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1657(MDCLVII) was acommon year starting on Mondayof theGregorian calendarand acommon year starting on Thursdayof theJulian calendar,the 1657th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 657th year of the2nd millennium,the 57th year of the17th century,and the 8th year of the1650sdecade. As of the start of 1657, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
[edit]January–March
[edit]- January 8–Miles Sindercombeand his group of disaffectedLevellersare betrayed in their attempt to assassinateOliver Cromwellby blowing up thePalace of Whitehallin London and are arrested.[1]
- January 29 –Rule of the Major-Generals(regional military government) in England is abolished.[2]
- February 4–Resettlement of the Jews in England:Oliver CromwellgivesAntonio Fernandez Carvajalthe assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England.
- February 23– In England, theHumble Petition and Adviceoffers Lord ProtectorCromwellthe crown.[3]
- March 2– TheGreat Fire of MeirekiinEdo,Japan, destroys most of the city and damagesEdo Castle,killing an estimated 100,000 people.[4]
- March 23–Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60):By theTreaty of Paris,France and England form an alliance against Spain;[5]England will receiveDunkirk.
April–June
[edit]- April 20
- Anglo-Spanish War–Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife:English AdmiralRobert Blakeattempts to seize aSpanish treasure fleet.
- The Jews ofNew Amsterdam(later New York City) are grantedfreedom of religion,as full citizens.[6]
- May 8–Lord ProtectorCromwellconfirms his refusal of the crown of England, preferring the title "Lord Protector".[1]
- June 1
- KingFrederick III of Denmarksigns a manifesto,de factodeclaringwaronSweden.
- The first elevenQuakersettlers arrive inNew Amsterdam(later New York City), and are allowed to practice their faith.
July–September
[edit]- July 13– Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance toOliver Cromwell,English army leaderJohn Lambertis ordered to resign his commissions.[1]
- August 20– The shipLes Armes d'Amsterdamarrives atQuebec,New France.Among the passengers is Michel Mathieu BrunetditLestang (1638–1708), colonist, explorer and co-discoverer of modern-dayGreen Bay, Wisconsin,and ancestor of the Brunet, Lestang and Carisse families of North America.
- September 19–BrandenburgandPolandsign theTreaty of Wehlau.
- September 24– The firstautopsyandcoroner's juryverdict in theColony of Marylandare recorded.
- September–Shah Jahanbecomes ill, allowing his son to take control of theMughal Empire.
October–December
[edit]- October 1–Treaty of Raalte:William III, Prince of Orangeis no longerstadtholderofOverijssel.
- October 3– French troops occupyMardyck.
- November 6– Brandenburg and Poland sign theTreaty of Bromberg.
- November 10–Christina, former Queen regnant of Sweden,has Gian RinaldoMonaldeschikilled in her presence, at thePalace of Fontainebleau.
- December 27– TheFlushing Remonstranceis signed inNew Amsterdam,at the site of the future (1862)Flushing Town Hallin New York City.
Date unknown
[edit]- TheAccademia del Cimentois founded inFlorence,Italy.
- England's first chocolate house is opened in London[7]and introduction oftea in England[8][9]whilecoffeeis introduced to France.
- Christiaan Huygenswrites the first book to be published onprobability theory,De ratiociniis in ludo aleae( "On Reasoning in Games of Chance" ).
- Andreas Gryphius' dramaKatharina von Georgienis published inBreslau.
- Thomas Middleton's tragedyWomen Beware Women(c. 1623–24) is published posthumously in London.[5]
Births
[edit]
- January 1–Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth,illegitimate son of King Charles II of England (d.1680)
- January 4–Sébastien Rale,French missionary (d.1724)
- January 6–William Bowes,English politician (d.1707)
- January 11–Elizabeth van der Woude,Dutch writer (d.1694)
- January 17–Pieter van Bloemen,Flemishpainter(d.1720)
- January 18–Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz,Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen (d.1696)
- January 21–Francesco Cupani,Italian naturalist (d.1710)
- January 26–William Wake,Archbishop of Canterbury (d.1737)
- January 29–Francis Moore,English physician and astrologer (d.1715)[10]
- February 10–George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter,English Army general (d.1731)
- February 11–Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle,French scientist and man of letters (d.1757)
- February 21–Blaise Gisbert,French Jesuit rhetorician and critic (d.1731)
- February 24–Clopton Havers,English physician (d.1702)
- February 25–Agathe de Saint-Père,French-Canadian business entrepreneur and inventor (d.1748)
- March 1–Samuel Werenfels,Swiss theologian (d.1740)
- March 6–Auguste Magdalene of Hessen-Darmstadt,German noblewoman and poet (d.1674)
- March 18–Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni,Italian composer (d.1743)
- March 19–Jean Leclerc,Swiss theologian and biblical scholar (d.1736)
- March 20–Luigi Omodei (1607–1685),Italian Catholic cardinal (d.1706)
- March 24–Arai Hakuseki,Japanese politician and writer (d.1725)
- April 16
- Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron,English politician (d.1710)
- Otto Friedrich von der Groeben,Prussian traveller, soldier and author (d.1728)
- May 8–Martino Altomonte,Italian painter (d.1745)
- May 14–Sambhaji,Maratha ruler (d.1689)
- May 25–Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy,French Catholic priest, bishop and cardinal (d.1737)
- June 10–James Craggs the Elder,English politician (d.1721)
- June 14–Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,English politician (d.1705)
- June 17–Louis Ellies Dupin,French ecclesiastical historian (d.1719)
- July 8–Abraham de Peyster,New Amsterdam/New York politician (d.1728)
- July 11– KingFrederick I of Prussia(d.1713)
- July 12–Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg(d.1672)
- July 14–William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven,English politician (d.1728)
- July 18–Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby,English politician (d.1686)
- July 24
- Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen,Dutch classical scholar (d.1712)
- Jean Mathieu de Chazelles,French hydrographer (d.1710)
- July 25–Philipp Heinrich Erlebach,German composer (d.1714)
- August 7–Henri Basnage de Beauval,French historian and lexicographer (d.1710)
- August 9–Pierre-Étienne Monnot,French sculptor (d.1733)
- August 18
- Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena,Italianarchitectand painter (d.1743)
- Antonio Margil,Spanish Franciscan missionary in North and Central America (d.1726)
- September 14–Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet,English politician (d.1738)
- September 17
- Dudley Cullum,English politician and baronet (d.1720)
- Pieter Schuyler,acting governor of the province of New York and army colonel (d.1724)
- September 21–Sultan Muhammad Akbar,Mughal prince (d.1706)
- September 27–Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia,Russian regent (d.1704)
- September 29–Heinrich of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby,German prince (d.1728)
- October 2–Guillaume Baudry,gunsmith and gold and silversmith in Lower Canada (d.1732)
- October 4–Francesco Solimena,Italian painter (d.1747)
- October 8–Wigerus Vitringa,Dutch painter (d.1725)
- October 26–Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt,German nobleman (d.1690)
- November 6–Joseph Denis,Canadian Rėcollet priest (d.1736)
- November 12–Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg(d.1704)
- November 16–Juliane Louise of East Frisia,Princess of East Frisia (d.1715)
- November 26
- William Derham,English clergyman and natural philosopher (d.1735)
- Michael Bernhard Valentini,German naturalist (d.1729)
- November 28–Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias,heir apparent to the Spanish throne (d.1661)
- December 2–Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch(d.1702)
- December 8–Changning,prince of the Qing dynasty (d.1703)
- December 14–Edmund Dunch,English Whig politician (d.1719)
- December 15
- Michel Richard Delalande,French composer (d.1726)
- Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons,Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy (d.1702)
- December 23
- Hannah Duston,Massachusetts Puritan mother of 8, taken captive during King William's War (d.1736)
- Josiah Franklin,English-born American businessman, father of Benjamin Franklin (d.1745)
- December 28–Domenico Rossi,Swiss-Italian architect (d.1737)
Deaths
[edit]
- January 24–Claude, Duke of Chevreuse(b.1578)
- February 2–Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine,French noble (b.1608)
- February 7–Cesare Dandini,Italian painter (b.1596)
- February 8–Laura Mancini,French court beauty (b.1636)
- February 10–Sebastian Stoskopff,French painter (b.1597)
- February 19–Jean Riolan the Younger,French anatomist (b.1577)
- March–Edward Hopkins,colonial Connecticut politician (b.1600)
- March 7–Hayashi Razan,Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (b.1583)
- March 10–Barthold Nihus,Roman Catholic priest (b.1590)
- April? –Richard Lovelace,English Cavalier poet (b.1617)[11]
- April 2
- Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor(b.1608)
- Jean-Jacques Olier,French Catholic priest (b.1608)
- April 29–Sophie Elisabeth Pentz,daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (b.1619)
- May 7–Nabeshima Katsushige,Japanesedaimyō(b.1580)
- May 9–William Bradford,Governor of Plymouth Colony (b.1590)
- May 10–Gustav Horn, Count of Pori,Swedish soldier and politician (b.1592)
- May 16–Andrzej Bobola,Polish Jesuit missionary (b.1591)
- June 3–William Harvey,English physician (b.1578)[12]
- June 26–Tobias Michael,German composer and cantor (b.1592)
- July 17–Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg,Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (b.1600)
- August 6–Bohdan Khmelnytsky,Ukrainian Cossack Hetman (b. c.1595)
- August 14–Giovanni Paolo Lascaris,Italian 57th Grandmaster of theKnights Hospitaller(b.1560)
- August 19–Frans Snyders,Flemish painter (b.1579)
- August 7–Robert Blake,British admiral (b.1599)
- August 29–John Lilburne,English dissenter (b. c.1614)
- September 1–Arnold Vinnius,Dutch lawyer (b.1588)
- September 7–Arvid Wittenberg,Swedish field marshal and statesman (b.1606)
- September 13–Jacob van Campen,Dutch artist (b.1596)
- September 23–Joachim Jungius,German mathematician and philosopher (b.1587)
- September 27–Olimpia Maidalchini,politically active Roman noble (b.1591)
- October 4–Prince Maurice of Savoy,Catholic cardinal and Prince of Savoy (b.1593)
- October 23–Domenico Massenzio,Italian baroque composer (b.1586)
- November 5–Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf,French noble (b.1596)
- November 10–Anders Bille,Danish general (b.1600)
- November 18–Luke Wadding,Irish Franciscan friar and historian (b.1588)
- November 20–Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet,English politician (b.1600)
- December 5–Johan Oxenstierna,Swedish count and statesman (b.1611)
- December 24–Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville,French poet (b.1607)
- date unknown–Willem Bontekoe,Dutch sea captain (b.1587)
References
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- ^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History.London: Century Ltd. pp. 187–188.ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
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- ^Blusse, Leonard; Vaillé, Cynthia (2005).The Deshima Dagregisters, Volume XII 1650-1660.Leiden.
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- ^Urofsky, Melvin I. (2022)."American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust".The SHAFR Guide Online.Brill.doi:10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim110060068.
- ^"Chocolate Arrives in England".Cadbury.Archived fromthe originalon February 2, 2012.RetrievedFebruary 17,2012.
- ^Ukers, William H. (1935).All About Tea.Vol. I. New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal. p. 38.
- ^Mair, Victor H.; Hoh, Erling (2009).The True History of Tea.London; New York: Thames & Hudson. p. 169.ISBN978-0-500-25146-1.
- ^Shipley, John (March 2, 2015).The Little Book of Shropshire.History Press. p. 108.ISBN978-0-7509-6342-8.
- ^Anselment, Raymond (2004)."Lovelace, Richard (1617–1657)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(Online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17056.RetrievedJuly 30,2021.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
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