Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1650 1651 1652 – 1653 – 1654 1655 1656

1653 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1653

[edit] January–June

• February 2 – New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
• March 14 – Battle of Leghorn: A Dutch fleet defeats the English; the Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds.
• April 20 – Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament.
• May 24 – Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans.
• June 12 – June 13 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Gabbard: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet, which loses 17 ships.

[edit] July–December

• July 4 – The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12.
• August 8–August 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; The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet off the Texel.
• November – John Castor flees Anthony Johnson's farm, sparking the legal basis for slavery in the United States.
• December 16 – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

[edit] Undated

• The first period of republican government (called the Commonwealth of England) ends. The Rump Parliament is 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.
• Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg reconfirms the nobility's freedom from taxation and its unlimited control over the peasants.
• The army prepares a constitution that invests executive power in a lord protector and a council of state in England.

[edit] Ongoing events

• Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine (1648–1654)

[edit] Births

1653 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1653 MDCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2406
Armenian calendar	1102 ԹՎ ՌՃԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-191 – -190
Bengali calendar	1060
Berber calendar	2603
Buddhist calendar	2197
Burmese calendar	1015
Byzantine calendar	7161 – 7162
Chinese calendar	壬辰年十二月初二日 (4289/4349-12-2) — to — 癸巳年十一月十二日 (4290/4350-11-12)
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)
Korean calendar	3986
Thai solar calendar	2196
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• January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
• February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
• April 2 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1708)
• May 8 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)
• June 1 – Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
• June 26 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (d. 1743)
• July 5 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
• July 25 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
• August 9 – John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
• August 14 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
• September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (d. 1734)
• October 18 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
• date unknown – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (d. 1725)
• date unknown – Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (d. 1711)

See also Category:1653 births.

[edit] Deaths

• March 23 – Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)
• May 26 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
• July 10 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
• July 31 – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
• August 10 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
• October 3 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
• Artemesia Gentileschi, Roman artist

See also Category:1653 deaths.