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1653
Christian Schybi leads Lucerne's subjects in the Swiss Peasants' War .	Oliver Cromwell forcibly dissolves the rump parliament .
The sea ​​battle at Scheveningen is the final battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War .
1653 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1101/02 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1645/46 (September 10-11)
Bengali solar calendar	1058/59 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2196/97 (southern Buddhism); 2195/96 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	72nd (73rd) cycle Year of the water snake癸巳 ( at the beginning of the year water dragon 壬辰)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1015/16 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	3986/87 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1031/32
Islamic calendar	1063/64 (November 21-22)
Jewish calendar	5413/14 (September 21/22)
Coptic calendar	1369/70 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	828/829
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1963/64 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1964/65 (turn of the year October)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1709/10 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Anglo-Dutch War

• February 28 : The Anglo-Dutch War leads to the sea ​​battle near Portland . After three days of fighting, in which the Dutch losses are higher, English supremacy in the English Channel is restored.

Sea battle near Livorno , Willem Hermansz van Diest

• March 14 : In the sea ​​battle near Livorno, the Dutch under Johan van Galen defeat an English squadron and gain control of the Mediterranean.
• June 12 : The Netherlands suffer one of their worst defeats in the sea ​​battle at Gabbard . The English then control the North Sea and block the Dutch coast, which practically paralyzes its economy.
• August 10th : The naval battle at Scheveningen is the last battle with weapons in the first Anglo-Dutch War . Both sides claim victory for themselves. The death of their admiral Maarten Tromp in battle encourages, among other things, the willingness of the Dutch to make peace.

Commonwealth of England

• April 20 : In England , Oliver Cromwell with 30 gunmen drives out the roughly 100 members of the rump parliament . In the days before, they refused to resolve the self-dissolution of parliament.
• April 27 : The last organized Irish rebel force surrenders at Cloughoughter, County Cavan. The recapture of Ireland by Cromwell's forces is now complete.
• December 16 : England's first written constitution , the Instrument of Government is promulgated by the British Army Council in London . Oliver Cromwell accepts the title of Lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland .

• In Scotland , the Glencairn uprising of royalists begins under the leadership of William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn , against Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate.

Swiss peasant war

Scenes of the Swiss Peasant War

• January: Beginning of the uprisings under Niklaus Leuenberger and Christian Schybi .
• June 3 : Swiss Peasants 'War - The peasants ' campaign to Zurich ends with the battle near Wohlenschwil , which the people of Zurich set on fire. The uprising collapses.
• June 4th : In the Peace of Mellingen , the defeated farmers have to accept harsh conditions. The leaders of the uprising are banished or punished with death.

Execution of 7 insurgents on the Gellert in Basel

• Ueli Galli , the rebel from Eggiwil , is hanged for instigating a peasant uprising.

Holy Roman Empire

• May 31 : Ferdinand IV is elected German King in Augsburg and crowned on June 18 .
• Friedrich Wilhelm (the Great Elector) creates a unified civil service in Brandenburg-Prussia.

Other events in Europe

• Through the intercession of his uncle Cornelis de Graeff, Johan de Witt was appointed council pensioner of Holland (until 1672 ).
• End of the Fronde fighting in France

American colonies

• February 2 : Nieuw Amsterdam , the administrative seat of the Dutch colony Nieuw Nederland and the predecessor of today's New York City , receives city ​​charter .

Asia

• The ship De Sperwer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on its way to Japan is shipwrecked off the island of Jeju-do . The 36 survivors, including the accountant Hendrik Hamel , are arrested by the local governor and taken to the mainland in the capital Seoul on the orders of the king . They are forbidden to leave the country, but they are assigned various tasks that allow them to get to know the country and its people.

economy

• August 8 : The Paris City Post Office , set up by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer , issues prepaid paper strips as proof of postage.

science and technology

• May 27th : Childerich's grave is discovered in Tournai .

• Pierre de Fermat represents the Great Fermat's theorem on who will occupy the mathematicians until the 20th century.
• André Tacquet gives the first slide show.

Culture

Visual arts

The three crosses

• Rembrandt van Rijn made the etching The Three Crosses .

Music and theater

• February 24th : The world premiere of the drama L'inganno d'amore by Antonio Bertali takes place in Regensburg.

Jesus, my confidence in the practice Pietatis melica 1653

• Johann Crüger publishes the fifth edition of his hymn book Praxis pietatis melica , in which a large number of sacred songs by Paul Gerhardt were published for the first time, including Befiehl du dich your ways , Go out, my heart, and seek Freud , I stand at your crib here , Praise to all the Lords who honor him , Jesus, my confidence and how shall I receive you .
• Heinrich Schütz composes the St. Luke Passion as the first part of a chorale trilogy.

Others

• The recipe for a Linz cake in the cookbook by Countess Anna Margarita Sagramosa from Verona is considered the oldest written cake recipe in the world.

society

• Queen Christina of Sweden founds the Amaranten Order .

religion

• May 31 : With the bull Cum occasione , Pope Innocent X condemns five sentences of Jansenism .
• July 22nd : The Corpus Evangelicorum , the body of the Protestant imperial estates in religious and church affairs, is constituted at the Reichstag in Regensburg . The board of directors is located in Saxony . From the establishment of the Corpus Evangelicorum, resolutions on religious questions are only passed in agreement with both bodies, the Corpus Evangelicorum and the Corpus Catholicorum .

• The Thomas Christians in Kerala take the oath of the Leaning Cross , which later led to the division of the group into a Catholic and an autocephalous part.
• The Regensburg seminary is founded.

Historical maps and views

Poland 1653

Born

First half of the year

• 0January 7th : Bernhard Friedrich Albinus , German doctor († 1721 )
• January 11 : Gaspar de la Cerda Sandoval Silva y Mendoza , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain († 1697 )
• January 16 : Johann Konrad Brunner , Swiss doctor († 1727 )

• 0February 5 : Johann Heinrich May the Elder , German Lutheran theologian, philologist and historian († 1719 )
• February 12 : Siface (originally Giovanni Francesco Grossi), Italian singer and castrato († 1697 )
• February 17 : Arcangelo Corelli , Italian composer († 1713 )

• March 28 : Jacob Züblin , Mayor of St. Gallen († 1729 )

• 0May 1 : George of Denmark and Norway , husband of Queen Anne of Britain († 1708 )
• 0May 8 : Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars , Marshal of France († 1734 )
• May 10 : Leander Anguissola , Italian cartographer, educator, engineer and lieutenant colonel († 1720 )

• 0June 1 : Georg Muffat , French musician and composer († 1704 )
• June 11th : Matthias Klotz , is considered the founder of violin making in Mittenwald († 1743 )
• June 12 : Maria Anna Amalia of Courland , Princess of Courland and Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel († 1711 )
• June 22nd : André-Hercule de Fleury , French cardinal and statesman († 1743 )

Second half of the year

• 0September 1 : Johann Pachelbel , German composer and organist († 1706 )

• October 10 : Anton Günther II. , Prince of Schwarzburg, Count of Hohnstein, Lord of Sondershausen, Arnstadt and Leutenberg († 1716)
• October 18 : Abraham van Riebeeck , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies († 1713 )

• November 11th : Anton Günther , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Prussian Lieutenant General († 1714 )
• November 11th : Carlo Ruzzini , 113th Doge of Venice († 1735 )
• November 16 : Joan van Hoorn , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies († 1711 )
• November 19 : Christian II , Duke of Saxony-Merseburg († 1694 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Chikamatsu Monzaemon , Japanese playwright († 1725 )
• Thomas d'Urfey , English author († 1723 )

Died

First half of the year

• February 20 : Paul Marquard Schlegel , German doctor and botanist (* 1605 )
• February 23 : Georg Rodolf Weckherlin , German poet (* 1584 )
• February 27 : Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla , Viceroy of New Spain and Viceroy of Navarre (* 1599 )

• 0March 4 : Rudolf von Tiefenbach , Imperial Habsburg general (* 1582 )
• March 15 : Pietro Maino Maderno , ennobled imperial court sculptor (* around 1592 )
• March 20 : Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg , Duke of Pfalz-Neuburg and Duke of Jülich-Berg (* 1578 )
• March 23 : Christian Arnd , German theologian and logician (* 1623 )
• March 23 : Johan van Galen , Dutch squadron commander (* 1604 )
• March 24th : Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu , Archbishop of Aix and Lyon (* 1582 )

• May 19 : Carel Reyniersz , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (* 1604 )
• May 26 : Robert Filmer , English political theorist (* 1588 )

• 0June 7th : Ludwig Jungermann , German botanist and doctor (* 1572 )

Second half of the year

• July 31 : Thomas Dudley , English governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (* 1576 )

• August 10 : Maarten H. Tromp , Dutch admiral (* 1598 )
• August 22nd : August , Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau (* 1575 )

• 0September 3 : Claudius Salmasius , French classical philologist and polymath (* 1588 )

• 0October 3 : Achatius von Quitzow , member of the fruit-bearing society (* 1606 )
• 0October 5 : Joseph Clauder , German Protestant theologian, hymn composer and poet (* 1586 )
• October 13 : Christoph Martin von Degenfeld , German general (* 1599 )
• October 25th : Théophraste Renaudot , French doctor and philanthropist (* 1586 )

• November 28 : Elias Ehinger , German theologian and philologist (* 1573 )

• 0December 7th : Christoph Carl Fernberger , German world traveler and explorer (* around 1596 )
• December 15 : Paris von Lodron , Archbishop of Salzburg (* 1586 )

Exact date of death unknown

• December: John Taylor , English poet (* 1578 )

Died around 1653

• Artemisia Gentileschi , Italian Baroque painter (* 1593 )

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