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  • Siege of Raglan Castle during the English Civil War
  • The Long Parliament outlaws the 1559 version of the Book of Common Prayer
  • Beginning of the Maunder Minimum, a time period when sunspots became exceedingly rare
  • Founding of the Stolberg-Wernigerode branch of the family of counts of Stolberg and Wernigerode in Germany
  • Wallpaper begins to replace tapestries as a wall decoration
  • Mechanical calculating machine invented by Blaise Pascal.