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Events
- JANUARY 23: Blaise Pascal begins with the writing of Les Provinciates, a series of letters to his friend Antoine Arnauld jansen matic. Since the publication of which is illegal, he denounces some methods of the Jesuits, such as casuistry. On March 24, 1657 Pascal finished his work. By Pascal's polemics and his rhetorical style include the letters of the most important literary works of that era. The letters were read and discussed in the literary salons. They belong to the early Enlightenment, due to their anti-church thrust. Louis XIV had forbid the letters in 1660 and burned at the stake. But by that time they had already been translated into various languages, and thus they influenced later thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau decisively.
- February 19: World premiere of the musical drama Orontea by Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck.
- APRIL 25: In London, employs the City Council, which normally is content only with larger matter, exceptionally with censorship individual books and instructed the Lord Mayor of London as issued by John Philip Title Sportive Wit, or the Muses ' Merriment due to his scandalous, lascivious scurrilous and profane content " to burn.
- 09 May: The British State Council shall order the destruction of all copies of Choice Drollery, Songs, and Sonnets.
- July 13: World premiere of the drama Theti by Antonio Bertali at the Hofburg in Vienna.
- November 12: John Milton married Katherine Woodcock.
- July 27: Baruch de Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.
- September: Premiere of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I by Sir William Davenant, the first English opera.
- November 12: John Milton married Katherine Woodcock.
- Two drama books published in 1656: The Careless Shepherdess and The Old Law contained the first game of the first list or catalog of all the plays listed previously in England.
New releases
Prose
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Comical History of the States and the kingdom of the moon
- Adam OLEARIUS - Increased Newe Description The Muscowitischen and Persian Reyse So by occasion of a Holstein embassy to the Russian Zaar and king of Persia happen
Drama
- Thomas Corneille - Timocrate
- Robert Cox - John Swabber the Seaman
- Thomas Dekker & John Ford - The Sun 's Darling
- Thomas Goffe - Three Excellent Tragedies; The Careless Shepherdess
- Sir William Lower - Horatius
- Thomas Middleton, William Rowley & Philip Massinger - The Old Law
- Molière - Le dépit amoureux
- Walter Montague - The Accomplished Woman
- Edmund Prestwich - The Hectors, or the False Challenge
Poetry
- Pierre Corneille - L' Imitation de Jésus-Christ
- Abraham Cowley - The Miscellanies
- William Davenant - Wit and Drollery: Jovial Poems
- Andreas Gryphius - Cemetery thoughts
Non-fiction
- Pierre Borel - Trésor des recherches et antiquitez gauloises et Françoises
- Méric Casaubon - A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasm
- Margaret Cavendish - Nature 's Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life and A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life
- James Harrington - The Commonwealth of Oceana
- Thomas Hobbes - Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance
- Elizabeth Major - Honey on the Rod
- Marchmont Nedham - The Excellency of a Free State
- Francis Osborne - Advice to a Son ( A book against the marriage, which was banned on grounds of immorality and burned. )
- Blaise Pascal - Les Provinciates ( in March 1657 completed )
- Michel de Pure - La ou les Précieuse mystères of ruelles
- Gerrard Winstanley - The Law of Freedom
- Martin Zeiller / Matthäus Merian - Topographia Franconiae
Born
- 07 February: Maria Selvaggia Borghini, Italian poet and translator († 1735)
- APRIL 11: Paul Raven, German philologist and philosopher († 1713)
- April 17: William Molyneux, philosopher and political writer († 1698 )
- June 17: Paul Thymich, German poet († 1694 )
- JUNE 27: Marperger, German economist and Camera List ( * 1730)
- August: Lady Mary Chudleigh, English poet († 1710)
- AUGUST 28: Jean Croiset, French Catholic priest, Jesuit, and author ascetic writings († 1738)
- September 14: Thomas Baker, English antiquary and author
- 09 November: Paul Aler, Jesuit, scholar and poet of Luxembourg († 1727)
- NOVEMBER 26: Adam Erdmann Mirus, German educator, Orientalist, popular science writer and lexicographer (* 1724)
- Exact date unknown: Burkard Bausch, monk and chronicler of the Frankish Benedictine Muensterschwarzach († 1721/23 )
- Exact date unknown: Jean- Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist Jean Racine and pupils (* 1723)
- Exact date unknown: Charles Davenant, economist and son of Sir William Davenant († 1714)
- Exact date unknown: Philip case, cleric and chronicler from Jersey († 1742)
- Exact date unknown: Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger, Dutch writer and physician († 1718)
- Exact date unknown: Hans Paus, Norwegian priest and poet († 1715 )
- Exact date unknown: Hugh Speke, English writer and agitator ( to 1724)