Events
- July 14 - During the siege of Colchester, the cannon, Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, possibly inspiring the nursery rhyme.
- October - Richard Lovelace, Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.
- René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.
- Robert Boyle writes Seraphic Love, his first important work, which will not be published until 1660.
- Ill-health forces Pierre Gassendi to give up lecturing at the Collège Royal.
- Richard Flecknoe travels to Brazil.
- Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, but Obadiah Walker loses his academic post.
- Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
- King Charles I, imprisoned in Windsor Castle, reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
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