* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1653 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician ( d. 1688 )

* 1653 – Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England ( d. 1708 )

* 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar ( d. 1653 )

* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

* 1653 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral ( b. 1598 )

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Between 1653 – 1659 it was known as the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

* 1653 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

The English Civil War led to the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of his son, Charles II, and replacement of English monarchy with, first, the Commonwealth of England ( 1649 – 53 ), and then with a Protectorate ( 1653 – 59 ), under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule.

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer ( b. 1597 )

The Commonwealth ( 1649 – 53 ) was founded on the execution of Charles I in 1649, and was followed by the two Protectorates of Oliver Cromwell ( 1653 – 58 ), and his son Richard Cromwell the first ( 1658 – 59 ).

* 1653 – New Amsterdam ( later renamed The City of New York ) is incorporated.

* 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar ( d. 1653 )

Hugh Binning ( 1627 – 1653 ) was a Scottish philosopher.

At the town's incorporation in 1653, it was named Portsmouth in honor of the colony's founder, John Mason.

At that time, the boundaries Sudbury included ( by 1653 ) all what is now of Wayland ( which split off in 1780 ), and parts of Framingham, Marlborough, Stow and Maynard.

At the outset of the Battle of the Gabbard on 1 June 1653, Deane was killed.

At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and the Treaty of Stettin in 1653, Sweden received Western Pomerania, or Vorpommern with the islands of Rügen, Usedom, and Wolin, and a strip of Eastern Pomerania, or Hinterpommern.

At Hamura is the source of the historic Tamagawa Waterway built by the Tamagawa brothers in 1653 to supply water to Edo ( present day Tokyo ).

At the end of Greenhill's term in 1653, Fort St George was elevated to a Presidency, independent of Bantam and under the leadership of first President Aaron Baker.

At least seven ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy have been named HNLMS Tromp after Admiral Maarten Tromp ( 1598 – 1653 ), or his son Cornelis Tromp ( 1629 – 1691 ):

His prodigious output once caused mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri to write to Galileo Galilei that Liceti “ makes a book a week (' esso fa un libro in una settimana ').” At the end of Liceti's 1653 work Hieroglyphica, he included a list of his compositions to that point.

At about 1650, the Iroquois declared war on the Attawandaron ; by 1653, the people were practically annihilated, and their villages were wiped out, including Kandoucho.

Resentment of these measures led the majority of the community to join the archdeacon, Thomas, in swearing never to submit to the Portuguese in the Coonan Cross Oath in 1653.

This resulted in disaffection which led to a general revolt in 1653 known as The Coonan Cross Oath. Under the leadership of their elder Thomas, Nazranis around Cochin gathered at Mattancherry church on Friday, January 24, 1653 ( M. E.

In 1653, after the Coonan Cross Oath, Archdeacon Thomas was consecrated as Bishop Mar Thoma I, thus the role was changed and his line continued until Mar Thoma VIII in 1815 among the Malankara Orthodox Syrians.

Later in 1653, Coonan Cross Oath led to the division of the local church into Syrian Catholics and Syrian Christians ( Jacobites ).

Following the Coonan Cross Oath of 1653, both the Southists and Northists were split internally into Catholic and Malankara Church factions ; this rift overshadowed the north-south divide for a period.

* 1653: The Coonan Cross Oath was taken by a group of Saint Thomas Christians against the Portuguese.

The Coonan Cross Oath ( Koonan Kurishu Satyam ), taken on January 3, 1653, was a public avowal by members of the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India that they would not submit to Portuguese dominance in ecclesiastical and secular life.

On January 3, 1653 Archeadeacon Thomas and representatives from the community met at the Church in Mattancherry to swear what would be known as the Coonan Cross Oath.

In 1653, following the Coonen Cross Oath the Malankara Church felt the need to have an indigenous bishop.

When they came to know that Mar Ahatalla was drowned carried off, they could not tolerate the imperious Portuguese and their arbitrary actions ; they assembled in thousands around a big granite cross, the Coonen Kurish ( Leaning Cross ) in the Mattanchery parish church grounds near Cochin on January 16, 1653 and took an oath to submit no longer to the ecclesiastical authority of Rome and to obey none save their Archdeacon Thomas until they get a bishop from the Eastern Church.

When the 1648 Peace of Westphalia and the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ) divided the Duchy of Pomerania into its Western, Swedish and Eastern Brandenburgian parts, Farther Pomerania was used for the latter-in opposition to Swedish Hither Pomerania ( Vorpommern ) now including Stettin ( Szczecin ) and a strip of land east of the Oder River.

However a later Patriarch, Mar Shimun XIII Dinkha, broke the union with the Catholic Church, thus he and other Patriarchs of the Shimun line are sometimes list as Patriarchs of the Assyrian Church of the East ), held position 1600 – 1653 < ref name =" friesian. com "> herlands ( 1588 – 1629 ), painter

In 1653, Hooke ( who had also undertaken a course of twenty lessons on the organ ) secured a chorister's place at Christ Church, Oxford.

The other section of Christians under the Roman Catholic Church did not consider Mar Thoma I as a bishop due to the nature of his ordination and many of the revolters returned to the Roman Catholic Church between 1653 and 1665 as a result of the proselytization efforts of the Carmelite missionaries sent by Rome.

Robert Hooke was gradually recruited into the Wilkins group: he arrived at Christ Church, Oxford in 1653, working his way to an education, became assistant to Willis, and became known to Wilkins ( possibly via Richard Busby ) as a technician.

This was the last straw for the Saint Thomas Christians, and in 1653 Thomas and community representatives met at the Church of Our Lady in Mattancherry to take bold action.

On 28 April 1653 the Great Fire of Marlborough started in a tanner's yard and spread quickly eventually after four hours burning the Guildhall, St Mary ’ s Church the County Armoury, and two hundred and forty four houses to the ground.

* Blessed Virgin Mary Church ( original German name: Marienkirche )-basilica built in gothic style in 1321, with sarcophagues of Dukes of Pomerania: Erik I, Elisabeth ( wife of last Duke of Pomerania Bogislaw XIV, died in 1653 ).

There are two domestic churches of the Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, the Church of the Twelve Apostles ( 1653 – 56 ) and the exquisite one-domed Church of the Deposition of the Virgin's Robe, built by Pskov artisans over the years 1484 – 88 and featuring superb icons and frescoes from 1627 and 1644.

In 1653 Louis became the organist of Church Saint-Gervais: when he died, he was succeeded by Charles, Charles was succeeded by his son, and so on ; the Couperins occupied the position for 173 years.

Raskol (,, meaning " split " or " schism ") was the event of splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement in mid-17th century, triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, aiming to establish uniformity between the Greek and Russian church practices.

One of his last commissions was the design of the Church of Saint-Roch, where the cornerstone was laid by Louis XIV in 1653.

For the first time in 1653 the Church leader was given the title Mar Thoma.

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford with Bachelor of Arts in 1653.

Sobieski's mother returned his body to his home, and to commemorate him she founded the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Żółkiew, which was built between 1653 and 1655.

* Mikhaylo-Arkhangelsky Monastery with the Cathedral of Archangel Michael ( 1653 — 1656 ), the Presentation Church ( 1653 ), the Gate Church of St. Vladimir ( 1682 ), and the Church of Mid-Pentacost ( 1710 ), the wall with towers and the cells