1657 - All About All

1657

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
• Accademia 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 (d. 1757)
• March 1 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
• March 18 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743)
• March 24 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese politician and writer (d. 1725)
• June 10 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1721)
• July 11 - King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
• September 17 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
• November 26 - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
• William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1737)

Deaths

• April 2 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
• May 9 - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
• May 10 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
• May 16 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
• June 3 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
• August 16 - Bohdan Chmielnicki, Polish rebel
• August 17 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
• August 29 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
• September 7 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal and statesman (b. 1606)
• Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist (b. 1596)