Timeline August 1659

Events in August 1659 3

• 1615 – 1659 Dara Shikoh (1615-1659) Died 30 August 1659, aged 44 Dara Shikoh, eldest son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and heir apparent, was executed on the orders of his brother Aurangzeb after losing the war of succession. A noted scholar, he had translated the Upanishads into Persian and promoted dialogue between Islamic and Hindu thought.
• 1659 Koxinga's siege of Nanjing fails Ming loyalist assault on the Qing stalls Ming loyalist commander Zheng Chenggong, known as Koxinga, led a large naval and land expedition up the Yangtze and besieged the Qing-held city of Nanjing in 1659. The siege collapsed after a Qing counterattack, forcing Koxinga's forces to retreat and effectively ending large-scale Ming loyalist resistance on the mainland.
• 1659 Booth's Uprising crushed at Winnington Bridge Last royalist rising before the Restoration fails Sir George Booth's royalist rebellion in Cheshire was defeated by Parliamentary forces under John Lambert at the Battle of Winnington Bridge on 19 August 1659. The rising's failure temporarily strengthened the army's hold over England just months before the monarchy was restored.