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Claude de Forbin
1656Aug, 6

Claude de Forbin

Claude de Forbin, French general (d. 1733)
Claude, chevalier, then count de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733) was a French naval commander. In 1685–1688 he was on a diplomatic mission to Siam. He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a coup d'état.

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    Lettres provinciales

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

    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.
  • 14Oct

    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.