1650

January 11

• Paul Hallman composer, dies at age 49. [1]

January 18

• French Prince Louis II of Condé captured. [1]

February 1

• Rene Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking. [1]

February 8

• John Adriaensz hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about age 74. [1]

February 11

• René Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking. [1]

March 29

• Cornelis Galle I Flemish engraver, dies at about age 73. [1]

April 20

• VOC-management sets new guidelines. [1]

April 27

• Scottish General Montrose defeated. [1]

April 30

• French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain. [1]

May 20

• Francesco Sacrati composer, dies at age 44. [1]

May 21

• James G Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged. [1]

May 28

• Gilles Hayne composer, dies at age 59. [1]

July 18

• Christoph Scheiner German astronomer, dies at age 74. [1]

September 29

• Henry Robinson opens first marriage bureau (England). [1]

December 21

• Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht. [1]

1651

January 1

• Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland. [1]

January 8

• Giovanni Battista Gagliano composer, dies at age 56. [1]

January 13

• Abraham C Bloemaert painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at age 86. [1]

February 6

• Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris. [1]

February 13

• Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo. [1]

March 5

• South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm. [1]

March 31

• Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru. [1]

July 24

• Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia. [1]

August 13

• Litchfield, Connecticut founded. [1]

December 1

• Cristobal de Isla Diego composer, dies at age 65. [1]

December 6

• Anna Roemers Visscher Dutch poetess, dies at age 68. [1]

December 17

• Wolfgang Schonsleder composer, dies at age 81. [1]

December 18

• Francisco the Melo Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at age 54. [1]

December 24

• John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope. [1]

December 25

• Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas". [1]

1652

January 24

• Duke of Orléans joins Fronde rebels. [1]

February 17

• Gregorio Allegri Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about age 67. [1]

March 21

• Vredius [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at age 55. [1]

April 6

• Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, established by John of Riebeeck. [1]

April 7

• Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa. [1]

April 21

• Pietro Della Valle composer, dies at age 66. [1]

May 2

• Frederik Hendriks daughter Albertine Agnes marries Willem Frederik. [1]

May 4

• Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels. [1]

May 10

• John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton Virginia. [1]

May 13

• Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki. [1]

May 18

• Rhode Island enacts first law declaring slavery illegal. [1]

May 19

• Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen. [1]

May 27

• Jacques Huyn composer, dies at age 39. [1]

May 29

• English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp. [1]

December 8

• Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel Flemish missionary, murdered at age 35. [1]

December 10

• Sea battle at Dungeness: Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet. [1]

December 23

• John Cotton Massachusetts Bay Puritan preacher, dies at age 68. [1]

December 31

• Frances Cecil second wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies. [1]

1653

February 2

• New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York City, New York). [1]

February 3

• Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile. [1]

February 7

• Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendent of Finance of France. [1]

February 16

• Johannes Schultz composer, dies at age 70. [1]

February 19

• Luigi Rossi composer, dies. [1]

February 20

• Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth. [1]

February 21

• Adriaen Pauw master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at age 71. [1]

February 28

• Three Day Sea battle English beats Dutch. [1]

March 14

• Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno. [1]

March 17

• Johan van Galen Admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at age 48. [1]

March 23

• Johan van Galen Dutch Admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about age 48. [1]

April 20

• Cromwell routes English parliament to house. [1]

May 10

• John Bicker ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at age 61. [1]

May 18

• Carel Reyniersz Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at age 48. [1]

May 19

• Carel Reyniersz Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies, dies at age 48. [1]

May 24

• German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria. [1]

July 4

• Barebones Parliment goes into session in England. [1]

December 12

• Barebone-parliament ends. [1]

December 16

• Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. [1]

1654

January 7

• Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, one dies. [1]

January 17

• Paul Potter Dutch painter, buried. [1]

January 26

• Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife. [1]

February 17

• Michael Lohr composer, dies at age 62. [1]

March 21

• Johann Neukrantz composer, dies at age 51. [1]

March 24

• Samuel Scheidt German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at age 66. [1]

April 12

• England, Ireland and Scotland unite. [1]

April 15

• England and Netherlands signs peace treaty. [1]

April 21

• England and Sweden sign trade agreement. [1]

April 26

• Jews are expelled from Brazil. [1]

May 3

• Bridge at Rowley Massachusetts begins charging tolls for animals. [1]
• François van Kinschot treasurer-general/chancellor of Brabant, dies at age 77. [1]

May 13

• Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish. [1]

June 6

• In Sweden, at the Riksdag in Uppsala Castle, Queen Kristina abdicates the throne. Karl X Gustav is declared new king. [7]

June 7

• Louis XIV crowned king of France. [1]

November 21

• Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia. [1]

1655

January 7

• Innocentius X [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at age 80. [1]

February 16

• Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker. [1]

March 25

• Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, Saturn's largest moon. [1] [5]

March 29

• Valerius Andreas Flemish historian, dies at age 66. [1]

April 4

• Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis English fleet beats Barbarian pirates. [1]

April 7

• Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII. [1]

April 14

• Johann Erasmus Kindermann composer, dies at age 39. [1]

April 26

• Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam. [1]

April 28

• English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet. [1]

May 10

• Jamaica captured by English. [1]

July 28

• Cyrano de Bergerac French dramatist/novelist, dies in Paris. [1]

August 28

• New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service. [1]

September 7

• Tristan l'Hermite French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown). [1]

October 15

• Jews of Lublin are massacred. [1]

October 24

• Pierre Gassendi French philosopher, dies at age 63. [1]

December 4

• Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue. [1]

1656

January 8

• Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands). [1]

January 17

• Brandenburg and Sweden sign Treaty of Königsberg. [1]

January 24

• First Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland. [1]

February 20

• James Ussher Irish bible scholar/Anglican archbishop, dies at age 76. [1]

February 22

• New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site. [1]

February 27

• Johan van Heemskerk Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies. [1]

March 13

• Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam. [1]

March 21

• Armagh James Ussher Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at age 76. [1]

March 31

• Pierre de La Barre composer, dies at age 64. [1]

April 10

• Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon. [1]

April 27

• Gerard van Honthorst painter, dies at age 65. [1]
• Jan J van Goyen Dutch landscape painter, dies at age 60. [1]

September 22

• All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her). [1]

October 3

• Myles Standish Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown). [1]

December 1

• Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden. [1]

December 14

• Artificial pearls first manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales. [1]

1657

February 4

• Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal. [1]

February 10

• Sebastian Stosskopf Elizabethian painter, dies at age 59. [1]

March 23

• France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk. [1]

March 26

• Jacob van Eyck Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at age 69. [1]

March 31

• English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown. [1]

April 2

• Ferdinand III King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at age 48. [1]

April 3

• English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown. [1]

April 20

• Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet. [1]

May 9

• William Bradford Governor (Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts), dies. [1]

1658

February 5

• Maria Margaretha van Angels Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at age 52. [1]

February 26

• Denmark signs peace with Sweden at Roskilde, giving up Skåne, Blekinge, Bohuslän, island of Bornholm, and province of Trondheim in central Norway. [7]

March 17

• Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered. [1]

March 23

• Valentin Dretzel composer, dies at age 79. [1]

April 19

• Robert Rich second earl of Warwick English Lord High Admiral, dies at age 70. [1]

May 24

• Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought. [1]

September 3

• Oliver Cromwell the Lord Protector of England, dies at age 59. [1] [309.43]

September 22

• Georg Philipp Harsdörfer poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at age 50. [1]

December 6

• Gracian writer, dies. [1]

December 9

• Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India. [1]

December 26

• Simon Guillain French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at age 78. [1]

1659

January 14

• Battle at Elvas Portuguese beat Spanish. [1]

January 18

• Benedikt Lechler composer, dies at age 64. [1]

January 24

• Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris. [1]

February 16

• First known cheque, for £400 drawn on a British bank. [1] [55.34]

April 15

• Simon Dach German poet, dies. [1]

April 22

• Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament. [1]

May 22

• France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty. [1]

May 25

• Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector. [1]

May 31

• Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. [1]

November 5

• In Italy, an earthquake occurs, killing over 2,000 and inflicting severe damage. [53]

December 16

• General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland. [1]

December 26

• Long Parliament reforms in Westminster. [1]

December 31

• János Apáczai Csere Hung theologist (Magyar Logikácska), dies at age 34. [1]