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 of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) are granted freedom of religion as full citizens.

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• 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 - 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.
• December 27 - Flushing Remonstrance signed in New Amsterdam at the site of the future Flushing Town Hall (built 1862) in New York.

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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 1657 births.

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 Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian Cossack Hetman (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 1657 deaths.

Notes

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