- 1656 in England
Events from the year
1656 in theThe Protectorate .Incumbents
*Lord Protector -
Oliver Cromwell Events
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2 April - Anglo-Spanish War: KingPhilip IV of Spain signs a treaty withCharles II of England for the reconquest of England.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1656.htm|title=1656, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-20]
*17 September
** theSecond Protectorate Parliament assembles.
**Miles Sindercombe makes a failed assassination attempt onOliver Cromwell .
* September - First Englishopera , "The Siege of Rhodes", performed atRutland House .cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 187-188|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*19 September - Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish treasure fleet nearCádiz .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=267]
*24 October -Quaker James Nayler re-enacts the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem atBristol , for which he is arrested forblasphemy .Ongoing events
* Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660
Publications
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James Harrington 's political tract "The Commonwealth of Oceana ".Births
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1 January -William Fleetwood , econmoist and statistician (died 1723)
*14 September - Thomas Baker, antiquarian (died 1746)
*29 October -Edmond Halley , scientist (died 1742)
*Thomas Bray , clergy (died 1730)
*Charles Davenant , economist (died 1714)
*Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (died 1722Deaths
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20 June -Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont , Royalist (born 1616)
*8 September - Joseph Hall, bishop and writer (born 1574)
*12 September -Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield , (born 1584)
* October -Stephen Bachiler , clergy (born c.1561)
* Robert Harley, statesman (born 1579)References
ee also
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