Deaths on August 11

Ottavio Piccolomini

Died on August 11, 1656

Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)

Ottavio Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi (11 November 1599 – 11 August 1656) was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Events on 1656

23 Jan

Lettres provinciales
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
30 Jul

Battle of Warsaw (1656)
Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
14 Oct

Puritanism
Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

Deaths on August 11

Ottavio Piccolomini

Died on August 11, 1656

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Events on 1656

Lettres provinciales

Battle of Warsaw (1656)

Puritanism