* 1651 – André Dacier, French scholar ( d. 1722 )

* 1604 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese 3rd shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty ( d. 1651 )

* 1573 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1651 )

The oldest undisputed evidence of the use of astrology as an integrated system of knowledge is therefore attributed to the records of the first dynasty of Mesopotamia ( 1950 – 1651 BCE ).

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

* 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral ( b. 1651 )

* 1651 – Joseph Vaz, Indian priest, Apostle of Ceylon ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer ( b. 1603 )

* 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )

Cuyp ( 1594 – 1651 / 52 ), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light.

His father, Étienne Pascal ( 1588 – 1651 ), who also had an interest in science and mathematics, was a local judge and member of the " Noblesse de Robe ".

The Apothecary or The Chemist by Gabriël Metsu ( c. 1651 – 67 )

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ( Roundheads ) and Royalists ( Cavaliers ).

* 1694 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Russian noble ( b. 1651 )

** the Regency of Anne of Austria and her minister Cardinal Mazarin, 1643 – 1651

* 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.

* 1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet ( d. 1651 )

* 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer and organist ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( b. 1651 )

* 1651 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician ( d. 1694 )

The second half of the century saw no composers equal in stature, but in the early 17th century Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger ( c. 1580 – 1651 ) and Alessandro Piccinini ( 1566 – 1638 ) revolutionized the instrument's technique and Kapsberger, possibly, influenced the keyboard music of Frescobaldi.

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* April 7 – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer ( b. 1651 )

* Jean-Baptiste de la Salle ( 1651 – 1719 ), Catholic saint, teacher and educational reformer

* Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay ( 1651 – 1690 ), called Seignelay, French politician, son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert

* Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ( 1651 – 1719 ), Patron saint of Teachers and Founder of Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Battle of Beresteczko 1651, relief at Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris

* 1651 – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican mystic and author ( d. 1695 )

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Prince Frederick organized a trading mission to Barbados in 1647 under Gabriel Gomez and the de Casseres brothers, but it and a 1651 expedition of two ships were unsuccessful.

In 1651 when Mazarin had been forced into exile, the Prince was for a time brought onto the conseil du roi, and an ( admittedly very hostile ) contemporary the duchesse de Nemours described him as a ' prime minister without being aware of it '; there were suggestions that Mazarin's opponents within the court had raised him up as a rival to the cardinal with the Queen, but this is unlikely, especially since Mazarin himself urged the Queen to follow Thomas ' advice, and it is more probable that Mazarin backed the Prince as someone who would keep other rivals from gaining control in his absence but who would never have the status within France to set himself up as a permanent replacement for the Cardinal.

In 1651 when Mazarin had been forced into exile, the Prince was for a time brought onto the conseil du roi, and an ( admittedly very hostile ) contemporary the duchesse de Nemours described him as a ' prime minister without being aware of it '; there were suggestions that Mazarin's opponents within the court had raised him up as a rival to the cardinal with the Queen, but this is unlikely, especially since Mazarin himself urged the Queen to follow Thomas ' advice, and it is more probable that Mazarin backed the Prince as someone who would keep other rivals from gaining control in his absence but who would never have the status within France to set himself up as a permanent replacement for the Cardinal.

* Jacobus de la Torre ( 1651 – 1661 )

One of the earliest Western maps of Vietnam, published in 1651 by Alexandre de Rhodes ( north is oriented to the right ).

Alexandre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit priest, improved on earlier work by Portuguese missionaries and developed the Vietnamese romanized alphabet Quốc Ngữ in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanam et Latinum in 1651.

Old map of " Annam ", a drawing by Alexandre de Rhodes ( 1651 )

The appointment was a popular one with the moneyed class, for Fouquet's great wealth had been largely augmented by his marriage in 1651 to Marie de Castille, who belonged to a wealthy family of the legal nobility in Spain.

The dukedom of Albret, united to the crown of France by the accession of this prince, was granted to the family of La Tour d ' Auvergne ( see duc de Bouillon ) in 1651, in exchange for Sedan and Raucourt.

* 1651 Ballet de Cassandre

His wife was Charlotte de la Trémouille, daughter of Claude de la Trémoille, Duc de Thouars, is known as the heroine who defended Lathom House in 1644 and the Isle of Man in 1651.

Molé's moderating counsels failed to prevent the outbreak of the first Fronde, but he negotiated the peace of Rueil in 1651, and averted a conflict between the partisans of Condé and of the Cardinal de Retz within the precincts of the Palais de Justice.

Rabelais ( Pantagruel, IV, 9 ) mentions an homelaicte d ' oeufs, Olivier de Serres an amelette, François Pierre La Varenne's Le cuisinier françois ( 1651 ) has aumelette, and the modern omelette appears in Cuisine bourgoise ( 1784 ).