Today in History for Year 1657

Months in Year 1657: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 13 of 13

Feb 4th - Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
Mar 23rd - France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
Mar 31st - English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
Apr 3rd - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
Apr 20th - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
Jun 1st - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
Jul 13th - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
Sep 19th - Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
Sep 24th - 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland
Oct 1st - Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
Oct 3rd - French troops occupy Mardyke
Nov 6th - Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
Dec 27th - The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 20 of 20

Jan 17th - Pieter van Bloemen, [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized
Jan 18th - Hendrik Casimir II, Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau)
Feb 11th - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
Mar 1st - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
Mar 18th - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
Mar 24th - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
May 5th - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
Jun 3rd - Manuel de Egues, composer
Jun 10th - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
Jun 14th - Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral
Jul 11th - Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13)
Jul 25th - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
Aug 10th - Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
Aug 18th - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
Sep 27th - Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89)
Oct 4th - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
Nov 8th - Thomas Bullis, composer
Nov 11th - Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
Nov 26th - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
Dec 15th - Michel-Richard Delalande, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 16 of 16

Feb 10th - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59
Mar 26th - Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69
Apr 2nd - Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48
Apr 2nd - Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
May 9th - William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
May 10th - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
May 16th - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
Jun 3rd - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
Jun 26th - Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65
Aug 6th - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
Aug 7th - Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57
Aug 29th - John Lilburne, English dissenter
Sep 7th - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
Sep 13th - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62
Sep 26th - Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48
Sep 28th - Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75