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3 giorni fa · Their activities between November 1655 and September 1656 had, however, reopened the wounds of the 1640s and deepened antipathies to the regime. In late 1654, Cromwell launched the Western Design armada against the Spanish West Indies , and in May 1655 captured Jamaica .
- Soldier and statesman
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- pre-1642 (militia service), 1642–1651 (civil war)
- Robert Cromwell (father), Elizabeth Steward (mother)
2 giorni fa · His expulsion from the Portuguese synagogue in 1656 has stirred debate over the years on whether he is the "first modern Jew". Spinoza influenced discussions of the so-called Jewish question, the examination of the idea of Judaism and the modern, secular Jew.
- Benedictus de Spinoza
5 giorni fa · The first invention of this type was the pendulum clock, which was designed and built by Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens in 1656. Early versions erred by less than one minute per day, and later ones only by 10 seconds, very accurate for their time.
3 giorni fa · Ed anche se la peste del 1656 decimò la sua popolazione alla fine del Seicento Napoli presentava un numero di abitanti maggiore che agli inizi del Cinquecento. Se Londra non fosse cresciuta nel corso del Seicento, nonostante l'incendio che l'aveva devastata, Napoli sarebbe stata, agli inizi del Settecento, non la terza, ma ancora dopo Parigi, la seconda città d'Europa per popolazione.»
5 giorni fa · Treaty of Vienna (1656) Second Northern War: 1st Habsburg–Polish alliance against Sweden: Treaty of Radnot: It envisaged a partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Transylvania enters the Second Northern War on the Swedish side Treaty of Butre (1656)
1 giorno fa · Following his father's release, Shivaji resumed raiding, and in 1656, under controversial circumstances, killed Chandrarao More, a fellow Maratha feudatory of Bijapur, and seized the valley of Javali, near the present-day hill station of Mahabaleshwar.
3 giorni fa · London was a 76-gun second-rate ship of the line in the Navy of the Commonwealth of England, originally 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 back to England during the English Restoration , carrying Charles' younger ...
