1656

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
July 30: Sweden recaptures the Polish capital of Warsaw
1656 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1656
MDCLVI
Ab urbe condita2409
Armenian calendar1105
ԹՎ ՌՃԵ
Assyrian calendar6406
Balinese saka calendar1577–1578
Bengali calendar1063
Berber calendar2606
English Regnal yearCha. 2 – 8 Cha. 2
(Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar2200
Burmese calendar1018
Byzantine calendar7164–7165
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4353 or 4146
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4354 or 4147
Coptic calendar1372–1373
Discordian calendar2822
Ethiopian calendar1648–1649
Hebrew calendar5416–5417
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1712–1713
 - Shaka Samvat1577–1578
 - Kali Yuga4756–4757
Holocene calendar11656
Igbo calendar656–657
Iranian calendar1034–1035
Islamic calendar1066–1067
Japanese calendarMeireki 2
(明暦2年)
Javanese calendar1578–1579
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3989
Minguo calendar256 before ROC
民前256年
Nanakshahi calendar188
Thai solar calendar2198–2199
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1782 or 1401 or 629
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1783 or 1402 or 630

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 of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 656th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1656, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Undated

Births

Duchess Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg
Jan Frans van Douven
Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark
Edmond Halley

Deaths

Jan van Goyen
John IV of Portugal

References

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