Year by year · 17th century
1653
1653 in world history: 7 events, 2 births, 7 deaths, 2 works and 1 state founded. 1,134 recorded states existed that year.
Events
New Amsterdam receives municipal government
The Dutch settlement on Manhattan was granted its own city government under Director-General Peter Stuyvesant. The English seized it in 1664 and renamed it New York.
Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
Cromwell entered the Commons with musketeers and expelled the remaining members. The act paved the way for his rule as Lord Protector later that year.
Treaty
Treaty of Stettin (1653)
The Treaty of Stettin of May 1653 between Sweden and Brandenburg fixed the border in Pomerania after the Peace of Westphalia had divided the former duchy.
Revolt
Swiss peasant war of 1653
The Swiss peasant war of 1653 was a revolt of the rural subjects of Lucerne, Bern, Solothurn and Basel against their patrician city governments, set off by a devaluation of the currency and falling prices after the Thirty Years' War.
Wars and longer events
Born in 1653 2
Died in 1653 7
Works 2
States founded 1
Great speeches
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