1654 - What happened in 1654 ?
April 1654
Sunday 05:
The Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War, is signed.
June 1654
Saturday 06:
Christina, reigning queen of the Protestant nation Sweden, abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism. Charles X succeedes his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
Sunday 07:
Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
August 1654
Saturday 22:
Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
October 1654
Monday 12:
The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100.
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