Although the House survived as an official building — being used for the lying-in-state of Commonwealth Generals-at-Sea Richard Dean ( 1653 ) and Robert Blake ( 1657 )— the main palace was progressively demolished from the 1660s to 1690s and replaced by the Royal Hospital for Seamen, built 1696 – 1751 to the master-plan of Sir Christopher Wren.

Rather, the word blue was used in the 17th century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed them, particularly in blue-stocking, a reference to Oliver Cromwell's supporters in the parliament of 1653.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

Between 1653 – 1659 it was known as the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

The Commonwealth ( 1649 – 53 ) was founded on the execution of Charles I in 1649, and was followed by the two Protectorates of Oliver Cromwell ( 1653 – 58 ), and his son Richard Cromwell the first ( 1658 – 59 ).

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

This assembly, which met from July until December 1653, was the high water mark of Fifth Monarchist influence on national politics.

Fearing their ultra-radical ideas, which crystallised in an attack on tithes, the conservative faction led by Major-General John Lambert, supported by the use of troops to deny access to the radical factions, engineered a vote for the dissolution of the assembly, which was passed on 12 December 1653.

Fox remained at Swarthmoor until summer 1653 then left for Carlisle where he was arrested again for blasphemy.

Cromwell was given the title Lord Protector in 1653, making him ' king in all but name ' to his critics.

France was hit by civil unrest known as the Fronde which in turn evolved into the Franco-Spanish War in 1653.

Hugh Binning ( 1627 – 1653 ) was a Scottish philosopher.

He held many college offices, becoming successively lecturer in Greek ( 1651 ), mathematics ( 1653 ), and humanity ( 1655 ), praelector ( 1657 ), junior dean ( 1657 ), and college steward ( 1659 and 1660 ); and according to the habit of the time, he was accustomed to preach in his college chapel and also at Great St Mary's, long before he took holy orders on 23 December 1660.

John Alden's House, now a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1653 and is open to the public as a museum.

Kolberg, with most of Farther Pomerania, was granted to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia and, after the signing of the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), was part of the Province of Pomerania.

The Long Parliament which Oliver Cromwell had dispersed in 1653 was once more summoned to assemble, by a declaration from the council of officers dated on 6 May 1659.

Another historic part filled by Amyraut was in the negotiations originated by Pierre le Gouz de la Berchère ( 1600 – 1653 ), first president of the parlement of Grenoble, when exiled to Saumur, for a reconciliation and reunion of the Catholics of France with the French Protestants.

Among the greatest discoveries of lost objects was the 1653 accidental uncovering of Childeric I's tomb in the church of Saint Brice in Tournai.

Arcangelo Corelli ( 1653 – 1713 ) was considered a pioneer in transforming the violin from an ensemble instrument to a solo instrument.

In 1653, however, Cromwell became Lord Protector, and the Council was reduced to between thirteen and twenty-one members, all elected by the Commons.

The most important of his doctrinal decisions was his condemnation of five disputed Jansenist propositions, in his Papal Bull, Cum occasione issued, 31 May 1653.

A new plan of municipal government was arranged in the Netherlands, and the name " New Amsterdam " was officially declared on 2 February 1653.

He was made King of Bohemia in 1646, King of Hungary in 1647 ( coronation took place on June 16 in Pressburg ) and was elected King of the Romans ( future ruler of the Holy Roman Empire ) on 31 May 1653, and crowned at Ratisbon ( Regensburg ) on 18 June of the same year.

He was nominated MP for Huntingdonshire in 1653 for the Barebones Parliament and was elected MP for Huntingdonshire in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament.

In 1646, Trevor was elected Member of Parliament for Flintshire in the Long Parliament and sat until the Barebones Parliament of 1653.

He took a leading part in Parliament: he was elected to Parliament for Cornwall in 1604 and 1656 ; for Truro 1626, 1640 ( twice ) and 1654 ; for Tregony 1628 ; and for Devon 1653.

George Booth was nominated to the Barebones Parliament for Cheshire in 1653 and was elected MP for Cheshire in the First Protectorate Parliament in 1654 and in the Second Protectorate Parliament in 1656.

* Robert Holmes ( Gloucestershire MP ) elected in 1653

Anderson wrote two books, Reports of Many Principal Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, in the Common Bench 1644 and Resolutions and Judgments on the Cases and Matters Agitated in All the Courts of Westminster, in the latter end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1653, which are still today very influential legal references.

From 1651 to 1653, he held the office of secretary of the Commercial College of Sweden.

Hoar, as he thenceforth called himself, graduated at Harvard College in 1650, and in 1653 returned to England, where he became a preacher.

After attending school at Caster, Lincolnshire, he became in 1653 a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, matriculating on 23 July, when his name is written Whitbie.

He was the seventh Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin between 1653 and 1660.

" From 1645 to 1653 he was master of Emmanuel and then from 1653 to 1661 Master of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Before 1900, England had none of these except for the civil registration of births, marriages, and burials briefly attempted under the Commonwealth ( 1653 – 1660 ) and an even more short-lived initiative of the same kind in 1694 in connection with the attempt to raise a tax on the occasion of every birth, marriage, and death — paupers excepted.

Nevertheless Lawes continued his work as a composer, and the famous collection of his vocal pieces, Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, was published in 1653 and followed by two other books under the same title in 1655 and 1658 respectively.

On June 20, 1653 the Nuremberg town council issued the following order: " Where experience herefore have shown, that after the old heathen use, on John's day in every year, in the country, as well in towns as villages, money and wood have been gathered by young folk, and there upon the so-called sonnenwendt or zimmet fire kindled, and thereat winebibbing, dancing about the said fire, leaping over the same, with burning of sundry herbs and flowers, and setting of brands from the said fire in the fields, and in many other ways all manner of superstitious work carried on --- Therefore the Hon.

During the second half of the 17th century, German composers started pairing preludes ( or sometimes toccatas ) with fugues in the same key ; Johann Pachelbel ( c. 1653 – 1706 ) was one of the first to do so, although Johann Sebastian Bach's ( 1685 – 1750 ) " prelude and fugue " pieces are much more numerous and well-known today.

The same year he was sent to Bordeaux to support the Fronde rebellion but achieved little ; he returned to England in August 1653.

In February of the same year Danvers was given a seat on the council of state, which he retained till the council's dissolution in 1653.

* Radziwiłł Palace in Vilnius-It is likely that Mikołaj " the Black "' s wooden Vilnius mansion was on the same site, but the current building was constructed by the order of Janusz from 1635 until 1653.