1657

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1657 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1657
MDCLVII
Ab urbe condita2410
Armenian calendar1106
ԹՎ ՌՃԶ
Assyrian calendar6407
Balinese saka calendar1578–1579
Bengali calendar1064
Berber calendar2607
English Regnal year8 Cha. 2 – 9 Cha. 2
(Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar2201
Burmese calendar1019
Byzantine calendar7165–7166
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4353 or 4293
    — to —
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4354 or 4294
Coptic calendar1373–1374
Discordian calendar2823
Ethiopian calendar1649–1650
Hebrew calendar5417–5418
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1713–1714
 - Shaka Samvat1578–1579
 - Kali Yuga4757–4758
Holocene calendar11657
Igbo calendar657–658
Iranian calendar1035–1036
Islamic calendar1067–1068
Japanese calendarMeireki 3
(明暦３年)
Javanese calendar1579–1580
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3990
Minguo calendar255 before ROC
民前255年
Nanakshahi calendar189
Thai solar calendar2199–2200
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1783 or 1402 or 630
    — to —
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1784 or 1403 or 631
April 20: Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

1657 (MDCLVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1657th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 657th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1650s decade. 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[]

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 (1654–60): 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 attempts to seize a Spanish treasure fleet.
    • The Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York) are granted freedom of religion, as full citizens.[5][citation needed]
  • May 8 – Lord Protector Cromwell confirms his refusal of the crown of England, preferring the title "Lord Protector".[1]
  • June 1
    • 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[6] and introduction of tea in England[7][8] while 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[]

Frederick I of Prussia
Wigerus Vitringa
  • January 1 – Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II (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, Flemish painter (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 (astrologer), British physician and astrologer (d. 1715)
  • 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, 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 (theologian), 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)
  • 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, 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 – King Frederick 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)
  • July 24 – 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, lexicographer (d. 1710)
  • August 9 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French artist (d. 1733)
  • August 18 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and 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 – Dudley Cullum, English politician and Baronet (d. 1720)
  • 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 – 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 – Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (d. 1702)
  • December 8 – Changning, prince during the Qing Dynasty (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 American businessman, father of Benjamin Franklin (d. 1745)
  • December 23 – Hannah Duston, Massachusetts Puritan mother of 8, taken captive during King William's War (d. 1736)
  • December 28 – Domenico Rossi, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1737)

Deaths[]

Robert Blake
Jacob van Campen
  • 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)[9]
  • 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, Japanese daimyō (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)[10]
  • 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 the Knights 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)

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