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Historical Events for the Year 1657. 2nd March » Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days. 20th April » Admiral Robert Blake (admiral) called Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1657) or Battle of Santa Cruz ...
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October: England passes the Navigation Act that forbids goods to be imported from the colonies to England in non-English ships or from locations other than where they were produced. This action causes supply shortages hurting colonies and eventually leads to the Anglo-Dutch War, which lasts from 1652–1654.
April 4: New Amsterdam is given permission to form its own city government. May 18: Rhode Island passes the first law in America which prohibits enslavement, but is never enforced. After the death of Maine's founder Ferdinando Gorges ( c. 1565–1647), the Massachusetts Bay Colonyrevises its borders to the Penobscot Bay, absorbing the growing colony ...
The New England Confederation—a union of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies formed in 1643—plans to help England in the ongoing Anglo-Dutch Wars. The Massachusetts Bay colony flatly refuses to participate.
The first Jewish immigrants arrive from Brazil and settle in New Amsterdam. October: The new governor of Maryland, William Fuller (1625–1695), nullifies the 1649 Toleration Act which gave Catholics the right to practice their religion. The colony also removes Lord Baltimorefrom authority.
March 25: The Battle of the Severn, considered by some historians the last battle of the English Civil War, is fought in Annapolis, Maryland, between Puritan loyalists and moderate protestant and Catholic forces loyal to Baltimore; the Puritans take the day. Sept. 1:After a last maritime battle between the Dutch colonists led by Peter Stuyvesant (1...
July 10: Lord Baltimore is returned to power in Maryland and appoints Josias Fendall (1628–1687) as the new governor. The first Quakers, Anne Austin and Mary Fisher, arrive in Massachusetts Bay from their colony in Barbados and are arrested and imprisoned. Later in the year, Connecticutand Massachusetts pass laws to allow for the banishment of Quak...
Quakers who arrive in New Amsterdam are punished and then banished to Rhode Island by Governor Peter Stuyvesant.
September: Massachusetts colony passes laws that do not allow for religious freedom of Quakers including the holding of their meetings. Quaker Mary Dyer (1611–1660) is arrested in New Haven and convicted for preaching Quakerism and is among those banished to Rhode Island.
Two Quakers are punished by hanging when they return to the Massachusetts Bay Colony after being banished.
Lord Baltimore is removed from power by the Maryland assembly. The Navigation Act of 1660is passed requiring only English ships with a three-quarters English crew be allowed to be used for trade. Certain goods including sugar and tobacco could only be shipped to England or English colonies.
Events January–March. January 8 – Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London and are arrested. January 29 – Rule of the Major-Generals (regional military government) in England is abolished.
Dec ember. Highlights. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Major Events. Mar 31 English Parliament makes the Humble Petition and Advice to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines. Flushing Remonstrance. Dec 27 "Flushing Remonstrance" petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, protesting the ban on Quaker worship.
15 de marzo: Un terremoto de 8,3 sacude la costa de Concepción produciendo un tsunami que deja 40 fallecidos. William Harvey descubre la circulación de la sangre. Invención del reloj de péndulo por Christian Huygens. Gran incendio de Edo ( Tokio ), en el cual mueren más de 100 000 personas.
1657 – Jews allowed to become burghers of New Amsterdam. Flushing Remonstrance lays groundwork for religious freedom in America. 1658 – Death of Oliver Cromwell
