Today in History for Year 1656

Months in Year 1656: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 8th - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
Jan 17th - Brandenburg & Sweden sign Treaty of Königsberg
Jan 23rd - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
Jan 24th - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
Feb 22nd - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
Mar 13th - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
Apr 10th - Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
Jun 20th - Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
Jul 1st - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
Jul 18th - -20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir & occupies Warsaw
Jul 26th - Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
Sep 15th - England & France sign peace treaty
Sep 19th - Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
Sep 22nd - All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
Oct 2nd - US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
Oct 24th - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
Nov 3rd - Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
Dec 1st - Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
Dec 14th - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 15

Feb 20th - Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
Mar 10th - Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician
Apr 10th - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)
May 31st - Marin Marias, composer
Jul 7th - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
Aug 6th - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
Sep 6th - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
Sep 14th - Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
Oct 20th - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
Oct 29th - Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]
Nov 3rd - Georg Reuter, composer
Nov 4th - Leonard Sailer, composer
Nov 7th - Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen
Nov 8th - Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]
Nov 9th - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Nov 12th - English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 3rd - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
Feb 27th - Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies
Mar 21st - Armagh James Ussher, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (claimed world began 4004 BC), dies at 76
Mar 31st - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64
Apr 24th - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
Apr 27th - Gerard van Honthorst, painter, dies at 65
Apr 27th - Jan J van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 60
Jun 9th - Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies
Jul 2nd - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
Jul 7th - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
Jul 8th - Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64
Jul 27th - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
Aug 11th - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
Sep 8th - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
Oct 2nd - Stephan Otto, German composer, dies at 53
Oct 3rd - Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
Oct 8th - Johann Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
Nov 6th - Johan IV, duke of Braganca/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52
Nov 6th - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)