1653

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Template:C17YearInTopicX Year 1653 (MDCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1653 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1653

[edit] January - June

• February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
• March 14 - A Dutch fleet defeats the English at the Battle of Leghorn. The Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds.
• 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.

[edit] July - December

• July 4 - The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12.
• August 8-10 - Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces; English naval victory over Dutch fleet off the Texel.
• December 16 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

[edit] Undated

• 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.
• The Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed.

[edit] Births

1653 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1653 MDCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2406
Armenian calendar	1102 ԹՎ ՌՃԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-191 – -190
Buddhist calendar	2197
Coptic calendar	1369 – 1370
Ethiopian calendar	1645 – 1646
Hebrew calendar	5413 – 5414
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1708 – 1709
- Shaka Samvat	1575 – 1576
- Kali Yuga	4754 – 4755
Holocene calendar	11653
Iranian calendar	1031 – 1032
Islamic calendar	1063 – 1064
Japanese calendar	Jōō 2 (承応 2年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2313 (皇紀2313年)
Julian calendar	1698
Korean calendar	3986
Thai solar calendar	2196
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• January 13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)
• February 17 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (died 1713)
• April 2 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (died 1708)
• May 8 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (died 1734)
• June 1 - Georg Muffat, French composer (died 1704)
• June 26 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (died 1743)
• July 5 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (died 1726)
• July 25 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (died 1728)
• August 9 - John Oldham, English poet (died 1683)
• August 14 - Christopher Monck, English statesman (died 1688)
• September 3 - Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (died 1734)
• October 18 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1713)
• date unknown - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (died 1725)
• date unknown - Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (died 1711)

See also 1653 births.

[edit] Deaths

• March 23 - Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (born 1604)
• March 24 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (born 1587)
• May 26 - Robert Filmer, English writer (born 1588)
• July 10 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)
• July 31 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1576)
• August 10 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1598)
• October 3 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (born 1612)

See also 1653 deaths.

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