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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years:	1650 1651 1652 – 1653 – 1654 1655 1656

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Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed.

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January–June – Swiss peasant war.
February 2 – New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
February 3 – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.
March 14 – Battle of Leghorn: A Dutch fleet defeats the English; the Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds.
April 20 – Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament in England.
May 24 – Ferdinand IV is elected King of the Romans.
June 12–June 13 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Gabbard: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet, which loses 17 ships.

July 4 – The Barebones Parliament meets in London till December 12.
August 8–August 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces; The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet off the Texel.
November – John Casor flees Anthony Johnson's farm, sparking the legal basis for slavery in the United States.
December 16 – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

The first period of republican government (called the Commonwealth of England) ends. The Rump Parliament is disbanded by Oliver Cromwell (see also the Long Parliament and Southamptonshire).
Marcello Malpighi becomes a doctor of medicine.
Stephen Bachiler returns to England.
John Thurloe becomes the head of intelligence for Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate.
The Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed.
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg reconfirms the nobility's freedom from taxation and its unlimited control over the peasants.
The army prepares a constitution that invests executive power in a lord protector and a council of state in England.

January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
February 17 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
April 2 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1708)
May 8 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)
June 1 – Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704)
June 26 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV of France (d. 1743)
July 5 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
July 25 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
August 9 – John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
August 14 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
September 3 – Roger North, English lawyer and biographer (d. 1734)
October 18 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
date unknown
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (d. 1725)
- Rahman Baba, legendary Afghan Pashto Sufi poet (d. 1711)

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