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Year 1653 (MDCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1653

January - June

February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
March 14 - A Dutch fleet defeats the English at the Battle of Leghorn. The Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds.
April 20 - Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament.
May 24 - Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans.
June 12 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard - lasted until June 13.

July - December

July 4 - The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12.

August 8-10 - Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces; English naval victory over Dutch fleet off the Texel.

December 16 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Undated

End of the first period of republican government called the Commonwealth of England. The Rump Parliament was disbanded by Oliver Cromwell. See also the Long Parliament and Southamptonshire.

Marcello Malpighi becomes a doctor of medicine.

Stephen Bachiler returns to England.

John Thurloe becomes the head of intelligence for Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate.

The Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed.

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg reconfirms the nobility's freedom from taxation and its unlimited control over the peasants.

The army prepares a constitution that invests executive power in a lord protector and a council of state in England.

Births

January 13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)

February 17 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (died 1713)

April 2 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (died 1708)

May 8 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (died 1734)

June 1 - Georg Muffat, French composer (died 1704)

June 26 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (died 1743)

July 5 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (died 1726)

July 25 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (died 1728)

August 9 - John Oldham, English poet (died 1683)

August 14 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (died 1688)

September 3 - Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (died 1734)

October 18 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1713)

date unknown - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (died 1725)

date unknown - Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (died 1711) � See also .

Deaths

March 23 - Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (born 1604)

March 24 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (born 1587)

May 26 - Robert Filmer, English writer (born 1588)

July 10 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)

July 31 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1576)

August 10 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1598)

October 3 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (born 1612)

Artemesia Gentileschi, Roman artist. � See also .

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