roger Palmer ( later 1st Earl of Castlemaine ) against his family's wishes ; his father predicted that she would make him one of the most miserable men in the world.

On 14 April 1659 he married Barbara Villiers against his family's wishes ; his father predicting at the time of the wedding that she would make him one of the most miserable men in the world.

His public career closes with addresses delivered in his capacity as chief commissioner of the great seal at the beginning of the sessions of 20 January 1658, and 2 January 1659, in which the religious basis of Cromwell's government is especially insisted upon, the feature to which Fiennes throughout his career had attached most value.

He suppressed the revolts some of the Anatolian governors of provinces, most notably the revolt of Abaza Hasan Pasha, the ruler of Aleppo and of Ahmed Pasha, Kenan Pasha, Ali Mirza Pasha, Ferhad Pasha, Mustafa Pasha in 1658 – 1659.

In 1659, they were defeated by the Iroquois and most migrated southwest for safety, where they settled with Odawa and Illinois tribes.

Hallgrímur Pétursson's most notable work is Passion Hymns ( Passíusálmar or, in full, " Historia pínunnar og dauðans Drottins vors Jesú Kristí, með hennar sérlegustu lærdóms -, áminningar-og huggunargreinum, ásamt bænum og þakkargjörðum, í sálmum og söngvísum með ýmsum tónum samsett og skrifuð anno 1659 ": " The history of the pain and death of our Lord, Jesus Christ, with its special learning, reminding, and consoling articles, with prayers and praises, in psalms and songs with misc.

Translations into English, either in whole or in part, were made by John Vicars in Epigrams of that most wittie and worthie epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen, Gentleman ( 1619 ); by Thomas Pecke, in his Parnassi Puerperium ( 1659 ); and by Thomas Harvey in The Latine epigrams of John Owen ( 1677 ), which is the most complete.

The manuscript ' B ' ( ms. ' B 55 ', B for Bombay ) that is the basis for most surviving copies and translations is dated 1659 and which its editor reconstructed from a partially destroyed work.

In spite of his near relationship to the Protectors family, he was one of the most violent opponents of the assumption by Cromwell of the royal title, and after the Protector's death, instead of supporting the interests and government of his nephew Richard Cromwell, he was, with Charles Fleetwood, the chief instigator and organizer of the hostility of the army towards his administration, and forced Richard Cromwell by threats and menaces to dissolve his Third Protectorate Parliament in April 1659.

In 1659 Bolland received assistance from a third Jesuit, Daniel van Papenbroek, who in the end did most of the work for the 18 volumes of the Acta Sanctorum.

The English established their main coastal town at Port Royal and by 1659, two hundred houses, shops, and warehouses surrounded the fort.

The Treaty of the Pyrenees ( 1659 ) restored the town to Spain.

The town of Southbury was one of several towns formed out of a parcel of land purchased from the Paugussett Indians in 1659.

Wallingford School is the secondary school in the area, to the north of the town, which is the successor to Wallingford Grammar School, founded 1659.

Fairhaven was first settled in 1659 as " Cushnea ", the easternmost part of the town of Dartmouth.

The town once included the city of Fall River ( 1659 – 1803 ), and a portion of Acushnet ( 1659 – 1815 ).

During the colonial era, the town was the site of an important ferry crossing between the region's towns at Bergen and Hackensack, which was operated by rope on the site starting in 1659, continuing until 1826 when it was replaced by a bridge on the Bergen Turnpike.

The town was first settled around 1659.

In 1659 and 1678, Brandenburg troops bombarded the town.

Nine women were burned to death for witchcraft in the town in 1659, and two centuries later in 1868, Dumfries was the site of Scotland's last public hanging.

The town was captured and recaptured several times by the French and Spanish between 1639 and 1658, and finally annexed to France in the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659.

For example, the current Peddimore Hall was constructed in 1659 by William Wood to a design by William Wilson, who took up residence in the town and married the widowed landowner, Jane Pudsey, in 1681.

Negotiations had begun in Toruń ( Thorn ) in autumn of 1659 ; the Polish delegation later moved to Danzig while the Swedish delegation made the Baltic town of Sopot ( Zoppot ) its base.

In 1659 the town was burned by the Swedish troops, and in 1795, following the Partitions of Poland, Mława became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Founded by the town of Boston in 1659, Copp's Hill Burying Ground is the second oldest burying ground in the city.

In 1656, he was appointed Governor of Riga in 1656, where he successfully defended the town against Tsar Alexej and his army of 90, 000 men, and then Governor-General of Ingria in 1659.

The castle, town, lands and friary of Roscrea were granted to Sir Francis Peisley in 1659 for 21 years.

He body was balmed on orders of Charles X of Sweden and displayed as a war trophy in the town hall of Elsinore by the Swedes, who January 1659 delivered his body to the Danish court in Copenhagen ; after the Danes had paid their homage, it was transported to the Netherlands and buried with great pomp in Rotterdam on 7 October, in the church of St Lawrence, where the marble grave memorial, restored after being damaged by the German bombardment of 14 May 1940, can still be seen.

Beyond the acquisitions made by King Louis XIV according to the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees and the 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, France not only gained the Imperial County of Burgundy ( Franch-Comté ), but also further territories of the Spanish Netherlands, including the town of Saint-Omer with the remaining northwestern part of the former Imperial County of Artois, the lands of Cassel, Aire and Ypres in southwestern Flanders, the Bishopric of Cambrai, as well as the towns of Valenciennes and Maubeuge in the southern County of Hainault.

A decade later, the town was officially surrendered to France by the 1659 Treaty of Pyrenees.