1656


{{year nav|1656}}{{C17YearInTopicX}}Year 1656 (MDCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1656

January - June

• April 28 - The ship Vergulde Draeck is wrecked off Ledge Point, Western Australia after it departs the Cape of Good Hope; rescue missions fail to find survivors.

July - December

• December - The pendulum clock is invented by Christiaan Huygens.

Undated

• Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
• Jews are readmitted to England by Oliver Cromwell.
• The Stockholm Banco, the first bank to issue banknotes, is founded.
• The only Fifty Shilling British coin is minted.
• Adams' Grammar School in Shropshire, England is founded by William Adams.
• The Dutch capture the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka.
• Konoike Zen'amon (son of Konoike Shinroku) founds a baking and money-changing business in Osaka.

Ongoing Events

• The Deluge (1648-1667)

Births

{{Year in other calendars}}

• June 5 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (d. 1708)
• July 7 - Guru Har Krishan, Eighth Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
• August 6 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
• September 6 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
• September 14 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (d. 1746)
• October 20 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
• October 29 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (d. 1742)
• date unknown
  • Patrick Abercromby, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. c. 1716)
  • Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (d. 1749)
  • Kateri Tekakwitha, a Native American beatified in the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1680)

Deaths

• March 21 - James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b. 1581)
• April 24 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• April 27 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
• June 9 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• July 2 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
• August 11 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
• September 8 - Joseph Hall (English Bishop and satirist), English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
• October - Stephen Bachiler, English clergyman (b. c. 1561)
• October 3 - Myles Standish, Mayflower colonist (b. c.1584)
• October 8 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
• November 6 - King John IV of Portugal (b. 1603)
• December 27 - Andrew White, Apostle of Maryland (b. 1579)

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