The years 1656, 1688 and 1694 represent sorrowful dates for Salerno: the plague and the earthquake which caused many victims.

The plague killed as many as half of the inhabitants of Genoa in 1656 – 57.

In 1656 a plague struck the city.

Ortelsburg suffered from 17th century fires and the plague in 1656.

Tatar invaders destroyed Augustów in 1656, and the second half of the 17th century saw the town afflicted by plague.

In 1656, a plague broke out in the city, killing a thousand inhabitants.

Thus it might be speculated that she died in the devastating plague that swept Naples in 1656 and virtually wiped out an entire generation of Neapolitan artists.

The Caravaggisti movement there ended with a terrible outbreak of plague in 1656, but at the time Naples was a possession of Spain and the influence of Caravaggism had already spread there.

In 1656, the population was reduced by war and plague to 382.

In 1656, a plague nearly eradicated the population of Naples, Italy.

His relics were translated to a new church in Licata, S. Maria del Carmine ; the ending of a plague in the Kingdom of Naples in 1656 was attributed to his intercession.

Later outbreaks of bubonic plague in Italy include the city of Florence in 1630 – 33 and the areas surrounding Naples, Rome and Genoa in 1656 – 57.

After a cultural and architectonic flourishing during the 17th century, under the aegis of the Counter-Reformation, Chieti was again shattered by plague in 1656.

In 1656, after suffering the ravages of plague, and raids from Spanish and Austrian troops, the population was reduced by half.

During the plague of 1656, 800 of 4, 000 inhabitants died because of the epidemic.

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.

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.

" The celebrated hemispheres experiment was, as noted in the biographical section above, carried out between July 1656 and August 1657.

The situation changed in early 1656, when anti-Swedish uprising broke out in southern Lesser Poland, quickly spreading across the country.

By late 1656, Swedish troops had been pushed out of most of the Commonwealth.

Gregorio Leti ( writing as Girolamo Lunadoro, in 1656 ) notes that the Camerlengo enjoys an income of 10, 000 to 12, 000 scudi a year out of the Apostolic Camera.

* The Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park, first laid out in 1656 by Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg as a nursery, later Berlin's Botanical Garden, which in 1910 moved to Dahlem.

*' The Foot out of the Snare ,' & c., 1656, 4to ( by John Toldervy, who had been a quaker ; part by Goodwin ).

His firm measures quelled the insubordinate spirit, and he took the vessel out to the West Indies, arriving in January 1656 on Jamaica where he became the subcommander of the naval flotilla there, until the summer of 1657.

A fire devastated the city in 1656.

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

The city, however, faced numerous invasions, including the siege by the Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648, the leader of the uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1648 – 1654 ) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state, and during the Swedish Deluge in 1656.

The court of King Narai ( 1656 – 88 ) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris.

In March 1656. after capturing the city of Jarosław, Ascheberg was promoted Colonel.

In 1656, due to the need for space as the city grew, the government decided to relocate Yoshiwara, and plans were made to move the district to its present location north of Asakusa on the outskirts of the city.

As a result the walls of the city were built in 1656 during the reign of Philip IV of Spain.

King Narai ( 1656 CE to 1688 CE ) not only held court in Ayutthaya but also from his palace in the nearby city of Lopburi, from where he ruled 8-9 months in the year.

* Battle of Warsaw ( 1656 ), battle outside the city on July 18-July 20, 1656, during The Deluge, following which Warsaw is captured by Swedes for the second time

The French army laid siege to the city in 1656 ( Vauban participated in this siege without a command ).

Thorpe Hall at Longthorpe in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire is a Grade I listed building, built by Peter Mills between 1653 and 1656, for the Lord Chief Justice, Oliver St John.

The city was occupied by a Swedish army in 1655 during the Second Northern War, replaced by Brandenburgians in 1656 ( the Swedes burned the suburbs when they left ).

He designed many other churches in the city, among them the Chiesa dell ' Ospedaletto and Santa Maria degli Scalzi built between 1656 and 1680, although the façade of the latter church was designed by Giuseppe Sardi.

* Rappahannock County ( 1656 – 1692 ) divided into Essex County and Richmond County ( not to be confused with the current capital city of the same name located elsewhere in Virginia ) ( also not to be confused with the current Rappahannock County, founded in 1833, located in the northwestern portion of the state )

The city was founded in 1656.

He devoted most of his life to researches among the archives of his native city, and in 1656 even obtained a licence to print his Paris ancien et moderne ; but on his death ( 21 March 1676 ) the whole work was still in manusript.

1656: Glasgow is described as a " flourishing city ", with " strong stone walls "

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.

He was given the command of Warsaw which he defended against the Polish army under John II Casimir of Poland until the city was given up 21 June 1656.