Born in 1656:
Died in 1656:
Events of 1656:
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London's first opera house, Rutland House, opens to The Siege
of Rhodes by William Davenant, Matthew Locke, et al.
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Molière's play Le depit amoureux is performed.
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Abraham Cowley's Miscellanies and Pindaric Odes
appear.
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Petrus Borellus provides the first description of nematodes.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini begins construction of the Vatican's
Piazza San Pietro.
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Christiaan Huygens gives the first description of M42,
the Orion Nebula.
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Fengxiandian (Hall for Ancestral Worship) is built within Beijing's
Forbidden City.
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Virginia forbids the enslavement of Indians.
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Baruch Spinoza is excommunicated from his Amsterdam synagogue.
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Blaise Pascal publishes his Lettres Provinciales defending
Antoine Arnauld and Jansenism in general.
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John Wallis publishes his Arithmetica Infinitorum.
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Michael Boym publishes Flora Siniensis.
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Martino Martini's history of China, Sinicae historiae decas prima,
appears.
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The Venetian navy destroys the Ottoman navy off the
Dardanelles.
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Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV reached his majority and appoints Mehmed
Koprulu grand vizier.
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Mughal Prince Aurangzeb, Viceroy of the Deccan for
his father Shah Jahan, captures the Bidar Fort, and invades Hyderabad,
besieging King Abul Hassan Tana Shah in the Golkunda Fort..
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As Bijapur buries Mohammed Adil Shah in the great Gol Gumbaz,
Maratta warlord Shivaji and Aurangzeb each see opportunity for conquest.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Chaos in Eastern Europe.
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Russia invades Estonia (controlled by Sweden's vassal Finland).
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Brandenburg and Sweden sign a treaty taking control of Prussia
away from Poland, and giving it to Sweden.
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A Brandenburgian-Swedish army captures Warsaw. A rather
thorough looting of Warsaw results in Polish revenge strikes on East Prussia
and Brandenburg.
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Polish king Jan II Casimir appeals for help from other Catholic countries
against the Lutheran invaders. Swedish King Charles X's supply
lines are rather long, and harassment by the Poles forces him to pull
out of southern Poland. A Polish-Tatar army defeats the Swedish-Brandenburgian
army at the Battle of Protski.
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An ancient icon, the Black Madonna of Czestocowa, is made a symbolic
'Queen of Poland'.
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The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
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Fire destroys the city of Stade.
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the first Quakers arrive in Plymouth Colony and Massachussets
Bay Colony.
1655 - 1656 - 1657
How They Were Made - 17th Century
1On a side note, Ussher calculated that the Great Flood happened
1656 years after a
4004 BC Creation.