Mathieu Molé, French politician (b. 1584)
Mathieu Molé (1584 – 3 January 1656) was a French statesman.
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- 23Jan
Lettres provinciales
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. - 30Jul
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. - 14Oct
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.