History
1651
General
Population: 547 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include William Cartwright (poems), John Cleveland (poems), William Davenant (romantic epic poem), John Donne Essays in Divinity (posthumous),
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan (defense of monarchy), Jeremy Taylor Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying,
Division of publisher and printer begins in book trade
Paulus Potter "Landscape with Cows", Rembrandt "Girl with a Broom", Tenierss "Village Feast"
- Religion: Calderon becomes a priest
- Science: Giovanni Riccioli introduces his map of the moon
Harvey publishes regarding slow growth of embryos, and all animal life begins as eggs
- Deaths: Composer Heinrich Albert
Africa
- South Africa: Dutch settle at Cape of Good Hope
Asia
- Japan: Yetuna the new shogun overcomes two rebellions in Edo
Boys prohibited from acting in kabuki theater
Europe
- England: End of English Civil War
English Navigation Act direted against the Dutch gives English ships monopoly of foreign trade
England's Navigation Act leads to 1st Anglo-Dutch war - England gains virtual monopoly of foreign trade and demands all imports carried by English ships
Battle of Worcester, Charles II invades England with Scottish army – defeated in battle of Worchester and escapes to France
- France: Louis XIV gains majority in France
Young King Louis XIV of France appears as a dancer in a court ballet
Mazarin's library closed by order of Parlement
Parliament votes for release of Conde the Fronde leader – Mazarin forced to leave Paris – Queen forced to ally herself with the Fronde against him
- Holy Roman Empire: First public "Comedy-house" in Vienna
- Russia: Treaty between Czar Alexis I and the Cossacks
- Scotland: Charles II crowned King of Scots – flees to France
General
- Navigation acts established, restricting exports from America