1657

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years:	1654 1655 1656 – 1657 – 1658 1659 1660

1657 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1657
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.
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. He is the ancestor of the Brunet, Lestang and Carisse families of North America.
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 Mardyck.
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.
Dano-Swedish War (1657–1658)
Coffee was introduced to France.

Births

**1657 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1657 MDCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2410
Armenian calendar	1106 ԹՎ ՌՃԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-187 – -186
Bengali calendar	1064
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
- Bikram Samwat	1713 – 1714
- 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

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 (d. 1702)
- 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

↑ "Calendar for year 1657 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: Julian1657.