WHAT HAPPENED IN 1657.
Look what happened the 1657.

Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days (2. March 1657)

Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. (20. April 1657)

Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). (20. April 1657)

Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War. (30. October 1657)

The Flushing Remonstrance is signed. (27. December 1657)

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