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

Timișoara 1656 Nicolas Sanson map

This was noted on a 1656 New Jersey map by A. Vanderdonck, a Dutch surveyor and map maker.

The exact location of the village is debated ; F. Douglas Reville's " The History of the County of Brant ", published in 1920, reports that historians of his era located Kandoucho near the present-day city of Brantford, Ontario, and although verified by Sanson's map of 1656, modern archaeological scholarship rejects the accuracy of this document.

They include the Heiliges Grab of Görlitz, constructed between 1481 and 1504, and the New Jerusalem Monastery in Moscow Oblast, constructed by Patriarch Nikon between 1656 to 1666.

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.

Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert ( 1656 ), Guynaud ( 1693 ) and Bareste ( 1840 ), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th century French texts, or on pure invention.

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.

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.

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.

The following Dutch – Portuguese War resulted in Dutch victory, with Colombo falling into Dutch hands by 1656.

* Bernier, Francois, Travels in the Mogal Empire ( 1656 – 68 ), revised by V. A.

The next major taxonomic works were produced by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ( France, 1656 – 1708 ).

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

One such plot occurred in 1656 when a dozen Black men, led by William Force, a free Black man plotted to murder their English masters.

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.

His proposals, not published until 1656, after his death, as The Reduction of Episcopacy, proposed a compromise where bishops operated in a presbyterian synodal system, were initially designed to support a rapprochement between Charles and the parliamentarian leadership in 1641, but were rejected by the King.

* Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal ( 1656 )

Detail of Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez ( 1656 ), showing Maribarbola and Nicolasito Pertusato ( right ), achondroplastic dwarfs in the entourage of Infanta Margarita

He began to focus on an influential verse translation of the Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, which he completed in 1656.

Russian diplomat Ivan Chemodanov by Justus Sustermans, 1656

It was founded by Thomas Francis of Savoy, Prince di Carignano 21 December 1596-22 January 1656 ), an Italian military commander.

His eldest surviving son, Philip ( 1621 – 1669 ), became 5th Earl of Pembroke, and 2nd Earl of Montgomery ; he was twice married, and was succeeded in turn by three of his sons, of whom Thomas, the 8th Earl ( c. 1656 – 1733 ), was a person of note during the reigns of William III and Anne.

* 1656: La Didone by Andrea Mattioli

It was occupied by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester in 1656 and later by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon.

* 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( d. 1733 )

* 1723 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman ( b. 1656 )

* 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist ( d. 1656 )

* 1733 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( b. 1656 )

* 1611 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander ( d. 1656 )

* August 15 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer ( b. 1656 )

* November 1 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander ( d. 1656 )

* May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist ( b. 1656 )

* August 10 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman ( b. 1656 )

* March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter ( b. 1656 )

* March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( b. 1656 )

** Mathieu Molé, French statesman ( d. 1656 )

* December 28 – Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist ( b. 1656 )

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.

In 1656, Père du Tertre from Guadeloupe visited Carriacou and he was the first French / European person ( turtle Fisherman ) to visit Carriacou.

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

In 1656, he married Robina French née Cromwell, youngest sister of Oliver Cromwell, who had been widowed in 1655 when her husband Peter French, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, had died.

Mathieu Molé ( 1584 – 3 January 1656 ) was a French statesman.

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.

In 1655 French armies gained more ground, but in 1656 Turenne suffered a serious defeat at Valenciennes, and though the causes of the defeat had been largely outside his control, he again showed his ability to recover from an outcome that would have overwhelmed lesser generals.

* was a 22-gun ship captured from the French in 1650 and expended as a fireship in 1656.