1659

Events
 February 16 – The first known cheque (400 pounds) is written.On display at Westminster Abbey.
 May 21 – The Kingdom of France, the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of The Hague.
 Thomas Hobbes publishes De Homine.
 Drought occurs in India.
 Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium.

 Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer

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