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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 6]] &ndash; The [[Fifth Monarchists]], led by [[Thomas Venner]], unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London; [[George Monck]]'s [[Coldstream Guards|regiment]] defeats them.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; The [[Rokeby baronets]], a [[British nobility]] title is created.<ref>{{cite web |title= Leigh Rayment's list of baronets |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021184256/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm |archive-date=21 October 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] &ndash; The body of [[Oliver Cromwell]] is exhumed and subjected to a [[posthumous execution]] in London, along with those of [[John Bradshaw (judge)|John Bradshaw]] and [[Henry Ireton]].
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The [[Shunzhi Emperor]] of the Chinese [[Qing Dynasty]] dies, and is succeeded by his 7-year-old son the [[Kangxi Emperor]].
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Shah Shuja (Mughal prince)|Shah Shuja]], who was deprived of his claim to the throne of the Mughal Empire by his younger brother [[Aurangzeb]], then fled to Burma, is killed by Indian troops in an attack on his residence at [[Arakan]].<ref>D. G. E. Hall, ''History of South East Asia'' (The Macmillan Press, 1955) p. 422</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[George Monck]]’s regiment becomes ''The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards'' in England (which later becomes the [[Coldstream Guards]]).
* [[March 9]] &ndash; Following the death of his mentor, [[Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Jules Mazarin]], who had been Minister of State since before the birth of King [[Louis XIV of France]], King Louis, now 22, starts to rule independently without need for a regent.
* [[March 23]] &ndash; General [[Koxinga|Zheng Chenggong]] of China, known as "Koxinga" leads an invasion of the island of [[Taiwan]], at the time under the control of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC), bringing 25,000 soldiers and sailors on hundreds of boats to claim the territory.