This article is about the year 1657.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s |
Years: | 1654 1655 1656 – 1657 – 1658 1659 1660 |
1657 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1657 MDCLVII |
Ab urbe condita | 2410 |
Armenian calendar | 1106 ԹՎ ՌՃԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 6407 |
Bahá'í calendar | -187–-186 |
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 | 丙申年十一月十七日 (4293/4353-11-17) — to —
丁酉年十一月廿七日(4294/4354-11-27) |
Coptic calendar | 1373–1374 |
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 |
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 | 2200 |
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 grants residency to Luis Caravajal.[vague]
- February 10 – Christina, former Queen of Sweden, has Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi killed in her presence at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
- 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: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver 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.[citation needed]
- 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.
- 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
- February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757)
- March 1 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
- March 18 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743)
- March 24 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese politician and writer (d. 1725)
- June 10 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1721)
- July 11 – King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
- August 18 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1743)
- September 17 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
- November 26 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
- 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 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)
References
- ^ a b c "1657". British Civil Wars. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60. 2010-06-07. http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm. 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. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/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.
- ^ a b 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. http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx. Retrieved 2012-02-17.