Deaths on July 28

Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and politician (b. 1605)

Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (6 August 1605 – 28 July 1675) was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.

4 May

Royal Greenwich Observatory
King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
11 Aug

Battle of Konzer Brücke
Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
2 Nov

King Philip's War
Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
11 Nov

Integral calculus
Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).