1654

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years:	1651 1652 1653 - 1654 - 1655 1656 1657

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Year 1654 (MDCLIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1654

April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
June 3 - Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims
June 6 - Charles X succeeds his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.

July 10 - Peter Vowell and John Gerard executed for plotting to assassinate Oliver Cromwell
September 3 - In the Rump Parliament, the republican party questions Cromwell's pre-eminence
September 12 - Oliver Cromwell orders the exclusion of the members of Parliament who are hostile to him.
October 12 - Carel Fabritius, the most promising student of Rembrandt, dies aged 32 in an explosion at the arsenal at Delft. The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100.
October 31 - Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria is crowned. His absolutistic style of leadership becomes a benchmark for the rest of Germany
November 23 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.

Death of An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn, last inaugurated King of Connacht (inaugurated 1643.
Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what would be the largest urban Jewish community in history, the Jewish community of New York City.

Taj Mahal completed.

The Russian Army seizes Smolensk, and Thirteen Years War starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine.
Otto von Guericke proves the existence of atmospheric pressure.
The Taj Mahal's construction is finished: it was started in 1631 and finished in 1653.
The Magdeburg hemispheres are noted.