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| 1652 |
| | | The first coffee house opens In London and Londoners soon find such places useful to meet in and do business | |
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| 1652 |
| | | Turenne defeats Condé in a battle in the Paris suburbs, hastening the decline of the Fronde | |
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| 1653 |
| | | Cromwell uses troops to turn the members out of the House of Commons and locks the door behind them | |
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| 1653 |
| | | The 14-year-old Louis XIV dances in a court ballet as Apollo, wearing a glorious sun costume, and finds that he likes the role | |
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| 1653 |
| | | Cromwell is appointed Lord Protector of the Commonwealth for life, under legislation entitled the Instrument of Government | |
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| 1653 |
| | | Jan Vermeer marries and begins a quiet career as a painter and art dealer in his home town of Delft | |
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| 1653 |
| | | The English admiral Robert Blake introduces a system of signalling at sea by means of flags | |
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| 1653 |
| | | John Bunyan joins a Nonconformist church in Bedford and becomes one of their preachers | |
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| 1653 |
| | | Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes the classic work on the subject, The Compleat Angler | |
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| 1654 |
| | | Queen Christina, a secret convert to Catholicism, abdicates in Sweden and travels to Rome | |
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