1657

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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).

Contents

Events of 1657

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Notes

Events of 1657

January - June

★ January - The ''Meireki no Taika'' (great fire) in Edo 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. name=JMamsterdam>
"The Land of the 'Free'? - 1650-1699" (timeline),
webpage: members.aol.com/wdwylie6/1650-1699.htm.


★ June 1 - The first Quaker settlers arrive in New Amsterdam (later New York).

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).

★ 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 27 - In New Amsterdam, the Remonstrance is signed at the site of the future Flushing Town Hall (built 1862) in New York.

★ 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.

Undated

★ Accademia del Cimento founded in Florence, Italy - first equivalent to a scientific research center.

★ England's first chocolate shop is opened.

Births

★ 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 .''

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 Chmielnicki, Polish rebel (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 .''

Notes

1.
"Calendar for year 1657 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar),
Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage:
Julian1657.