1653

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
December 16 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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.