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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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

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

The Russo-Swedish War of 1656–1658, known as the War of Rupture, was fought by Russia and Sweden as a theater of the Second Northern War. It took place...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

0.014497 Heliocentric radial velocity 4315 km/s Distance 154.0 Mly (47.21 Mpc) Characteristics Type SA0−: Other designations MCG -01-02-016, PGC 1656...

John Lawton (1656–1736) was an English Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of William Lawton of Lawton, Cheshire. He was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme...

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...

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...

their work, which the second Protectorate parliament—instated in September 1656—voted down for fear of a permanent military state. Ultimately, however, Cromwell's...

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June 11 A royal decree by king Frederick III of Denmark issued 17 December 1656, ordered that loan repayments and payments of interests should take place...

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...

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

January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific Irish...

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

the universe, the cosmos. The term cosmology was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's Glossographia, and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German...

countries of the era. Jews were permitted to re-establish settlement as of 1656, in the interregnum which was a peak of anti-Catholicism. Most Jews in Great...

William Richardson (1656–1727) was an Irish politician in Ireland. He was the son of Major Edward Richardson of Legacorry, who was William's father, (aka...