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

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.

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.

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.

* 1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.

The first recorded town meeting was held in 1656 in the home of settler John Osgood in what is now the town of North Andover.

Oates unwisely claimed to have met Don John in Madrid ; when questioned closely by Charles II, who had met Don John in 1656, it became clear that Oates had no idea what he looked like, confirming the King's suspicion that the Plot was an invention.

Only two convoys were captured ; one in 1628 when it was captured by the Dutch, and another in 1656, captured by the English, but by then the convoys were a shadow of what they had been at their peak at the end of the previous century.

In 1656, freshly released from imprisonment, Davenant turned a room of the house into what was, at first, a private theatre performing his own plays.

In the two Battles of Villmergen in 1656 and 1712 the Freie Ämter became the staging ground for the warring Reformed and Catholic armies.

In Provincial Letters ( 1656 – 7 ) he scolded the Jesuits for using casuistic reasoning in confession to placate wealthy Church donors, while punishing poor penitents.

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.

Patrick Abercromby ( 1656 – c. 1716 ), Scottish physician and antiquarian, noted for being physician to King James VII ( II of England ) and his fervent opposition to the Act of Union between Scotland and England.

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 Edict remained in effect for the rest of the Middle Ages, and it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned under Oliver Cromwell in 1656.

However, in less than a year he returned with his unit to the Polish side, and after April 1656, he again fought for the Polish king.

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

Thomas Fincke ( 6 January 1561 – 24 April 1656 ) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.

" However, there is an opposing viewpoint which holds that it was named for the book Oceana, written by James Harrington in 1656.

Myles Standish ( c. 1584 – October 3, 1656 ; sometimes spelled Miles Standish ) was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony.

* James Dewey, MP for Dorset 1656, and Wareham 1659

A Second Protectorate Parliament was called on 17 September 1656, which wrote a constitution titled Humble Petition and Advice that called for the creation of an Upper House to perform the job of the former House of Lords.

He exchanged theology for law, however, and was called to the bar on December 4, 1656.

Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi ( 1656 – 1718 ) known as the Chacham Tzvi, for some time rabbi of Amsterdam, was a resolute opponent of the followers of Sabbatai Zevi.

During the Northern Wars in 1655, he declared his support for the Protestant Swedish side, for which Polish partisans burned his house, his manuscripts, and the school's printing press in 1656.

In Paris, the gantiers became gantiers parfumeurs, for the scented oils, musk, ambergris and civet, that perfumed leather gloves, but their trade, which was an introduction at the court of Catherine de Medici, was not specifically recognised until 1656, in a royal brevet.

Many of his best-known hymns were originally published in various church hymnbooks, as for example in that for Brandenburg, which appeared in 1658 ; others first saw the light in Johann Crüger's Geistliche Kirchenmelodien ( 1649 ) and Praxis pietatis melica ( 1656 ).