1657
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s |
| Years: | 1654 1655 1656 - 1657 - 1658 1659 1660 |
| 1657 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1657 AD (MDCLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday [1] of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1657
[edit] January - June
- January - The Meireki no Taika (great fire) in Edo, Japan destroys most of the city and damages Edo castle, killing an estimated 100,000 people.
- January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London.
- February 4 - Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal.
- February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica.
- March 23 - France and England form an alliance against Spain; England receives Dunkirk.
- March 31 - The English Humble Petition and Advice offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown.
- April 3 - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses the crown, preferring the title "Lord Protector".
- April 20 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- April 20 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) are granted freedom of religion as full citizens.[2]
- June 1 - The first Quaker settlers arrive in New Amsterdam (later New York).
[edit] July - December
- July 13 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert.
- August - In New Amsterdam, 11 Quakers arrive and are allowed to practice their religion.
- August 20 - The ship Les Armes d'Amsterdam arrives at Quebec, New France. Among the passengers is Michel Mathieu Brunet dit Lestang (1638-1708), colonist, explorer and co-discoverer of what is today Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- September 19 - Brandenburg and Poland sign the Treaty of Wehlau.
- September 24 - the first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in the colony of Maryland.
- September - Shah Jahan becomes ill, allowing his son to take control.
- October 1 - Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
- October 3 - French troops occupy Mardyke.
- November 6 - Brandenburg and Poland sign the Unity of Bromberg.
- December 27 - Flushing Remonstrance signed in New Amsterdam at the site of the future Flushing Town Hall (built 1862) in New York.
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[edit] Undated
- Accademia del Cimento founded in Florence, Italy - first equivalent to a scientific research center.
- England's first chocolate shop is opened.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1657 MDCLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2410 |
| Armenian calendar | 1106 ԹՎ ՌՃԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -187 – -186 |
| Berber calendar | 2607 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2201 |
| Burmese calendar | 1019 |
| Chinese calendar | 4293/4353-11-17 (丙申年十一月十七日) — to —
4294/4354-11-27(丁酉年十一月廿七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1373 – 1374 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1649 – 1650 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5417 – 5418 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1712 – 1713 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1579 – 1580 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4758 – 4759 |
| Holocene calendar | 11657 |
| Iranian calendar | 1035 – 1036 |
| Islamic calendar | 1067 – 1068 |
| Japanese calendar | Meireki 3 (明暦3年) |
| Korean calendar | 3990 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2200 |
- February 11 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (died 1757)
- March 1 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (died 1740)
- March 18 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (died 1743)
- March 24 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese politician and writer (died 1725)
- June 10 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (died 1721)
- July 11 - King Frederick I of Prussia (died 1713)
- August 18 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (died 1743)
- September 17 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (died 1704)
- November 26 - William Derham, English minister and writer (died 1735)
- date unknown
- Clopton Havers, English physiologist
- William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1737)
- See also Category:1657 births.
[edit] Deaths
- March - Edward Hopkins (born 1600)
- March 7 - Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (born 1583)
- April 2 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1608)
- May 9 - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (born 1590)
- May 10 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (born 1592)
- May 16 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (born 1591)
- June 3 - William Harvey, English physician (born 1578)
- August 16 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian Cossack Hetman (born c. 1595)
- August 17 - Robert Blake, British admiral (born 1599)
- August 29 - John Lilburne, English dissenter (born c. 1614)
- September 7 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal and statesman (born 1606)
- September 13 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist (born 1596)
- date unknown - Willem Ysbrandtsz. Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (born 1587)
- See also Category:1657 deaths.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Calendar for year 1657 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: Julian1657.
- ^ "The Land of the 'Free'? - 1650-1699" (timeline), webpage: members.aol.com/wdwylie6/1650-1699.htm.
