Explore 197 historical events from 1650–1659.
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)
Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire, and a Marshal from 1620 until his death.
Jacob De la Gardie, Estonian-Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (born 1583)
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron was an English politician and army officer who fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War.
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (born 1600)
Jan Asselijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Jan Asselijn, Dutch painter (born 1610)
John Greaves was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian.
John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1602)
Antonio Coello was a Spanish dramatist and poet. He entered the household of the Duke of Alburquerque, and after some years of service in the army received the Order of Santiago in…
Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (born 1611)
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia comprising primarily the island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, which has an area of 35,808 km2 (13,…
Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
Joseph Vaz CO was a Oratorian priest and missionary in Dutch Ceylon. Originally from Sancoale in Goa, Portuguese India, Vaz arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, a time wh…
Joseph Vaz, Sri Lankan priest, missionary, and saint (died 1711)
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and…
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and saint (died 1719)
Louis Antoine de Noailles, Cardinal de Noailles, second son of Anne de Noailles, 1st Duke of Noailles, was a French bishop and cardinal. His signing of the Unigenitus bull in 1728 …
Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (died 1729)
Ferdinand Tobias Richter was a Baroque composer and organist from the Holy Roman Empire.
Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (died 1711)
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, P.S.S., more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mo…
François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (died 1715)
The Battle of Berestechko was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the si…
The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of…
The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory
William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circu…
William Dampier, English explorer (died 1715)
Engelbert Kaempfer was a German naturalist, physician, explorer, and writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, Siam and Japan between 1683 and 1693.
Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and botanist (died 1716)
Francis Daniel Pastorius was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official. He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanen…
Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Philadelphia (died 1720)
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in …
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1594)
Prince Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, nicknamed Hammer on the Cossacks, was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince of Vyshnivets, Lu…
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Polish nobleman (born 1612)
The Venetian navy was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Me…
The Venetian fleet under Alvise Mocenigo engages with an Ottoman fleet under Hosambegzade Ali Pasha south of Naxos,…
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 in and around the city of Worcester, England and was the last major battle of the 1642 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A …
The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, also known as the Qing Empire or Qing China, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia which e…
Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern…
William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circu…
William Dampier, explorer, navigator and buccaneer (died 1715)
Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which hi…
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (born 1573)