Explore 160 historical events from 1650–1659.
Princess Maria Amalia of Courland was a Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by her marriage to Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. She was a daughter of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland a…
Maria Amalia of Courland, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (died 1711)
James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon, styled Hon. James Bertie until 1657 and known as the 5th Baron Norreys from 1657 until 1682, was an English nobleman.
James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon, English nobleman (died 1699)
Mirza Abu al-Fayaz Qutb al-Din Muhammad Aazam, commonly known as Azam Shah, was briefly the seventh Mughal emperor from 14 March to 20 June 1707. He was the third son of the sixth …
Muhammad Azam Shah, Mughal emperor (died 1707)
Thomas Pitt was a British merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George from 1698 to 1709. Born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, he even…
Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (died 1726)
Sarah Good was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials, which occurred in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts.
Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (died 1692)
John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator. John Dryden, England's first Poet Laureate, was one of his admirers and upon his death wrote an elegy "To the Memory of Mr…
John Oldham, English poet and translator (died 1683)
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle was an English Army officer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons from 1667 to 1670 when he inherited his …
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (died 1688)
Johann Pachelbel was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and hi…
Johann Pachelbel, German organist, composer, and educator (died 1706)
Sir Robert Filmer was an English political theorist who defended the divine right of kings. His best known work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the target of numer…
Robert Filmer, English theorist and author (born 1588)
Gabriel Naudé was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. In 1627, …
Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)
Thomas Dudley was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge,…
Thomas Dudley, English soldier and politician, 3rd Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1576)
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, also known as Maarten van Tromp, was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-D…
Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1598)
Claude Saumaise, also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar.
Claudius Salmasius, French scholar and author (born 1588)
The history of Rhode Island is an overview of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the state of Rhode Island from pre-colonial times to the present.
Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced
Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman Albanian statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 20 June 1652 to 21 March 1653, when he was executed because of the economic refor…
Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Michel Rolle was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690).
Michel Rolle, French mathematician and academic (died 1719)
Johann Philipp Förtsch was a German baroque composer, statesman and medical doctor.
Johann Philipp Förtsch, German composer (died 1732)
John Grubb (1652–1708) was a two-term member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and was one of the original settlers in a portion of Brandywine Hundred that became Claymont,…
John Grubb, American politician (died 1708)
Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga was the only child of Duke Charles II of Mantua and Montferrat, and the last ruler of the Duchy of Mantua of the House of Gonzaga.
Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Italian nobleman (died 1708)
The Battle of Plymouth was a naval battle in the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 16 August 1652 (26 August 1652 and was a short battle, but had the unexpected outcome of a …
Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and George Ayscue in the First…
The Han Chinese, alternatively Han people or Chinese people, are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese a…
Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
Madame Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, also known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, was a German member of the House of Wittelsbach who married into the French royal family. She…
Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (died 1722)
Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry i…
Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House and Wilton House (born 1573)
Charles Amadeus of Savoy, Duke of Nemours was a French military leader and magnate. He was the father of the penultimate Duchess of Savoy and of a Queen of Portugal.
Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (born 1624)