His first play in the French language, Les Engagements du hasard, was probably first performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1647, although not published until 1656.

It is a capital example of Girardon's work, and the theatrical pomp of its style is typical of the funeral sculpture of the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV ; but amongst other important specimens yet remaining may also be cited the Tomb of Louvois ( St Eustache ), that of Bignon, the king's librarian, executed in 1656 ( St Nicolas du Chardonneret ), and decorative sculptures in the Galerie d ' Apollon and Chambre du roi in the Louvre.

* Le Laboreur ( 1656 ), Histoire du maréchal de Guébriant

He is also the author of several theological and ascetic treatises like De nova doctrina dissertatio seu Evangelium Jansenistarum ( Paris, 1656 ); L ' esprit du christianisme ( Paris, 1672 ); La perfection du christianisme ( Paris, 1673 ); La foi des derniers siècles ( Paris, 1679 ).

A historian from Slesvig, Ulrik Petersen ( 1656 – 1735 ), wrote in the late 17th century that the flag hung in Slesvig cathedral till about 1660 until it simply crumbled away, thus ending its more than 400-year-old story.

After Fox was released from Launceston gaol in 1656, he preached throughout the West Country.

This period gave way to the highly significant Köprülü Era ( 1656 – 1703 ), during which effective control of the Empire was exercised by a sequence of Grand Viziers from the Köprülü family.

On 15 September 1656 the octogenarian Köprülü Mehmed Pasha accepted the seals of office having received guarantees from the Valide Turhan Hatice of unprecedented authority and freedom from interference.

Alexander VII confirmed that they were too, by the bull Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem ( 16 October 1656 ) declaring that five propositions extracted by a group of theologians from the Sorbonne out of Jansen's work, mostly concerning grace and the fallen nature of man, were heretical, including the proposition according to which to say " that Christ died, or shed His blood for all men " would be a semipelagian error.

By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.

The expulsion, which was not reversed until 1656, followed a precedent set by other European territorial princes: Philip II of France had expelled all Jews from his own lands in 1182 ; John I, Duke of Brittany, drove them out of his duchy in 1239 ; and in the late 1240s Louis IX of France had expelled the Jews from the royal demesne before his first passage to the East.

From April 1656, the prince received daily instruction in the Reformed religion from the Calvinist preacher Cornelis Trigland, a follower of the Contra-Remonstrant theologian Gisbertus Voetius.

Robert Nares defined the word hoax as meaning " to cheat ", dating from Thomas Ady's 1656 book A candle in the dark, or a treatise on the nature of witches and witchcraft.

The Jansenist apologia Provincial Letters, written 1656 and 1657, a literary masterpiece written from a Jansenist perspective, and remembered for denunciation of the casuistry of the Jesuits.

The pope responded with the bull Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem ( dated October 16, 1656 ) in which he stated " We declare and define that the five propositions have been drawn from the book of Jansenius entitled Augustinus, and that they have been condemned in the sense of the same Jansenius and we once more condemn them as such.

1685 reprint of a 1656 map of the Dutch North American colonies showing extent of Dutch claims, from Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna River in the South and West, to Narragansett Bay and the Providence-Blackstone Rivers in the East, to the St. Lawrence River in the North

Thomas Francis of Savoy ( Italian Tommaso Francesco di Savoia, Principe di Carignano, French Thomas François de Savoie, Prince de Carignan ; 21 December 1596 – 22 January 1656 ) was an Italian military commander, the founder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy which reigned as kings of Sardinia from 1831 to 1861, and as kings of Italy from 1861 until the dynasty's deposition in 1946.

A first Rappahannock County was founded 1656 from part of Lancaster County, and became extinct in 1692 when it was separated to form Essex County and Richmond County.

On May 15, 1656, the Court of the Colony of Connecticut in Hartford affirmed that the town of Stratford included all of the territory inland from Long Island Sound, between the Housatonic River and the Fairfield town line, to include the southern portion of present-day Monroe.

Jesuits made missionary visits from 1656 to 1684.

The word homology, coined in about 1656, derives from the Greek homologos, where homo

According to Thomas Blount in his 1656 dictionary " Glossographia ", the origin of the word " Revels " is the French word " reveiller ", to wake from sleep.

John IV (, ; 18 March 1603 – 6 November 1656 ) was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1640 to his death.

The Evangelical Church of Peace, a UNESCO Heritage site, was built from 1656 – 57.

Zurich's forces lay a fruitless siege of Rapperswil, while Catholic forces separated Zurich from Bern, beating the Bernese at the First Battle of Villmergen on 24 January 1656.

In June 1656 Sexby visited England in disguise to assess the situation.

On 23 September 1656, Fox visited Nayler in his prison at Exeter ; when the prisoner refused to kiss his hand, Fox pushed his foot toward him, " It is my foot.

He became a member of the Theatine House of Parma in 1656 and apparently visited Prague and Lisbon before publishing his play La Pietà trionfante in Messina in 1660, where he was a lecturer in mathematics.

While negotiating with the English Presbyterians for the restoration of Charles, he visited England twice, in 1654 and 1656.

In 1656, it was reissued in what was for Catholics an even more objectionable form.

Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1656 and a master's degree in 1658.

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656 ) was a Dutch landscape painter.

This wooden statue of Quan Âm Nghìn Mắt Nghìn Tay ( Quan Am with 1000 eyes and 1000 hands ) was fashioned in 1656 in Bắc Ninh Province, northern Vietnam.

One wall of the great tower, various parts of the outer bailey and the battlements were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian William Dugdale, who published his results in 1656.

In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.

In 1656 he was made a reader at Bologna, and then a professor of physics at Pisa, where he began to abandon the disputative method of learning and apply himself to a more experimental method of research.

This life ( not as acceptable in those days as it would become in later years ) and her opinions on organized religion caused her some trouble, and she was imprisoned in the Madelonnettes Convent in 1656 at the behest of Anne of Austria, Queen of France and regent for her son Louis XIV.

The Sultanate of women ( 1648 – 1656 ) was a period in which the political influence of the Imperial Harem was dominant, as the mothers of young sultans exercised power on behalf of their sons.

He was born at Forfar in 1656 apparently of a Roman Catholic family.

From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use.

The pendulum clock was invented in 1656 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, and patented the following year.

Stephen Bachiler ( c. 1561 – 1656 ) was an English clergyman who was an early proponent of the separation of church and state in America.

He died near London, and was buried at All Hallows Staining on October 31, 1656.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

Year 1656 ( MDCLVI ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Tequila was first produced in the 16th century near the location of the city of Tequila, which was not officially established until 1656.

The early colonisation was precarious: in 1656 Carib Indians invaded and destroyed the settlements, and in 1666 the island was captured by French forces.