Peter Stuyvesant, attacks the New Sweden (Delaware) colony. September 8 – Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies Warsaw (Poland). September 26 – Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir, and defeats the New Sweden (Delaware) colony. October –December October 15 – The Jews of Lublin are massacred. October 19 – Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies Kraków (Poland). November 3 – England and France sign military and economic treaties. November 24 – English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell announces measures against the Laudian party, which was enforced starting on January 1. December 4 – Middelburg, the Netherlands forbids the building of a synagogue. December 18 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290. December 27 – Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege. Date unknown Stephan Farffler, a 22-year-old paraplegic watchmaker, built the world's first self-propelling chair on a three-wheel chassis using a system of cranks and cogwheels. However, the device had an appearance of a hand bike more than a wheelchair since the design included hand cranks mounted at the front wheel. The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands, of a building designed as a library. A plague outbreak kills 20 people in Malta. Frederick III of Denmark gives control of the Faroe Islands to Christoffer Gabel and his son, which would last until 1709. Births January 1 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728) January 5 – John Coney (silversmith), early American silversmith/goldsmith (d. 1722) January 6 Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli, Italian jurist of religious law and historian (d. 1740) Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720) January 11 Charles Sergison, English politician (d. 1732) Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, England (d. 1701) January 13 – Bernard de Montfaucon, French Benedictine monk (d. 1741) January 19 – Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet (d. 1685) January 21 – Antonio Molinari, Italian painter (d. 1704) January 25 – Cornelius Anckarstjerna, Dutch-born Swedish admiral (d. 1714) January 27 – Henri de Nesmond, French churchman (d. 1727) February 2 – William "Tangier" Smith, Moroccan mayor (d. 1705) February 7 – Jean-François Regnard, French comic poet (d. 1709) February 14 – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, French churchman (d. 1707) February 15 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig, German prince (d.