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Year '1653' ('MDCLIII') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1653

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1653

January - June

★ February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.

★ March 14 - A Dutch fleet defeats the English at the Battle of Leghorn. The Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds.

★ April 20 - Oliver Cromwell expels the Long Parliament.

★ May 24 - Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans.

★ June 12 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.

July - December

★ July 4 - The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12.

★ August 8-10 - Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces; English naval victory over Dutch fleet off the Texel.

★ December 16 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Undated

★ End of the first period of republican government called the Commonwealth of England. The Rump Parliament was disbanded by Oliver Cromwell. See also the Long Parliament and Southamptonshire.

★ Marcello Malpighi becomes a doctor of medicine.

★ Stephen Bachiler returns to England.

★ John Thurloe becomes the head of intelligence for Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate.

★ The Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed.

Births

★ 1653 - Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (died 1711)

★ January 13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)

★ February 17 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (died 1713)

★ April 2 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (died 1708)

★ May 8 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (died 1734)

★ June 1 - Georg Muffat, French composer (died 1704)

★ June 26 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (died 1743)

★ July 5 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (died 1726)

★ July 25 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (died 1728)

★ August 9 - John Oldham, English poet (died 1683)

★ August 14 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (died 1688)

★ September 3 - Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (died 1734)

★ October 18 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1713)

★ ''date unknown'' - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (died 1725)
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Deaths

★ March 23 - Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (born 1604)

★ March 24 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (born 1587)

★ May 26 - Robert Filmer, English writer (born 1588)

★ July 10 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)

★ July 31 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1576)

★ August 10 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1598)

★ October 3 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (born 1612)
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