* 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam ( later New York City ).

* Thierry Ruinart ( 1657 – 1709 )

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

That the curve followed by a chain is not a parabola was proven by Joachim Jungius ( 1587 – 1657 ); this result was published posthumously in 1669.

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.

* 1582 – Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1657 )

* 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters ( d. 1757 )

* Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1608 – 1657 )

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

* 1740 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian ( b. 1657 )

* 1657 – Frederick I of Prussia ( d. 1713 )

* 1704 – Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia ( b. 1657 )

* 1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian ( d. 1740 )

* 1721 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician ( b. 1657 )

* 1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician ( d. 1725 )

* 1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer ( d. 1743 )

The 2, 000 Tatar raiders who fought on the Polish side – before their return to Crimea – demolished most townships and caused the death of over 50 % of the population of southern Prussian region ( later Masuria ) within the years 1656 – 1657, taking 3, 400 people into slavery.

William Derham ( 1657 – 1735 ), was a friend and disciple of John Ray.

* 1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter ( d. 1747 )

Richard Lovelace ( 1618 – 1657 ) was an English poet in the seventeenth century.

** Robert Blake ( admiral ) ( 1599 – 1657 ), English Admiral

When Grand Admiral Topal Mehmed Pasha failed to break the Venetian blockade of the Dardanelles in July 17, 1657, Köprülü executed him and his principal officers on the spot.

British contemporaneous sources typically refer to him as Admiral Opdam or Lord Obdam because it was not until 1657 that he bought the Wassenaar Estate from relatives and thus acquired its title.

In 1657 Stuyvesant, who did not tolerate full religious freedom in the colony, and especially the presence of Quakers, ordered the public torture of Robert Hodgson, a 23-year-old Quaker convert who had become an influential preacher.

** Robert Blake, English admiral ( d. 1657 )

* Robert Blake ( admiral ) ( 1599 – 1657 ), English naval commander

Reading in 1657 of Otto von Guericke's air-pump, he set himself with the assistance of Robert Hooke to devise improvements in its construction, and with the result, the " machina Boyleana " or " Pneumatical Engine ", finished in 1659, he began a series of experiments on the properties of air.

At the Oxford Act of 1657, Robert South, who was Terrae filius, lampooned Fuller, whom he described in this Oratio as living in London, ever scribbling and each year bringing forth new folia like a tree.

Robert Blake, General at Sea, 1599 – 1657 by Henry Perronet Briggs, painted 1829.

Although the House survived as an official building — being used for the lying-in-state of Commonwealth Generals-at-Sea Richard Dean ( 1653 ) and Robert Blake ( 1657 )— the main palace was progressively demolished from the 1660s to 1690s and replaced by the Royal Hospital for Seamen, built 1696 – 1751 to the master-plan of Sir Christopher Wren.

* Robert Needham, 3rd Viscount Kilmorey ( d. 1657 )

* Lust's Dominion, or The Lascivious Queen ( presumably the same play as The Spanish Moor's Tragedy ), by Marston, Thomas Dekker, John Day, and William Haughton ( London: Printed for F. K. & sold by Robert Pollard, 1657 ).

In 1657, when the first Viscount died, Robert surrendered his peerage under the presumption that he was illegitimate ( which could not be proven beyond doubt ).

In 1656 and 1657 Robert Blake destroyed the fleet, but the Spaniards saved most of the silver on board and the English admiral only managed to capture a galleon.

The anchor escapement was probably invented by British scientist Robert Hooke around 1657, although some references credit clockmaker William Clement who popularized the anchor in his invention of the longcase or grandfather clock around 1680, and disputed credit for the escapement with Hooke.

Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the oldest child of Robert Hale, a blacksmith, he was educated at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating in 1657.

Today's brick Old State House was built in 1712 – 13, possibly designed by Robert Twelves ; the previous building, the wooden Town House of 1657, had burned in the fire of 1711.

* 1657 Robert Brabourne

Despite being penalised during and after the English Civil War for its royalist and Anglican tendencies the school survived and achieved somewhat of a revival under headmaster Robert Jennings ( 1657 – 1683 ).

The invention of the balance spring around 1657 by Robert Hook and Christian Huygens greatly increased the accuracy of portable timepieces, transforming early pocketwatches from expensive novelties to useful timekeepers.