1654

Summary

1654 (MDCLIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1654th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 654th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1654, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
April 5: The Treaty of Westminster is signed.
1654 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1654
MDCLIV
Ab urbe condita2407
Armenian calendar1103
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Assyrian calendar6404
Balinese saka calendar1575–1576
Bengali calendar1061
Berber calendar2604
English Regnal yearCha. 2 – 6 Cha. 2
(Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar2198
Burmese calendar1016
Byzantine calendar7162–7163
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4351 or 4144
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4352 or 4145
Coptic calendar1370–1371
Discordian calendar2820
Ethiopian calendar1646–1647
Hebrew calendar5414–5415
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1710–1711
 - Shaka Samvat1575–1576
 - Kali Yuga4754–4755
Holocene calendar11654
Igbo calendar654–655
Iranian calendar1032–1033
Islamic calendar1064–1065
Japanese calendarJōō 3
(承応3年)
Javanese calendar1576–1577
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3987
Minguo calendar258 before ROC
民前258年
Nanakshahi calendar186
Thai solar calendar2196–2197
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1780 or 1399 or 627
    — to —
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1781 or 1400 or 628

Events edit

 
The original Magdeburg hemispheres and Guericke's vacuum pump in the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

January–March edit

April–June edit

July–September edit

October –December edit

Births edit

 
Kangxi Emperor
 
Bernard Nieuwentyt

Deaths edit

 
Paulus Potter
 
Emperor Go-Kōmyō

References edit

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