In the year 1656, the first Jewish doctor in the Thirteen Colonies of America, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland (Jan 24), the Dutch capture the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, marking the start of Dutch Ceylon (May 12), the pendulum clock is invented by Christiaan Huygens (Dec), the Stockholm Banco, the first bank to issue banknotes, is founded in Stockholm, Sweden – and all these fine people were born:
1656-xxxx Petronella Oortman* Dutch dollhouse enthusiast - Amsterdam (1716/60)
1656-xxxx Kateri Tekakwitha* (b) Algonquin–Mohawk laywoman/Catholic Saint as “Lily of the Mohawks” - Ossemenon, New York (1680/24)
1656-0102 Paolo Panelli* Italian painter/active in Verona – (1759/103)
1656-0202 Alida Schuyler* influential Dutch businesswoman - Beverwyck, Province of New York, New Netherlands (1727/71)
1656-0209 Rose Venerini* canonized pioneer in the education of women and girls in 17th-century Italy – Viterbo, Papal States (1728/72)
1656-0310 Giacomo Serpotta* sculptor - Palermo, Sicily (1732/75)
1656-0326 Nicolaas Hartsoeker* Dutch mathematician/physicist – Gouda, Holland (1725/69)
1656-04xx Malin Mikintytär Saukko** (b Saarijärvi) mother of Elias Kaaponpoika Saukko - Saarijärvi farm, Alavus, Sweden-Finland (c. 1740/84)
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1656-0409 Francesco Trevisani* Italian painter - Capodistria, Istria (1746/90)
1656-0410 René Lepage de Sainte-Claire* the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, Quebec - Ouanne, Burgundy, Kingdom of France (1718/62)
1656-0417 William Molyneux* writer on science, politics and natural philosophy – Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland (1698/42)
1656-0551 Marin Marais* composer/viol player – Paris, Kingdom of France (1728/72)
1656-0605 Joseph Pitton de Tournefort* botanist/ the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants – Aix-en-Provence, Kingdom of France (1708/52)
1656-0617 Paul Thymich* German poet - Großenhain, Saxony – 16(1694/c.)
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1656-0715 Gerard Langbaine* dramatic biographer/critic – Oxford, England (1692/35)
1656-0720 Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach* (b Fischer) Austrian architect/ sculptor/architectural historian - Graz (1723/66)
1656-0812 Claude de Visdelou* Jesuit missionary – Trébry, Kingdom of France (1737/81)
1656-0816 Christian Knaut* German physician/botanist/librarian - Halle (1716/59)
1656-0911 Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark* Queen of Sweden – Copenhagen, Denmark (1693/36)
1656-0914 Thomas Baker* antiquarian - Lanchester, Durham, England (1740/83)
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1656-1002 Hendrik Carré* painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1721/64)
1656-1010 Nicolas de Largillière* portrait painter – Paris, France (1746/89)
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1656-1108 Edmond Halley* astronomer/ geophysicist/meteorologist – Haggerston, Middlesex, England (1742/85)
1656-1211 Johann Michael Rottmayr* Austrian painter – Laufen an der Salzach, Bavaria (1730/73)
1656-1229 Johann Conrad Vogel* German organ builder - Schwabach (1721/64)
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Updated 18.4.2023-1
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