1654: Difference between revisions

Years: 1651 1652 1653 - 1654 - 1655 1656 1657

Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1654 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1654 MDCLIV Ab urbe condita 2407 Armenian calendar 1103 ԹՎ ՌՃԳ Assyrian calendar 6404 Balinese saka calendar 1575–1576 Bengali calendar 1060–1061 Berber calendar 2604 English Regnal year 5 Cha. 2 – 6 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) Buddhist calendar 2198 Burmese calendar 1016 Byzantine calendar 7162–7163 Chinese calendar 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4351 or 4144     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4352 or 4145 Coptic calendar 1370–1371 Discordian calendar 2820 Ethiopian calendar 1646–1647 Hebrew calendar 5414–5415 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1710–1711  - Shaka Samvat 1575–1576  - Kali Yuga 4754–4755 Holocene calendar 11654 Igbo calendar 654–655 Iranian calendar 1032–1033 Islamic calendar 1064–1065 Japanese calendar Jōō 3 (承応３年) Javanese calendar 1576–1577 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 10 days Korean calendar 3987 Minguo calendar 258 before ROC 民前258年 Nanakshahi calendar 186 Thai solar calendar 2196–2197 Tibetan calendar 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1780 or 1399 or 627     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1781 or 1400 or 628

Events

• April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
• June 3 - Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims
• June 6 - Charles X succedes his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
• September 3 - In the Rump Parliament, the republican party question Cromwell's pre-eminence
• September 12 - Oliver Cromwell orders the exclusion of the members of Parliament who are hostile to him
• October 12 - Carel Fabritius, the most promising student of Rembrandt, dies aged 32 in an explosion at the arsenal at Delft
• October 31 - Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria is crowned. His absolutistic style of leadership becomes a benchmark for the rest of Germany
• November 23 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.
• Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what would be the largest urban Jewish community in history, the Jewish community of New York City.
• The Ukrainian Bogdan Chmielnicki renounces Ukrainian independence and swears allegiance to Tsar Alexis of Russia
• The Russian Army seizes Smolensk, and war starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine
• Otto von Guericke proves the existence of atmospheric pressure

Births

• January 10 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
• January 22 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
• March 16 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
• May 4 - Emperor Kangxi of China (d. 1722)
• July 9 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (b. 1633)
• July 9 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
• December 27 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (d. 1705)

Deaths

• January 17 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
• March 24 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
• August 31 - Olaus Wormius, Danish physician and antiquary (b. 1588)
• October 12 - Carel Fabritius, Dutch artist (b. 1622)
• October 30 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
• November 30 - John Selden, English jurist (b. 1584)
• December 5 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer