Timeline February 1662

Events in February 1662 3

• 1596 – 1662 Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) Died 13 February 1662, aged 65 Elizabeth Stuart was Queen of Bohemia through her brief marriage to Frederick V, which earned her the nickname the Winter Queen after their swift defeat in the Thirty Years' War. Daughter of James I of England, she spent most of her life in exile at The Hague before returning to London shortly before her death. Through her daughter Sophia she became the ancestress of the House of Hanover and the later British royal family.
• 1662 Dutch surrender Fort Zeelandia to Koxinga End of Dutch colonial rule on Taiwan After a months-long siege, the Dutch East India Company garrison at Fort Zeelandia surrendered to the forces of Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong, known as Koxinga. The surrender ended thirty-eight years of Dutch colonial presence on Taiwan. Koxinga established the Kingdom of Tungning on the island shortly before his death.
• 1662 Battle of Umberkhind Shivaji's forces ambush a Mughal-allied army Maratha forces under Shivaji ambushed and defeated a Mughal-allied army led by Kartalab Khan in the Umberkhind pass near present-day Maharashtra. The guerrilla tactics used in the narrow, forested terrain became a template for later Maratha campaigns. The victory strengthened Shivaji's standing against Mughal and Bijapuri power.