1653

Events of 1653

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.

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.
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg reconfirms the nobility's freedom from taxation and its unlimited control over the peasants.
The army prepares a constitution that invests executive power in a lord protector and a council of state in England.

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)
date unknown - Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (died 1711)