1657
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| Years: | 1654 1655 1656 – 1657 – 1658 1659 1660 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1657 MDCLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2410 |
| Armenian calendar | 1106 ԹՎ ՌՃԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6407 |
| Bengali calendar | 1064 |
| Berber calendar | 2607 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Cha. 2 – 9 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2201 |
| Burmese calendar | 1019 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7165–7166 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4353 or 4293 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4354 or 4294 |
| Coptic calendar | 1373–1374 |
| Discordian calendar | 2823 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1649–1650 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5417–5418 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1713–1714 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1579–1580 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4758–4759 |
| Holocene calendar | 11657 |
| Igbo calendar | 657–658 |
| Iranian calendar | 1035–1036 |
| Islamic calendar | 1067–1068 |
| Japanese calendar | Meireki 3 (明暦３年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3990 |
| Minguo calendar | 255 before ROC 民前255年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2199–2200 |
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Year 1657 (MDCLVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 8 – Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London and arrested.[1]
- February 4 – Oliver Cromwell gives Antonio Fernandez Carvajal the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England.
- February 23 – In England, the Humble Petition and Advice offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown.[2]
- March 2 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo, Japan, destroys most of the city and damages Edo castle, killing an estimated 100,000 people.[3]
- March 23 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): By the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain;[4] England will receive Dunkirk.
- April 20
- Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish treasure fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- The Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York) are granted freedom of religion as full citizens.
- May 8 – Lord Protector Cromwell confirms his refusal of the crown of England, preferring the title "Lord Protector".[1]
- June 1
- Dano-Swedish War (1657–1658): King Frederick III of Denmark signs a manifesto de facto declaring war on Sweden.
- The first eleven Quaker settlers arrive in New Amsterdam (later New York) and are allowed to practice their faith.
July–December
- July 13 – Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.[1]
- 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. He is the ancestor of the Brunet, Lestang and Carisse families of North America.
- September – Shah Jahan becomes ill, allowing his son to take control of the Mughal Empire.
- September 19 – Brandenburg and Poland sign the Treaty of Wehlau.
- September 24 – The first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict are recorded in the Colony of Maryland.
- October 1 – Treaty of Raalte: William III, Prince of Orange is no longer stadtholder of Overijssel.
- October 3 – French troops occupy Mardyck.
- November 6 – Brandenburg and Poland sign the Treaty of Bromberg.
- November 10 – Christina, former Queen of Sweden, has Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi killed in her presence at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
- December 27 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed in New Amsterdam at the site of the future (1862) Flushing Town Hall in New York.
Date unknown
- The Accademia del Cimento is founded in Florence, Italy.
- England's first chocolate house is opened in London.[5]
- Coffee is introduced to France.
- Christiaan Huygens writes the first book to be published on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae ("On Reasoning in Games of Chance").
- Andreas Gryphius' drama Katharina von Georgien is published.
- Thomas Middleton's tragedy Women Beware Women is published posthumously.[4]
Births
- January 1 – Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II (d. 1680)
- January 1 – Elizabeth van der Woude, Dutch writer (d. 1694)
- January 4 – Sébastien Rale, French missionary (d. 1724)
- January 6 – William Bowes, English politician (d. 1707)
- January 17 – Peter van Bloemen, Italian painter (d. 1720)
- January 18 – Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen (d. 1696)
- January 21 – Francesco Cupani (d. 1710)
- January 26 – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1737)
- January 29 – Francis Moore (astrologer), British physician and astrologer (d. 1123)
- February 10 – George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter, British 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 (d. 1702)
- 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 (theologian), Swiss theologian and biblical scholar (d. 1736)
- March 20 – Luigi Omodei (1657-1706), 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)
- April 16 – 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, Roman 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, United States politician (d. 1728)
- July 11 – King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
- July 12 – Frederick William 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)
- July 24 – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles (d. 1710)
- July 25 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)
- August 7 – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Historian and lexicographer (d. 1710)
- August 9 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French artist (d. 1733)
- August 18 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1743)
- August 18 – 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 – Pieter Schuyler, British colonial military leader, acting governor of New York (d. 1724)
- September 17 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
- September 17 – Dudley Cullum, English politician and Baronet (d. 1720)
- September 21 – Sultan Muhammad Akbar, Mughal prince (d. 1704)
- September 27 – Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Russian tsarevna (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 (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 – Michael Bernhard Valentini, German naturalist (d. 1729)
- November 26 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
- November 28 – Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, Heir apparent to the Spanish throne (d. 1661)
- December 2 – Francis Anthony, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (d. 1702)
- December 8 – Changning (prince), Qing Dynasty prince (d. 1703)
- December 14 – Edmund Dunch (Whig), English politician (d. 1719)
- December 15 – Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons, Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy (d. 1702)
- December 15 – Michel Richard Delalande, French composer (d. 1726)
- December 23 – Josiah Franklin, English-born businessman, father of Benjamin Franklin (d. 1745)
- December 23 – Hannah Duston, Massachusetts Puritan mother of eight taken captive during King William's War (d. 1736)
- December 28 – Domenico Rossi, architect (d. 1737)
- date unknown
- Clopton Havers, English physiologist (d. 1702)
- William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1737)
Deaths
- March – Edward Hopkins, politician (b. 1600)
- March 7 – Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (b. 1583)
- April 2 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1608)
- May 9 – William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
- May 10 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
- May 16 – Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
- June 3 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
- August 6 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian Cossack Hetman (b. c. 1595)
- August 14 – Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
- August 17 – Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
- August 29 – John Lilburne, English dissenter (b. c. 1614)
- September 7 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal and statesman (b. 1606)
- September 13 – Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist (b. 1596)
- Date unknown
- Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain (b. 1587)
- Richard Lovelace, English poet (b. 1617)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "1657". British Civil Wars. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- ↑ Morrill, John (2004). "Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6765. Retrieved 2012-02-17. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Blusse, Leonard; Vaillé, Cynthia (2005). The Deshima Dagregisters, Volume XII 1650-1660. Leiden.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 267–268. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ "Chocolate Arrives in England". Cadbury. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-02-17.