What is 1654?
{{Year nav|1654}} {{Year in various calendars|1654}} {{Year article header|1654}} == Events == * [[April 5]] – Signing of the [[1654 Treaty of Westminster|Treaty of Westminster]], ending the [[First Anglo-Dutch War]]. * [[June 3]] – [[Louis XIV of France]] crowned at [[Rheims]] * [[June 6]] – [[Charles X of Sweden|Charles X]] succeeds his cousin [[Christina of Sweden|Christina]] to the [[Sweden|Swedish]] throne. After her abdication on [[June 5]], Christina now the former reigning queen of a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] nation, secretly converts to [[Catholicism]]. * [[September 3]] – In the [[Rump Parliament]], the republican party questions [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell's]] pre-eminence * [[September 12]] – [[Oliver Cromwell]] orders the exclusion of the members of [[Parliament]] who are hostile to him. * [[October 12]] – [[Carel Fabritius]], the most promising student of [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]], dies aged 32 in an explosion at the arsenal at [[Delft]]. The [[Delft Explosion]] devastates the city in the [[Netherlands]], killing more than 100. * [[October 31]] – [[Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria]] is crowned. His [[Political absolutism|absolutistic]] style of leadership becomes a benchmark for the rest of [[Germany]] * [[November 23]] – French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher [[Blaise Pascal]] experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life. * Death of An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn, last inaugurated King of [[Connacht]] (inaugurated [[1643]] * Twenty-three [[Jew]]ish refugees from [[Brazil]] settle in [[New Amsterdam]], forming the nucleus of what would be the largest urban Jewish community in history, the Jewish community of [[New York City]]. *The [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Bogdan Chmielnicki]] renounces Ukrainian independence and swears allegiance to [[Aleksey I of Russia|Tsar Alexis]] of Russia *The Russian Army seizes [[Smolensk]], and war starts between [[Russia]] and [[Poland]] over [[Ukraine]] * [[Otto von Guericke]] proves the existence of