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January 5 – The First War of Villmergen, a civil war in the Confederation of Switzerland pitting its Protestant and Roman Catholic cantons against each other, breaks out but is resolved by March 7. The Lutheran cantons of the larger cities of Zurich, Bern and Schaffhausen battle against seven Catholic cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, Zug ...
Miles Sindercombe makes a failed assassination attempt on Oliver Cromwell. [1] 19 September – Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish treasure fleet near Cádiz. [2] 24 October – Quaker James Nayler re-enacts the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem at Bristol, for which he is arrested for blasphemy. [1]
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The Battle of Warsaw (German: Schlacht von Warschau; Polish: Bitwa pod Warszawą; Swedish: Tredagarsslaget vid Warschau) took place near Warsaw on July 28–July 30 [O.S. July 18–20] 1656, between the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden and Brandenburg.
- July 28–30, 1656
- near Warsaw, Poland
- Swedish-Brandenburger victory
Battle of Warsaw, (28–30 July 1656). Sweden had invaded Poland-Lithuania in 1655, starting the First Northern War that would last until 1660. The Swedish advance was swift. In 1656 King Charles X of Sweden and an allied Brandenburg army bested a larger Polish-Lithuanian army near Warsaw before advancing into the city.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1656.
The Russo-Swedish War of 1656-1658, known as the War of Rupture, was fought by Russia and Sweden as a theater of the Second Northern War. It took place during a pause in the contemporary Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) as a consequence of the Truce of Vilna.
