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

* 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 – 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.

* June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer ( b. 1657 )

* June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, composer ( born 1657 )

Thomas was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., " the scholar " ( 1647 – 1715 ) and Laetitia Corbin ( c. 1657 – 1706 ).

** Richard Lovelace, English poet ( d. c. 1657 )

He was imprisoned three times: in 1645 for an injudicious preface to his Golden Grove ; again in Chepstow castle, from May to October 1655, on what charge does not appear ; and a third time in the Tower in 1657, because of the indiscretion of his publisher, Richard Royston, who had decorated his Collection of Offices with a print representing Christ in the attitude of prayer.

* Lady Joan Boyle ( 1611 – 1657 ), fourth daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

Baltimore regained the colony in 1657 after signing a treaty with Virginia Governor Richard Bennet.

In 1657 it sold its old Armoury House in Spitalfield to a Master Gunner Richard Woolaston for £ 300.

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 ).

She was born October 27, 1904, in Fremont, Nebraska, the daughter of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendant of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

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.

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

* Sir Richard Parson, 3rd Baronet ( c. 1657 – 1703 ) ( created Viscount Rosse in 1681 )

* Richard Parsons, 1st Viscount Rosse ( c. 1657 – 1703 )

George Sandys was the uncle of Richard Lovelace ( 1618 – 1657 ), an English poet in the seventeenth century.

* Richard Lovelace ( 1618 – 1657 ), English poet and gentleman

Arthur's father, Thomas, was the son of Colonel Richard Lee II, Esq., known as “ Richard the Scholar ” ( 1647 – 1715 ) and Laetitia Corbin ( c. 1657 – 1706 ).

The first serious blow to Chambonnières's career was landed also in 1657, by the King, who engaged Étienne Richard as the royal harpsichord teacher, thereby injuring Chambonnières's pride and making his position at the court less secure.

In 1657 Richard Marshall assigned a tenement and farm holding in West Rainton to Marmaduke Allenson.

Portrait of Edward Cocker by Richard Gaywood, 1657