1654
Events
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 succedes his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5 , Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism .
September 3 - In the Rump Parliament , the republican party question 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
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.
Twenty-three Jewish 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 Ukrainian Bogdan Chmielnicki renounces Ukrainian independence and swears allegiance to Tsar Alexis of Russia
The Russian Army seizes Smolensk , and war starts between Russia and Poland over Ukraine
Otto von Guericke proves the existence of atmospheric pressure
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