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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
Category:1657
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