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

Fabricius was born at Leipzig, son of Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, who was the author of several works, the most important being Deliciae Harmonicae ( 1656 ).

Their first child was born there in 1656, but died in infancy ; a memorial tablet in the church shows their grief.

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 ).

In 1656, Runcorn was described as being " nothing but a fair parish church, a parsonage and a few scattered tenements ".

He also painted a large altarpiece ( 1656 ) for the church of Sant ' Andrea Cennano in Montevarchi.

In 1656, members left the First Baptist Church in Newport, the church of John Clarke & Obadiah Holmes, and formed a second Six-Principle Baptist Church.

The church was first built in the 13th century and was reconstructed between 1656 and 1763.

The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed " so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace " ( Norwich 1975 p 175 ).

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.

A barbican church of the same abbey dates back to 1656, and the city's cathedral was completed by 1676.

The writer Fredrick Mendis observed: ' In 1656, after the capitulation to the Dutch, the Milagiriya church gave way to a Sinhala school where instruction was made available in the religion of the Reformists.

* March 30 – Henry Hall, composer of church music ( born c. 1656 )

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.

The old parish church, traditionally known as the Church of Sea Captains, was built in 1656, and rebuilt in 1669 as the Parish Church of Shadwell.

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

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.

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.

Category: Populated places established in 1656

In 1653 a peace invitation was extended by the Onondaga Nation to New France and an expedition of Jesuits, led by Simon Le Moyne, established Sainte Marie de Ganentaa in 1656.

Category: Populated places established in 1656

One of the oldest manuscript preserved at the institute is Ayodhya Mahatmya written by Harishankar in 1656 AD, part of the original collection of over 10, 000 manuscripts of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, who first conceptualized the institute in 1893, inspired by the opening of the Oriental Research Institute Mysore in 1891, established by then Maharaja of Mysore Chamaraja Wodeyar, and a close friend.

* Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir, established in 1656 with a bird hospital established in 1929.

Category: Populated places established in 1656

By 1636 another paper mill had been established in the parish of West Wycombe and by 1656 another at Marsh, below Wycombe.

Shortly afterwards however, the town took a steep rise, when Duke Augustus, a scion of the Saxon House of Wettin, established the Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels in 1656 and chose Weißenfels as his residence.

Although twice imprisoned by the Commonwealth, he established contact with Cromwell ’ s secret service, led by John Thurloe, in 1656 or 1657, possibly for money ( in A Child's History of England, Ch. XXXIV, Charles Dickens wrote that Willis “ reported to Oliver everything that passed among them, and had two hundred a year for it ”).

In 1655, he established a private school in Kyoto, began his first lecture cycle in the spring of the same year, and finished it at the end of 1656.