Births on March 26

Nicolaas Hartsoeker

Born on March 26, 1656

Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725)

Nicolaas Hartsoeker (26 March 1656 – 10 December 1725) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope c. 1694.

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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.

Births on March 26

Nicolaas Hartsoeker

Born on March 26, 1656

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Events on 1656

Lettres provinciales

Battle of Warsaw (1656)

Puritanism