1659

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1656 1657 1658 – 1659 – 1660 1661 1662

1659 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1659 MDCLIX
Ab urbe condita	2412
Armenian calendar	1108 ԹՎ ՌՃԸ
Assyrian calendar	6409
Balinese saka calendar	1580–1581
Bengali calendar	1066
Berber calendar	2609
English Regnal year	10 Cha. 2 – 11 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2203
Burmese calendar	1021
Byzantine calendar	7167–7168
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4355 or 4295     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4356 or 4296
Coptic calendar	1375–1376
Discordian calendar	2825
Ethiopian calendar	1651–1652
Hebrew calendar	5419–5420
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1715–1716
- Shaka Samvat	1580–1581
- Kali Yuga	4759–4760
Holocene calendar	11659
Igbo calendar	659–660
Iranian calendar	1037–1038
Islamic calendar	1069–1070
Japanese calendar	Manji 2 (万治２年)
Javanese calendar	1581–1582
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3992
Minguo calendar	253 before ROC 民前253年
Nanakshahi calendar	191
Thai solar calendar	2201–2202
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1785 or 1404 or 632     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1786 or 1405 or 633

1659 (MDCLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1659th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 659th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1659, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• February 16 – The first known cheque (400 pounds) is written.
• 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.

Births

for more information, see Category:1659 births.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1659 deaths.

• Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer