* 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.

* 1653 – At the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.

Fearing their ultra-radical ideas, which crystallised in an attack on tithes, the conservative faction led by Major-General John Lambert, supported by the use of troops to deny access to the radical factions, engineered a vote for the dissolution of the assembly, which was passed on 12 December 1653.

John Alden's House, now a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1653 and is open to the public as a museum.

* John Brown ( Wales MP ) ( died c. 1654 ), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653

* February – John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, English diplomat ( d. 1653 )

* November 4 – John Benbow, English admiral ( b. 1653 )

** John Oldham, English poet ( smallpox ) ( b. 1653 )

* John Hampden ( 1653-1696 ) ( 1653 – 1696 ), English politician, pamphleteer, and opponent of Charles II and James II, convicted of treason after the Monmouth Rebellion

* John Kennedy, 7th Earl of Cassilis ( 1653 – 1701 ), Scottish peer

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

In 1653, The General Court granted of meadowland to Lieutenant Aaron Cook, to John Bissell and to Thomas Ford, all in Massacoe.

In 1653, John Gallup Jr., was given approximately midway up the east part of the Mystic River.

Quincy was also home to the first iron furnace in the United States, the John Winthrop, Jr. Iron Furnace Site ( also known as Braintree Furnace ), from 1644 to 1653.

* John Williams ( Wales MP ), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1653

* Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Eltham ( 1653 – 1723 ), MP for Herefordshire, 1701 – 1705

* John Taylor ( poet ) ( 1578 – 1653 ), English poet

John and Mary Evelyn had eight children: Richard ( 1652 – 1658 ), John Standsfield ( 1653 – 1654 ), John ( the younger ) ( 1655 – 1699 ), George ( 1657 – 1658 ), Richard ii ( 1664 ), Mary ( 1665 – 1685 ), Elizabeth ( 1667 – 1685 ) and Susanna ( 1669 – 1754 ).

During his Oxford years he wrote Justitia Divina ( 1653 ), an exposition of the dogma that God cannot forgive sin without an atonement ; Communion with God ( 1657 ), Doctrine of the Saints ' Perseverance ( 1654 ), his final attack on Arminianism ; Vindiciae Evangelicae, a treatise written by order of the Council of State against Socinianism as expounded by John Biddle ; On the Mortification of Sin in Believers ( 1656 ), an introspective and analytic work ; Schism ( 1657 ), one of the most readable of all his writings ; Of Temptation ( 1658 ), an attempt to recall Puritanism to its cardinal spiritual attitude from the jarring anarchy of sectarianism and the pharisaism which had followed on popularity and threatened to destroy the early simplicity.

John Taylor ( 24 August 1578 – 1653 ) was an English poet who dubbed himself " The Water Poet ".

* Bernard Capp, The World of John Taylor the Water-Poet, 1578 – 1653 ( Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994 ) – the first full-length biography.

The earliest English poetical treatise on Angling by John Dennys, said to have been a fishing companion of Shakespeare, was published in 1613, The Secrets of Angling, of which 6 verses were quoted in the better known book Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler ( 1653 ), of which the latter two chapters were actually written by his friend Charles Cotton, and described the fishing in the Derbyshire Wye.

* December 7-John Oldham, poet ( born 1653 )

John Oldham ( August 9, 1653 – December 9, 1683 ) was an English satirical poet and translator.

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

A gold Unite ( English coin ) | Unite from 1653.

* 1653 – Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician ( d. 1726 )

* 1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer ( b. 1588 )

* October 6 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman ( b. 1653 )

** Robert Filmer, English political writer ( d. 1653 )

* February 26 – Thomas d ' Urfey, English writer ( b. 1653 )

* March 1 – Roger North, English biographer ( b. 1653 )

" ( Sir Thomas Urquhart's 1653 English translation ).

In the Treaty of Hartford, the border of New Netherland was retracted to western Connecticut and by 1653, the English had overtaken the Dutch trading post.

This division of forces left Blake with only 42 men of war by November, while the Dutch were making every effort to reinforce their fleet, and this led to an English defeat by Tromp in the Battle of Dungeness in December but didn't save the English Mediterranean fleet, largely destroyed at the Battle of Leghorn in March 1653.

By February 1653 the English were ready to challenge the Dutch, and in the three-day Battle of Portland in March they drove them out of The Channel.

The Battle of the Gabbard, 12 June 1653 by Heerman Witmont, shows the Dutch flagship Dutch ship Brederode | Brederode, right, in action with the English ship Resolution, the temporary name during the Commonwealth of HMS Prince Royal.

The Dutch were also victorious in March 1653 at the Battle of Leghorn near Italy and had gained effective control of both the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

Blake, recovering from an injury, rethought, together with George Monck, the whole system of naval tactics, and after the winter of 1653 used the line of battle, first to drive the Dutch navy out of the English Channel in the Battle of Portland and then out of the North Sea in the Battle of the Gabbard.