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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{About year|1657}} {{Year nav|1657}} [[File:Charles Edward Dixon HMS St George 1662 Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife 1657 Admiral Robert Blake.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[April 20]]: [[Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1657)|Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife]]]] {{C17 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1657}} == Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[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 are arrested.<ref name="british-civil-wars timelines">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|title=1657|work=British Civil Wars. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60|date=2010-06-07|access-date=2012-02-17|archive-date=May 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509162328/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * January 29 – [[Rule of the Major-Generals]] (regional military government) in England is abolished.<ref name="CBH1657">{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=187–188|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> * [[February 4]] – [[Resettlement of the Jews in England]]: [[Oliver Cromwell]] gives [[Antonio Fernandez Carvajal]] the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England. * [[February 23]] – In England, the ''[[Humble Petition and Advice]]'' offers Lord Protector [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell]] the crown.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=John|last=Morrill|author-link=John Morrill (historian)|title=Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6765|access-date=2012-02-17|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/6765}}</ref> * [[March 2]] – The [[Great Fire of Meireki]] in [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]], Japan, destroys most of the city and damages [[Edo Castle]], killing an estimated 100,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blusse|first1=Leonard|last2=Vaillé|first2=Cynthia|year=2005|title=The Deshima Dagregisters, Volume XII 1650-1660|location=Leiden}}</ref> * [[March 23]] – [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60)]]: By the [[Treaty of Paris (1657)|Treaty of Paris]], France and England form an alliance against Spain;<ref name="Cassell's Chronology267268">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/267 267–268]}}</ref> England will receive [[Dunkirk]]. === April–June === * [[April 20]] ** [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60)|Anglo-Spanish War]] – [[Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1657)|Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife]]: English Admiral [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]] attempts to seize a [[Spanish treasure fleet]]. ** The Jews of [[New Amsterdam]] (later New York City) are granted [[freedom of religion]], as full citizens.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust|last=Urofsky|first=Melvin I.|journal=The SHAFR Guide Online|publisher=Brill|year=2022|doi=10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim110060068|doi-broken-date=April 19, 2025 |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/the-shafr-guide-online/*-SIM110060068|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * [[May 8]] – [[Lord Protector]] [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell]] confirms his refusal of the crown of England, preferring the title "[[Lord Protector]]".<ref name="british-civil-wars timelines"/> * [[June 1]] ** King [[Frederick III of Denmark]] signs a manifesto, ''de facto'' declaring [[Dano-Swedish War (1657–58)|war]] on [[Sweden]]. ** The first eleven [[Quaker]] settlers arrive in [[New Amsterdam]] (later New York City), and are allowed to practice their faith. === July–September === * [[July 13]] – Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to [[Oliver Cromwell]], English army leader [[John Lambert (general)|John Lambert]] is ordered to resign his commissions.<ref name="british-civil-wars timelines"/> * [[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 modern-day [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]], and ancestor of the Brunet, Lestang and Carisse families of North America. * [[September 19]] – [[Brandenburg-Prussia|Brandenburg]] and [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]] sign the [[Treaty of Wehlau]]. * [[September 24]] – The first [[autopsy]] and [[coroner's jury]] verdict in the [[Colony of Maryland]] are recorded. * [[September]] – [[Shah Jahan]] becomes ill, allowing his son to take control of the [[Mughal Empire]]. === October–December === * [[October 1]] – [[Treaty of Raalte]]: [[William III of England|William III, Prince of Orange]] is no longer [[stadtholder]] of [[Overijssel]]. * [[October 3]] – French troops occupy [[Fort-Mardyck|Mardyck]]. * [[November 6]] – Brandenburg and Poland sign the [[Treaty of Bromberg]]. * [[November 10]] – [[Christina, Queen of Sweden|Christina, former Queen regnant of Sweden]], has Gian Rinaldo [[Monaldeschi]] killed in her presence, at the [[Palace of Fontainebleau]]. * [[December 27]] – The [[Flushing Remonstrance]] is signed in [[New Amsterdam]], at the site of the future ([[1862]]) [[Flushing Town Hall]] in New York City. === Date unknown === * The [[Accademia del Cimento]] is founded in [[Florence]], Italy. * England's first chocolate house is opened in London<ref>{{cite web |title=Chocolate Arrives in England |url=http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx |publisher=[[Cadbury]] |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202030731/http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx |archive-date=February 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and introduction of [[Tea in the United Kingdom|tea in England]]<ref>{{cite book|first=William H.|last=Ukers|title=All About Tea|volume=I|url=https://archive.org/details/AllAboutTeaV2|location=New York|publisher=The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal|year=1935|page=38}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url={{google books|id=_TR_PQAACAAJ|page=169|plainurl=yes}}|title=The True History of Tea|last1=Mair|first1=Victor H.|last2=Hoh|first2=Erling|publisher=Thames & Hudson|location=London; New York|year=2009|isbn=978-0-500-25146-1|page=169}}</ref> while [[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 in [[Breslau]]. * [[Thomas Middleton]]'s tragedy ''[[Women Beware Women]]'' (c. 1623–24) is published posthumously in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology267268"/></onlyinclude> == Births == [[File:Frederick I of Prussia (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Frederick I of Prussia]]]] [[File:Wigerus Vitringa.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wigerus Vitringa]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth]], illegitimate son of King Charles II of England (d. [[1680]]) * [[January 4]] – [[Sébastien Rale]], French missionary (d. [[1724]]) * [[January 6]] – [[William Bowes (MP for County Durham)|William Bowes]], English politician (d. [[1707]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Elizabeth van der Woude]], Dutch writer (d. [[1694]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Pieter van Bloemen]], Flemish [[painter]] (d. [[1720]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz]], Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen (d. [[1696]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Francesco Cupani]], Italian naturalist (d. [[1710]]) * [[January 26]] – [[William Wake]], Archbishop of Canterbury (d. [[1737]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Francis Moore (astrologer)|Francis Moore]], English physician and astrologer (d. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shipley |first1=John |title=The Little Book of Shropshire |date=2 March 2015 |publisher=History Press |isbn=978-0-7509-6342-8 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-J2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT108 |language=en}}</ref> * [[February 10]] – [[George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter]], English Army general (d. [[1731]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle]], French scientist and man of letters (d. [[1757]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Blaise Gisbert]], French Jesuit rhetorician and critic (d. [[1731]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Clopton Havers]], English physician (d. [[1702]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Agathe de Saint-Père]], French-Canadian business entrepreneur and inventor (d. [[1748]]) * [[March 1]] – [[Samuel Werenfels]], Swiss theologian (d. [[1740]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Auguste Magdalene of Hessen-Darmstadt]], German noblewoman and poet (d. [[1674]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni]], Italian composer (d. [[1743]]) * [[March 19]] – [[Jean Leclerc (theologian)|Jean Leclerc]], Swiss theologian and biblical scholar (d. [[1736]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Luigi Omodei (1607–1685)]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1706]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Arai Hakuseki]], Japanese politician and writer (d. [[1725]]) * [[April 16]] ** [[Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron]], English politician (d. [[1710]]) ** [[Otto Friedrich von der Groeben]], Prussian traveller, soldier and author (d. [[1728]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Martino Altomonte]], Italian painter (d. [[1745]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Sambhaji]], Maratha ruler (d. [[1689]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy]], French Catholic priest, bishop and cardinal (d. [[1737]]) * [[June 10]] – [[James Craggs the Elder]], English politician (d. [[1721]]) * [[June 14]] – [[Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]], English politician (d. [[1705]]) * [[June 17]] – [[Louis Ellies Dupin]], French ecclesiastical historian (d. [[1719]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Abraham de Peyster]], New Amsterdam/New York politician (d. [[1728]]) * [[July 11]] – King [[Frederick I of Prussia]] (d. [[1713]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]] (d. [[1672]]) * [[July 14]] – [[William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven]], English politician (d. [[1728]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby]], English politician (d. [[1686]]) * [[July 24]] ** [[Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen]], Dutch classical scholar (d. [[1712]]) ** [[Jean Mathieu de Chazelles]], French hydrographer (d. [[1710]]) * [[July 25]] – [[Philipp Heinrich Erlebach]], German composer (d. [[1714]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Henri Basnage de Beauval]], French historian and lexicographer (d. [[1710]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Pierre-Étienne Monnot]], French sculptor (d. [[1733]]) * [[August 18]] ** [[Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena]], Italian [[architect]] and painter (d. [[1743]]) ** [[Antonio Margil]], Spanish Franciscan missionary in North and Central America (d. [[1726]]) * [[September 14]] – [[Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1738]]) * [[September 17]] ** [[Dudley Cullum]], English politician and baronet (d. [[1720]]) ** [[Pieter Schuyler]], acting governor of the province of New York and army colonel (d. [[1724]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Sultan Muhammad Akbar]], Mughal prince (d. [[1706]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia]], Russian regent (d. [[1704]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Heinrich of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby]], German prince (d. [[1728]]) * [[October 2]] – [[Guillaume Baudry]], gunsmith and gold and silversmith in Lower Canada (d. [[1732]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Francesco Solimena]], Italian painter (d. [[1747]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Wigerus Vitringa]], Dutch painter (d. [[1725]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt]], German nobleman (d. [[1690]]) * [[November 6]] – [[Joseph Denis]], Canadian Rėcollet priest (d. [[1736]]) * [[November 12]] – [[Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg]] (d. [[1704]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Juliane Louise of East Frisia]], Princess of East Frisia (d. [[1715]]) * [[November 26]] ** [[William Derham]], English clergyman and natural philosopher (d. [[1735]]) ** [[Michael Bernhard Valentini]], German naturalist (d. [[1729]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias]], heir apparent to the Spanish throne (d. [[1661]]) * [[December 2]] – [[Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch]] (d. [[1702]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Changning (prince)|Changning]], prince of the Qing dynasty (d. [[1703]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Edmund Dunch (Whig)|Edmund Dunch]], English Whig politician (d. [[1719]]) * [[December 15]] ** [[Michel Richard Delalande]], French composer (d. [[1726]]) ** [[Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons]], Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy (d. [[1702]]) * [[December 23]] ** [[Hannah Duston]], Massachusetts Puritan mother of 8, taken captive during King William's War (d. [[1736]]) ** [[Josiah Franklin]], English-born American businessman, father of [[Benjamin Franklin]] (d. [[1745]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Domenico Rossi (architect)|Domenico Rossi]], Swiss-Italian architect (d. [[1737]]) == Deaths == [[File:Robert Blake.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]]]] [[File:Jacob van Campen - Afbeeldingen Stadhuis Amsterdam.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Jacob van Campen]]]] * [[January 24]] – [[Claude, Duke of Chevreuse]] (b. [[1578]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine]], French noble (b. [[1608]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Cesare Dandini]], Italian painter (b. [[1596]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Laura Mancini]], French court beauty (b. [[1636]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Sebastian Stoskopff]], French painter (b. [[1597]]) * [[February 19]] – [[Jean Riolan the Younger]], French anatomist (b. [[1577]]) * [[March]] – [[Edward Hopkins]], colonial Connecticut politician (b. [[1600]]) * [[March 7]] – [[Hayashi Razan]], Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (b. [[1583]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Barthold Nihus]], Roman Catholic priest (b. [[1590]]) * April ? – [[Richard Lovelace (poet)|Richard Lovelace]], English Cavalier poet (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Raymond |last=Anselment|title=Lovelace, Richard (1617–1657)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17056|accessdate=30 July 2021|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17056}}</ref> * [[April 2]] ** [[Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1608]]) ** [[Jean-Jacques Olier]], French Catholic priest (b. [[1608]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Sophie Elisabeth Pentz]], daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (b. [[1619]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Nabeshima Katsushige]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' (b. [[1580]]) * [[May 9]] – [[William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor)|William Bradford]], Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. [[1590]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Gustav Horn, Count of Pori]], Swedish soldier and politician (b. [[1592]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Andrzej Bobola]], Polish Jesuit missionary (b. [[1591]]) * [[June 3]] – [[William Harvey]], English physician (b. [[1578]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History - William Harvey |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/harvey_william.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref> * [[June 26]] – [[Tobias Michael]], German composer and cantor (b. [[1592]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg]], Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (b. [[1600]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]], Ukrainian Cossack Hetman (b. c. [[1595]]) * [[August 14]] – [[Giovanni Paolo Lascaris]], Italian 57th Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1560]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Frans Snyders]], Flemish painter (b. [[1579]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]], British admiral (b. [[1599]]) * [[August 29]] – [[John Lilburne]], English dissenter (b. c. [[1614]]) * [[September 1]] – [[Arnold Vinnius]], Dutch lawyer (b. [[1588]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Arvid Wittenberg]], Swedish field marshal and statesman (b. [[1606]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Jacob van Campen]], Dutch artist (b. [[1596]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Joachim Jungius]], German mathematician and philosopher (b. [[1587]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Olimpia Maidalchini]], politically active Roman noble (b. [[1591]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Prince Maurice of Savoy]], Catholic cardinal and Prince of Savoy (b. [[1593]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Domenico Massenzio]], Italian baroque composer (b. [[1586]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf]], French noble (b. [[1596]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Anders Bille]], Danish general (b. [[1600]]) * [[November 18]] – [[Luke Wadding]], Irish Franciscan friar and historian (b. [[1588]]) * [[November 20]] – [[Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1600]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Johan Oxenstierna]], Swedish count and statesman (b. [[1611]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville]], French poet (b. [[1607]]) * ''date unknown'' – [[Willem Bontekoe]], Dutch sea captain (b. [[1587]]) == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1657}} [[Category:1657| ]]
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