1653
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s |
| Years: | 1650 1651 1652 – 1653 – 1654 1655 1656 |
| 1653 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1653 (MDCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1653
January–June
- February 2 – New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
- March 14 – Battle of Leghorn: A Dutch fleet defeats the English; the Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds.
- April 20 – Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament.
- May 24 – Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans.
- June 12 – June 13 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Gabbard: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet, which loses 17 ships.
July–December
Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed.
- July 4 – The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12.
- August 8–August 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces; The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet off the Texel.
- November – John Castor flees Anthony Johnson's farm, sparking the legal basis for slavery in the United States.
- December 16 – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Undated
- The first period of republican government (called the Commonwealth of England) ends. The Rump Parliament is 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.
Ongoing events
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1653 MDCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2406 |
| Armenian calendar | 1102 ԹՎ ՌՃԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -191 – -190 |
| Bengali calendar | 1060 |
| Berber calendar | 2603 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2197 |
| Burmese calendar | 1015 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7161 – 7162 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年十二月初二日 (4289/4349-12-2) — to —
癸巳年十一月十二日(4290/4350-11-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 1369 – 1370 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1645 – 1646 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5413 – 5414 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1709 – 1710 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1575 – 1576 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4754 – 4755 |
| Holocene calendar | 11653 |
| Iranian calendar | 1031 – 1032 |
| Islamic calendar | 1063 – 1064 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōō 2 (承応2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3986 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2196 |
- January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
- February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
- April 2 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1708)
- May 8 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)
- June 1 – Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
- June 26 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (d. 1743)
- July 5 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
- July 25 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
- August 9 – John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
- August 14 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
- September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (d. 1734)
- October 18 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
- date unknown – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (d. 1725)
- date unknown – Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (d. 1711)
- See also Category:1653 births.
Deaths
- January 16 – John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, English diplomat (b. 1580)
- March 23 – Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)
- May 26 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
- July 10 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
- July 31 – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
- August 10 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
- October 3 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
- Artemesia Gentileschi, Roman artist
- See also Category:1653 deaths.