In London, over the summer months, about 70,000 people die from the plague. In September, a fire starts in a bakery and goes on to destroy much of the city, including St. Paul's Cathedral.

Newark, New Jersey is settled by a group of Connecticut Puritans.

The Bible is printed in Armenian.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz publishes a work on combinatorial mathematics, providing a theoretical model that is still used in computer science to this day.

Isaac Newton uses his new differential and integral calculus to calculate the orbit of the moon.

John Bunyan publishes his autobiographical account of his spiritual journey, called "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners".

Moliere writes two of his famous comedies, "The Doctor Despite Himself" and "The Misanthrope".