* 1653 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Duke of Villars, French general, Marshal General of France ( d. 1734 )

The Governor General of the French Caribbean colonies then subsequently mounted an attack on the island at his own expense and drove out the Spanish, but he was unable to establish a colony, and surrendered the title to the island to the Grand Master of the Order of Malta in 1653.

Richard Deane, 1610 – 1 June 1653, General at Sea by Robert Walker ( painter ) | Robert Walker, painted c. 1653.

Richard Deane ( 1610 – 1653 ), English General at Sea, major-general and regicide, was a younger son of Edward Deane of Temple Guiting or Guyting in Gloucestershire, where he was born, his baptism taking place on 8 July 1610.

The naval Battle of Portland, or Three Days ' Battle took place during 28 February-2 March 1653 ( Old style ), during the First Anglo-Dutch War, when the fleet of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake was attacked by a fleet of the Dutch Republic under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp escorting merchant shipping through the English Channel.

After their victory at the Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653, the English fleet of 120 ships under General at Sea George Monck blockaded the Dutch coast, capturing many merchant vessels.

He was born of the Finnish noble family Horn of Kankas, and was appointed member of the Royal Council in 1625, Field Marshal in 1628, Governor General of Livonia in 1652 and Lord High Constable since 1653.

* Claude Louis Hector, Duke of Villars ( 1653 – 1734 ), Marshal of France in 1702, Marshal General of France in 1733

The two best-known herbals in English were The Herball or General History of Plants ( 1597 ) by John Gerard and The English Physician Enlarged ( 1653 ) by Nicholas Culpeper.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun ( 8 May 1653 – 17 June 1734 ) was the last great general of Louis XIV of France and one of the most brilliant commanders in French military history, one of only six Marshals who have been promoted to Marshal General of France.

As admiral and General at Sea for Parliament he helped in 1653 to draw up the first code of tactics provided for the navy.

Richard Deane, 1610 – 1653, General at Sea by Robert Walker ( painter ), painted c. 1653

The first modern war correspondent is said to be Dutch painter Willem van de Velde, who in 1653 took to sea in a small boat to observe a naval battle between the Dutch and the English, of which he made many sketches on the spot, which he later developed into one big drawing that he added to a report he wrote to the States General.

* Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal General of France, lived 1653 – 1734, born in Moulins

* Richard Deane ( regicide ) ( 1610 – 1653 ), English General at Sea, major-general and regicide

* 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

Glencairn then led an insurrection in the Highlands in 1653 ( See: Royalist rising of 1651 to 1654 ) in favour of King Charles II, when General Monk had possession of Scotland.

1653: General Assembly broken up by English forces

Denied a divorce by the Massachusetts Court, Bachiler finally returned to England about 1653.

He was formally appointed a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, one of the three principal Westminster courts, on 31 January 1653, on the condition that he " would not be required to acknowledge the usurper's authority ".

In August 1653 another debate took place in Parliament, lasting two days, in which a paper titled " Observations concerning the Court of Chancery " was circulated ; this concerned the costs, workings, and officers of the Court.

Their house, Sayes Court ( adjacent to the naval dockyard ), was purchased by Evelyn from his father-in-law Sir Richard Browne in 1653 and Evelyn soon began to transform the gardens.

* The Court Secret ( printed 1653 ).

In 1653 another collection was published by Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson ; titled Six New Plays, the volume included The Brothers, The Sisters, The Doubtful Heir, The Imposture, The Cardinal, and The Court Secret.

* The Court Beggar,? 1640, printed 1653

The 1653 edition, published by Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, contains A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Demoiselle.

The last organised Irish troops surrendered in Cavan in April 1653, when the Cromwellians agreed to let them be transported to serve in the French army – the English Royalist Court was in exile in France.

When Cromwell became Lord Protector in 1653, Rushworth was promoted to Registrar of the Court of Admiralty.

In August 1653, O ' Neill was executed, in accordance with the verdict of a High Court set up in Dublin by the Cromwellian government.

John Greaves ) A Description of the Grand Signour ’ s Seraglio ; or Turkish Emperours Court ( 1653 ) London: Printed for Jo.

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.

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.

* 1649 – 1653 Aaron Guerdon

Even at their blasphemy trial in 1653, The Recorder of London, after examining John Reeve, turns to Muggleton and says, " Let Aaron speak ".

At the end of Greenhill's term in 1653, Fort St George was elevated to a Presidency, independent of Bantam and under the leadership of first President Aaron Baker.

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

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.

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, 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.