1656 (MDCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1656th year...
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The year 1656 in science and technology involved some significant events. Christiaan Huygens discovers that Saturn's planetary rings consist of rocks....
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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656. April 25 – In London, the Council of State, usually busy with larger matters...
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1650s in architecture (redirect from 1656 in architecture)
Castle in Sweden to the design of Caspar Vogel begins (completed 1676). 1656 The Jama Masjid, Delhi, is completed. The colonnade of St. Peter's Basilica...
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1650s in archaeology (redirect from 1656 in archaeology)
events. 1655: William Dugdale - Monasticon Anglicanum begins publication. 1656: William Dugdale - Antiquities of Warwickshire. 1658: Thomas Browne - Hydriotaphia...
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Coma Cluster (redirect from Abell 1656)
The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies. Along with the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367), it...
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Plague was an epidemic of plague in the Kingdom of Naples, lasting from 1656 to 1658. The epidemic affected mostly Central Italy and Southern Italy, killing...
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built at Chatham Dockyard by shipwright John Taylor, and launched in June 1656. She gained fame as one of the ships that escorted Charles II from Holland...
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Shlisselburg (redirect from Siege of Nöteborg (1656))
tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in June 1656 the fortress came under a siege by voevoda Potyomkin which lasted until November 1656 with no success. In 1702, during...
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