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Years:
1654 1655 1656 - 1657 - 1658 1659 1660
Decades:
1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1657 in literature
1657 in science

Events

  • January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London
  • February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica.
  • April 20 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  • Great fire in Edo destroys most of the city and damages Edo castle
  • Academia del Cimento founded in Florence, Italy - first equivalent to a scientific research center
  • Oliver Cromwell offered kingship of England, but instead becomes Lord Protector
  • Births

  • February 11 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters.
  • March 24 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer
  • July 11 - King Frederick I of Prussia
  • Deaths

  • April 2 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
  • August 16 - Bohdan Chmielnicki
  • August 17 - death of Admiral Robert Blake from old wounds
  • Jacob van Campen
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