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Events
February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
April 20 – Oliver Cromwell expels the Long Parliament
May 24 – Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans
June 12 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.
July 4 - The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12
August 9 - English naval victory over Dutch fleet off the Texel
December 16 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
End of the first period of republican government called the Commonwealth of England. The Rump Parliament was 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
Taj Mahal finished
Births
January 13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, theologian († 1705)
February 17 - Arcangelo Corelli, composer († 1713)
April 2 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain
June 26 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV
Roger North, biographer († 1734)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, playwright († 1724)
Deaths
August 10 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral
Category:1653
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