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Year 1654 (''' MDCLIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1654

January - June

April 5 - Signing of the Treaty Of Westminster , ending the First Anglo-Dutch War .

June 3 - Louis XIV Of France crowned at Rheims

June 6 - Charles X succeeds his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne . After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism .

July - December

July 10 - Peter Vowell and John Gerard executed for plotting to assassinate Oliver Cromwell

September 3 - In the Rump Parliament , the republican party questions Cromwell's pre-eminence

September 12 - Oliver Cromwell orders the exclusion of the members of Parliament who are hostile to him.

October 12 - Carel Fabritius , the most promising student of Rembrandt , dies aged 32 in an explosion at the arsenal at Delft . The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands , killing more than 100.

October 31 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector Of Bavaria is crowned. His Absolutistic style of leadership becomes a benchmark for the rest of Germany

November 23 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.

Undated

Death of An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn, last inaugurated King of Connacht (inaugurated 1643 ).

Twenty-three Jew ish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam , forming the nucleus of what would be the largest urban Jewish community in history, the Jewish community of New York City .

The Russian Army seizes Smolensk , and Thirteen Years War starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine .

Otto Von Guericke proves the existence of Atmospheric Pressure .

The Magdeburg Hemispheres are noted.

The Treaty Of Pereyaslav was concluded in the city of Pereyaslav during the meeting between the Cossacks of the Zaporizhian Host and Tsar Alexey I of Muscovy, following the Khmelnytsky rebellion.

BIRTHS

January 10 - Joshua Barnes , English scholar (d. 1712 )

January 22 - Richard Blackmore , English physician and writer (d. 1729 )

March 16 - Andreas Acoluthus , German orientalist (d. 1704 )

May 4 - Emperor Kangxi Of China (d. 1722 )

June 23 - Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow , English politician (d. 1717 )

July 9 - Emperor Reigen Of Japan (d. 1732 )

November 23 - George Watson (accountant) , a Scottish accountant and the founder of George Watson's College in Edinburgh , first of many successful bankers in Edinburgh.

December 27 - Jakob Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and scientist (d. 1705 )

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DEATHS

January 17 - Paulus Potter , Dutch painter (b. 1625 )

February 18 - Jean-Louis Guez De Balzac , French writer (b. 1594 )

March 24 - Samuel Scheidt , German composer (b. 1587 )

June 10 - Alessandro Algardi , Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1598 )

July 9 - Ferdinand IV Of Germany (b. 1633 )

August 28 - Axel Oxenstierna , Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583 )

August 31 - Ole Worm , Danish physician and antiquary (b. 1588 )

September 7 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller , Bohemian rabbi and liturgical poet (b. 1579 )

October 12 - Carel Fabritius , Dutch artist (b. 1622 )

October 30 - Emperor Go-Komyo Of Japan (b. 1633 )

November 30 - John Selden , English jurist (b. 1584 )

December 5 - Jean François Sarrazin , French writer

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