1650s
1650s: events by year
Contents: 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659
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- July – The Russian Army seizes Smolensk, and Thirteen Years War starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine.
- July 10 – Peter Vowell and John Gerard are executed for plotting to assassinate Oliver Cromwell.
- August 22 – Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what would be the second largest urban Jewish community in history (second only to Tel Aviv), the Jewish community of New York City.[1][2]
- 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 absolutist 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.
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- The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building designed as a library.
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