* 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar ( d. 1653 )

* 1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman ( b. 1653 )

* 1653 – Georg Muffat, French composer ( d. 1704 )

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

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.

The French Jansenists professed that the propositions condemned in 1653 were not in fact to be found in Augustinus, written by Cornelius Jansen.

Marshal Villars ( 1653 – 1734 ) rescued the French fortunes in the War of the Spanish Succession.

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

* April 15 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar ( d. 1653 )

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.

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

* Théophraste Renaudot ( 1586 – 1653 ), medical practitioner, inventor of French written press, journalist, philanthropist

* March 5-Charles Le Gobien, French Jesuit writer ( born 1653 )

Claudius Salmasius is the Latin name of Claude Saumaise ( April 15, 1588-September 3, 1653 ), a French classical scholar.

* was a 48-gun ship launched in 1653, completely rebuilt in 1693, captured by the French in April 1709, recaptured two weeks later and sunk.

As W. H. Lewis, he published seven books on France during the reign of Louis XIV, including The Splendid Century: Some Aspects of French Life in the Reign of Louis XIV and Levantine Adventurer: The travels and missions of the Chevalier d ' Arvieux, 1653 – 1697.

* Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu ( 1582 – 1653 ), a French Carthusian, bishop and Cardina

The need to control trade routes, monopolies, and slavery, which lay primarily in the hands of the French during the 17th century, created an almost endless cycle of wars between the colonial powers: the French religious wars, the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 and 1648 ), Franco – Spanish War ( 1653 ), the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 1678 ), and so on.

The French missionary Raymond Breton, who arrived in the Lesser Antilles in 1635, and lived on Guadeloupe and Dominica until 1653, took ethnographic and linguistic notes of the native peoples of these islands, including St Vincent which he visited only briefly.

François Pétis de la Croix ( 1653 – 1713 ) was a French orientalist.

In November 1653, another 140 French arrived to enlarge the settlement.

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.

Cromwell was given the title Lord Protector in 1653, making him ' king in all but name ' to his critics.

A king in exile: Charles II painted by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1653

Upon Mazarin's return, Fouquet demanded and received as reward the office of superintendent of the finances ( 1653 ), a position which, in the unsettled condition of the government, threw into his hands not merely the decision as to which funds should be applied to meet the demands of the state's creditors, but also the negotiations with the great financiers who lent money to the king.

Salvi's libretto originated with Pierre Corneille's play Pertharite, roi des Lombards ( 1653 ), based on the history of Perctarit, king of the Lombards in the 7th century.

* Ferdinand IV of Germany ( 1633 – 1654, king of the Romans from 1653, of Bohemia from 1646, of Hungary from 1647 )

After the death of both king and cardinal, the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) secured universal acceptance of Germany's political and religious fragmentation, but the Regency of Anne of Austria and her minister Cardinal Mazarin experienced a civil uprising known as the Fronde ( 1648 – 1653 ) which expanded into a Franco-Spanish War ( 1653 – 1659 ).

When the tomb of Childeric I, an early Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and father of Clovis I was discovered in 1653 ( May 27 ) by a mason doing repairs in the church of Saint-Brice in Tournai, it was Leopold Wilhelm who had the find published in Latin.

After the death of both king and cardinal, the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) secured universal acceptance of Germany's political and religious fragmentation, but the Regency of Anne of Austria and her minister Cardinal Mazarin experienced a civil uprising known as the Fronde ( 1648 – 1653 ) which expanded into a Franco-Spanish War ( 1653 – 1659 ).

In 1653, the Customs House was moved further down the Telemarksvassdraget from Skien to Porsgrunn mainly because industrial waste such as sawdust and mud made the river too shallow to allow boats to go any further up the river.

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.

Protest, open rebellion and a further petition to Oliver Cromwell in London, led in 1653 to the reinstatement of the original charter.

In the Alte Pinakothek at Munich is a celebrated work of 1653 in which creepers mingle beautifully with gourds, blackberries, orange, myrtle and peach, and further enlivened with butterflies, moths and beetles.

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.

In July 1653 at an unknown location, perhaps still in County Galway, he added further material, along with a separate index to the book's list of Saint's pedigrees.

He married, secondly, his first cousin Katherine Fraser ( daughter of Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat, on 30 June 1653 and had further children.

In 1653, a convention of two deputies from each village in New Netherland demanded reforms, and Stuyvesant commanded that assembly to disperse, saying: " We derive our authority from God and the company, not from a few ignorant subjects.

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 ".

*' Thirty Queries ,' & c., 1653 ( Jackson ; on the magistrate's authority in religion ).

In 1653, the whole of Scotland became under the authority the Prefecture Apostolic of Scotland, which in 1694 was elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of Scotland.

When they came to know that Mar Ahatalla was drowned carried off, they could not tolerate the imperious Portuguese and their arbitrary actions ; they assembled in thousands around a big granite cross, the Coonen Kurish ( Leaning Cross ) in the Mattanchery parish church grounds near Cochin on January 16, 1653 and took an oath to submit no longer to the ecclesiastical authority of Rome and to obey none save their Archdeacon Thomas until they get a bishop from the Eastern Church.