Deaths on November 6

Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)

Died on November 6, 1656

Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (b. 1583)

Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583 – November 6, 1656), also known by the Latinized name as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer.

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Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)

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Events on 1656

23 Jan

Lettres provinciales
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
30 Jul

Battle of Warsaw (1656)
Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
14 Oct

Puritanism
Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

Deaths on November 6

Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)

Died on November 6, 1656

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Events on 1656

Lettres provinciales

Battle of Warsaw (1656)

Puritanism