* October 3, 1653 ( Jōō 2, 12th day of the 8th month ): Emperor Go-Kōmyō died of smallpox ; and his funeral ceremonies were at on the 15th day of the 10th month.

A new plan of municipal government was arranged in the Netherlands, and the name " New Amsterdam " was officially declared on 2 February 1653.

* February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar ( d. 1653 )

Gabriel Naudé ( 2 February 1600 – 10 July 1653 ) was a French librarian and scholar.

The naval Battle of the Gabbard, also known as the Battle of Gabbard Bank, the Battle of the North Foreland or the second Battle of Nieuwpoort took place on 2 – 3 June 1653 according to the Old Style of Julian calendar then used in England ( 12 – 13 June 1653 New Style ) during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the Gabbard shoal off the coast of Suffolk, England between fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces.

On 2 June 1653 the Dutch attacked but were beaten back because the English employed line-of-battle tactics, making the Dutch pay a high price for attempting to board.

* February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar ( died 1653 )

Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland (, 2 April 1653 – 28 October 1708 ) was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain.

In 1473 Suttons held the land as tenants and the land passed to John Gaydon ( 1490 ), Thomas Boules ( 1653 ), Richard Talbot ( 1679 ), John White ( 1691 ), Robert Delap ( 1717 ) and Dublin Banker Hugh Henry who purchased the house for £ 2, 200 in 1731.

Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine () ( 24 November 1615 – 2 September 1690 ) was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to 1690, Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1653 to 1679 and Elector of the Palatinate from 1685 to 1690.

* The Battle of the Gabbard, June 2 to June 3, 1653, in the First Anglo-Dutch War.

On February 2, 1653, the town of New Amsterdam, founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1625, was incorporated as a city under a charter issued by the Dutch West India Company.

* William Ballantine ( appointed 13 October 1653 – died 2 September 1661 )

The third day of fighting in the Battle of Portland in 1653 took place off Beachy Head during the First Anglo-Dutch War.

On June 20, 1653 the Nuremberg town council issued the following order: " Where experience herefore have shown, that after the old heathen use, on John's day in every year, in the country, as well in towns as villages, money and wood have been gathered by young folk, and there upon the so-called sonnenwendt or zimmet fire kindled, and thereat winebibbing, dancing about the said fire, leaping over the same, with burning of sundry herbs and flowers, and setting of brands from the said fire in the fields, and in many other ways all manner of superstitious work carried on --- Therefore the Hon.

Starting in the early 1650s, he began selling and leasing his property to Dutch colonists, among them Jacob Haie ( Hay ) in 1653, who built a home in northern Greenpoint that was burned down by Indians two years later .< sup ></ sup > The Hay property and other holdings came into the possession of Pieter Praa, a captain in the local militia, who established a farm near present day Freeman Street and McGuinness Boulevard, and went on to own most of Greenpoint.

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 ).

* The third day of fighting in the Battle of Portland, 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, took place off Beachy Head between fleets of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake and the United Provinces under Admiral Maarten Tromp

* John Hay, 8th Lord Hay of Yester ( 1593 – 1653 ) ( created Earl of Tweeddale in 1646 )

The son of John Murray, 1st Earl of Atholl ( cr. 1629 ) by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, he was, in 1653, a chief supporter of the 8th Earl of Glencairn's rising to power in opposition to English plans to incorporate Scotland into the Commonwealth and devoted 2000 men to the battle.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

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 ):

* 1653 Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ): Farther Pomerania becomes Brandenburg-Prussia's Province of Pomerania

In 1602, the troops of Gergely Németh put on fire the remaining houses of the town, therefore, in 1602 the reconstruction of the fortress was started further the advice of mayor Tamás Borsos, but it was actually built between 1614 and 1653.

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.

Founded by Count Frederick of Wied in 1653, Neuwied was located near the village of Langendorf, destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

During the rebuilding of the town after the Great Fire of Marlborough in 1653 which destroyed almost the entire town, the high street became what is often claimed to be the widest in England though the actual widest is in Stockton-on-Tees.

Baillie was twice married, firstly to Lilias Fleming, of the family of Cardarroch, by whom he had a large number of children, but only five survived him ; she died in June 1653.

The barmasters ' accounts for 1653 show that the ore from the Brassington, Middleton and Wirksworth liberties, all low producers at the time, consisted of small amounts mined by a large number of names.

In 1653 Emperor Shah Jahan sent a large expedition under his eldest son, Dara-Shikoh, to regain Kandahar but in vain.

Kolberg, with most of Farther Pomerania, was granted to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia and, after the signing of the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), was part of the Province of Pomerania.

Another historic part filled by Amyraut was in the negotiations originated by Pierre le Gouz de la Berchère ( 1600 – 1653 ), first president of the parlement of Grenoble, when exiled to Saumur, for a reconciliation and reunion of the Catholics of France with the French Protestants.

From 1653 it was the seat of the highest court for that part of Sweden.

Occupied by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years ' War, the city was granted to Brandenburg-Prussia after the Treaty of Westphalia ( 1648 ) and the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), and with all of Farther Pomerania became part of the Brandenburgian Pomerania.

The descent of the land held by him cannot be clearly traced: but his name long remained attached to part of it ; and, as late as the year 1653, a parliamentary grant of the Abbey or Chapter lands describes " the common field at Paddington " as being " near a place commonly called Baynard's Watering.

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

In 1653, Freetown was settled at Assonet Bay by members of the Plymouth Colony, as part of Freeman's Purchase, which included the northern part of what is now Fall River.

In 1653 Deane was with Blake in command at the Battle of Portland and later took the most prominent and active part in the refitting of the fleet on the reorganisation of the naval service.

The whole Duchy of Pomerania was under Swedish control already since the Treaty of Stettin ( 1630 ), and in the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ) Sweden and Brandenburg agreed on the final terms of the partition of the duchy, with Sweden keeping the western part ( Western Pomerania, Vorpommern ) including Stettin.

The Tamagawa Josui, an artificial waterway completed in 1653 to divert water from the Tama River and carry it as drinking water to Edo, begins in what is now part of Hamura.

* Downloadable PDf files of part of 1653 edition of the work

After the death of the last Pomeranian Duke in 1637 and by the Treaty of Westphalia the town became part of the Brandenburg-Prussian province of Pomerania following the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) and the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), along within the rest of Farther Pomerania.

The ceded part of Kuusamo had an area of 1653 square kilometers and included the villages Paanajärvi, Tavajärvi, Vatajärvi, Enojärvi, Pukari and Kenttikylä.

The rulings of the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) and the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ) assigned Kolbatz to Brandenburg, which later became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Gell was imprisoned in the Tower of London but released in 1653 on grounds of ill health ; he took no further part in politics during the Commonwealth period.

From 1653 to the 19th century, Nha Trang was a deserted area rich in wildlife ( animals like tigers ) and was a part of Hà Bạc, Vĩnh Xương County, Diên Khánh Province.

He took a leading part in Parliament: he was elected to Parliament for Cornwall in 1604 and 1656 ; for Truro 1626, 1640 ( twice ) and 1654 ; for Tregony 1628 ; and for Devon 1653.

Mazarin attempted to win him over in vain, but in 1653 he made his submission to the victorious minister, and from that time on played no part in public life.

Once part of the District of Kyle, a historic sub-region of Ayrshire, the parish of Stair was created in 1653 at the request of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair who arranged for the severance of a part of Ochiltree to form a new parish.

Frederick Louis of Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (), Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck ( 6 April 1653 – 7 March 1728 ) was born in Beck ( now part of Löhne, North Rhine-Westphalia ).

From 13 February 1649 to 1651 Hutchinson was a member of the first two Councils of State of the Commonwealth, but he took no very active part in public affairs, and with the expulsion of the Long parliament in 1653 retired altogether into private life.