1656 (MDCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1656th year...

Plague was an epidemic of plague in the Kingdom of Naples, lasting from 1656 to 1658. The epidemic affected mostly Central Italy and Southern Italy, killing...

The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies. Along with the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367), it...

events. 1655: William Dugdale - Monasticon Anglicanum begins publication. 1656: William Dugdale - Antiquities of Warwickshire. 1658: Thomas Browne - Hydriotaphia...

Sir Robert Harley KB (baptised 1 March 1579 – 6 November 1656) was an English statesman who served as Master of the Mint for Charles I. A devout Puritan...

The year 1656 in science and technology involved some significant events. Christiaan Huygens discovers that Saturn's planetary rings consist of rocks....

1656 Suomi (prov. designation: 1942 EC) is a binary Hungaria asteroid and sizable Mars-crosser from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt. It was...

built at Chatham Dockyard by shipwright John Taylor, and launched in June 1656. She gained fame as one of the ships that escorted Charles II from Holland...

1656 in philosophy Blaise Pascal writes the first of his Lettres provinciales. Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam. James...

Pier Donato Cesi, iuniore (1583 – 30 January 1656) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal. He is sometimes referred to as Pier Donato Cesi, iuniore (junior)...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656. April 25 – In London, the Council of State, usually busy with larger matters...

Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676). 1656 The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed. The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica...

tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in June 1656 the fortress came under a siege by voevoda Potyomkin which lasted until November 1656 with no success. In 1702, during...

forces marched on Swedish Livonia and besieged Riga in the Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658), a theater of the Second Northern War. Khmelnytsky was not against...

September 7, 1656, Transylvania and the Zaporizhian Sich signed a peace treaty, which obliged both sides to help each other in war. On December 8, 1656, the Treaty...

military action by the English against the Spanish city of Málaga on 21 July 1656 as part of the Anglo–Spanish War (1654–1660). Five English ships, HMS Henry...

started construction of a new wall with 12 bastions around suburbs, but by 1656 the work had not been completed. The Russian vanguard consisting of the Vladimir...

The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1656 kHz: VAC Chinese Radio in Brisbane, Queensland. Radio Rhythm in Melbourne, Victoria. 2ME Radio...

1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 … In literature 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 Art Archaeology...

The Battle of Cádiz (1656) was an operation in the Anglo–Spanish War (1654–1660) in which an English fleet destroyed or captured the ships of a Spanish...

Australia Suomi KP/-31, a Finnish submachine gun Suomi NPP, a weather satellite 1656 Suomi, a Mars-crossing asteroid All pages with titles containing Suomi Suomalaiset...

doctrines, leading to his permanent expulsion from the Jewish community in 1656. Following his excommunication, he distanced himself from all religious affiliations...

Dardanelles in the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War took place on 26 and 27 June 1656 inside the Dardanelles Strait. The battle was a clear victory for Venice...

Peter's Square, Rome, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1656–1667 Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656–1667 The first building in Rome to have a...

vid Warschau) took place near Warsaw on July 28–July 30 [O.S. July 18–20] 1656, between the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden and...

William Richardson (1656–1727) was an Irish politician. He was the son of Major Edward Richardson of Legacorry (aka Richhill Castle), County Armagh, MP...

Events from the year 1656 in France. Monarch: Louis XIV April 10 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, lord-founder of Rimouski in eastern Quebec, Canada (d...

Thomas Gage (c. 1603 – 1656) was an English Dominican friar, best known for his travel writing on New Spain and Central America during a sojourn there...

The Battle of Valenciennes was fought on 16 July 1656 between the Spanish troops commanded by John Joseph of Austria and the French troops under Henri...

(US: /ˌdʒɛntiˈlɛski/, Italian: [arteˈmiːzja dʒentiˈleski]; 8 July 1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most...