1657

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Years:	1654 1655 1656 - 1657 - 1658 1659 1660

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Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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 1 Events of 1657 1.1 January – June 1.2 July – December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

Events of 1657

January – June

• January – The Meireki no Taika (great fire) in Edo, Japan 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 – The Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) are granted freedom of religion as full citizens.^[2]
• 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), colonist, explorer and co-discoverer of what is today Green Bay, Wisconsin.
• 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 – Shah Jahan becomes ill, allowing his son to take control.
• October 1 – Treaty of Raalte: Willem II is no longer viceroy of Overijssel.
• October 3 – French troops occupy Mardyke.
• November 6 – Brandenburg and Poland sign the Unity of Bromberg.
• December 27 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed in New Amsterdam at the site of the future Flushing Town Hall (built 1862) in New York.

Undated

• The Accademia del Cimento is founded in Florence, Italy (the first equivalent to a scientific research center).
• England's first chocolate shop is opened.
• Katharina von Georgien was published.

Births

1657 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1657 MDCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2410
Armenian calendar	1106 ԹՎ ՌՃԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-187 – -186
Berber calendar	2607
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	1712 – 1713
- 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)
Korean calendar	3990
Thai solar calendar	2200
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• 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
  • William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1737)

See also Category:1657 births.

Deaths

• March – Edward Hopkins (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 16 – 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)

See also Category:1657 deaths.

Notes

1. ^ "Calendar for year 1657 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: Julian1657.
2. ^ "The Land of the 'Free'? – 1650-1699" (timeline), webpage: members.aol.com/wdwylie6/1650-1699.htm.

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