in Scotland and resolves to overthrow the military government that has ruled the British Isles since 1648. December 26 – The Long Parliament reforms occur in Westminster. Date unknown First British colonists arrive on Saint Helena. Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris. Diego Velázquez's portrait of Infanta Maria Theresa is first exhibited. Thomas Hobbes publishes De Homine. Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent. Drought occurs in India. Peter Swink, the first known non-white settler to own land in Massachusetts, and first known African to live in Springfield, Massachusetts, arrives. He holds a seat in the town meetings. Births January 1 – Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss, Scottish noble (d. 1705) January 4 – James Pierpont, Connecticut Congregationalist minister, a founder of Yale University (d. 1714) January 11 – Ambrose Browne, English politician (d. 1688) January 13 – Johann Arnold Nering, German architect (d. 1695) January 17 Takatsukasa Kanehiro, Japanese court noble of the Edo period (d. 1725) Antonio Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1745) January 18 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher (d. 1708) January 21 – Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter (d. 1722) January 28 – Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1709) February 1 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Pacific Ocean explorer (d. 1729) February 14 – Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (d. 1732) February 27 – William Sherard, English botanist (d. 1728) March 4 – Pierre Lepautre (1659–1744), French sculptor (d. 1744) March 6 – Salomon Franck, German lawyer, scientist and poet (d. 1725) March 8 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738) March 25 – John Asgill, Irish politician (d. 1738) March 26 – William Wollaston, English philosopher (d. 1724) April 8 – Christopher Tancred, English politician (d. 1705) April 14 Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, German prince (d. 1692) William Delaune, English academic administrator and clergyman (d. 1728) April 15 – Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Swedish general (d. 1719) April 16 – Jacques le Moyne de Sainte-Hélène, Canadian soldier (d. 1690) April 29 Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer (d. 1730) Date Tsunamura, Japanese daimyō at the center of the Date Sōdō (d. 1719) May 4 – John Dunton, English bookseller and author (d. 1733) June 3 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1708) June 5 – Wolfgang George Frederick von Pfalz-Neuburg, German bishop (d. 1683) June 7 –