* 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

* 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.

The Flushing Remonstrance signed by colonists in 1657 is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

Jacques Abbadie was born at Nay, Béarn, probably in 1654, although 1657 and 1658 have been given ; he is " most probably the Jacques Abbadie who was the third child of Violente de Fortaner and Pierre Abbadie, baptized on 27 April 1654.

Both tribes were conquered and assimilated by their hostile eastern neighbors, the Iroquois Confederacy between A. D. 1651 and 1657, in what is referred to as part of the Beaver Wars.

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The oldest known Huygens style pendulum clock is dated 1657 and can be seen at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden which also shows an important astronomical clock owned and used by Huygens.

The town is called Andegavum Angers on this 1657 engraving

Governor Kieft's War of 1643 to 1645, the Esopus War of 1655 to 1660, and the Peach War of 1655 to 1657 would have prevented colonization of New Netherland, which today is called Hunterdon County.

Jesuit Barnabé de Cobo ( 1582 – 1657 ), who explored Mexico and Peru, is credited with taking cinchona bark to Europe.

Originally called Wahatquenak by the local Lenni Lenape Native Americans, the Maurice River is said to be named for a local legend, in which a Dutch ship on the river, the Prince Maurice, was sunk by the local Native Americans in 1657.

** The earliest life of Liburne is The Self-Afflicter lively Described, 8vo, 1657 ;

To its left is the former Lebzelterhaus, which dates back to 1657 and which nowadays is a pharmacy.

His long epic Clovis ( 1657 ) is noteworthy because Desmarets rejected the traditional pagan background, and maintained that Christian imagery should supplant it.

The campaign of 1657 was uneventful, and is only to be remembered because a body of 6, 000 English infantry, sent by Cromwell in pursuance of his treaty of alliance with Mazarin, took part in it.

In 1655 Monck received a letter from the future Charles II, a copy of which he at once sent to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, who is said to have written to Monck in 1657: " There be that tell me that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland called George Monck, who is said to lye in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart ; I pray you, use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.

According to Abbé Faillon, Charles Le Moyne, lord of the area starting in 1657, named Longueuil after a village which is today the seat of a canton in the district of Dieppe in his homeland of Normandy.

Though Jean Riolan ( 1577 – 1657 ) contradicted these comments and accused Vesalius of ungratitude, it is certain that the frustrations that Vesalius experienced were the basis for which he later traveled to Padua and became a famous anatomist himself.

Another example is the Japanese prohibition of female acting in 1625, then the prohibition of young male actors in 1657, that create " Onnagata " which is the ground of Japanese theatrical tradition.

The first translation printed was that of Pierre Du Ryer ( 1657 ), but it is mediocre and incomplete.

Anthony Metcalfe, son of George, subsequently sold the manor in 1657 to Richard Trotter ( a relative is Neville Trotter ).

In 1657, the Commons granted Cromwell even greater powers, some of which were reminiscent of those enjoyed by monarchs.

Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.

In 1657, New Amsterdam granted religious toleration to Jews.

It was incorporated by Oliver Cromwell in 1657 ( reissued as a Royal Charter in 1663 ) and was granted livery status in 1713.

In 1525 Easington reverted to the Crown, which granted the manor to John Croke of Chilton Manor, in whose family it seems to have stayed until at least 1657.

In 1657 New Utrecht was granted status as a village and received its charter in 1661, when the entire region was part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Soon after Menasseh left London Cromwell granted him a pension, but he died before he could enjoy it, at Middelburg in the Netherlands in the winter of 1657 ( 14 Kislev 5418 ), as he was conveying the body of his son Samuel home for burial.

In 1657, the first group of Dutch East India Company employees gained " free burgher " ( free citizen ) status and were granted land along the river in the area now known as Rondebosch.

In 1657 Olier, shortly before his death, sent four priests ( Gabriel de Queylus, Souart, d ' Allet, and Galinier ) to take over from the Jesuit Fathers .< ref > Francis Parkman, < cite > La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West </ cite >, France and England in North America 3, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1980 ), 10 .</ ref > As the new feudal lords of Montréal, the society granted easy terms to settlers.

Architectural historian Abbott Lowell Cummings, in his Architecture in Colonial Massachusetts, concludes that the right-hand side of today's house was built for John Pickering, Sr., a carpenter, before his death in 1657 upon land granted to him in 1637.