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1657 Calendar

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•  April 20, 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
•  December 27, 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.

•  February 11, 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757)
•  March 1, 1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
•  March 18, 1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743)
•  March 24, 1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
•  June 10, 1657 – James Craggs the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
•  July 11, 1657 – King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
•  August 18, 1657 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
•  September 27, 1657 – Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
•  October 4, 1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
•  November 26, 1657 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)