Rhode Island legislates to restrict slavery in the Province.
1653. A three-days' naval engagement between the English fleet, under Blake, and that of the Dutch, under Van Tromp; great victory of the former.
Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament; assembling of the Barebones Parliament. Cromwell becomes Protector of the English Commonwealth.
1654. Peace between England and Holland.
Scotland incorporated with the English Commonwealth.
Revolt of the Cossacks against Poland; their leader, Chmielnicki, places himself under the Russian crown; war ensues between Russia and Poland.
First meeting in London of the Society of Friends.
Nova Scotia conquered by the New England colonists.
Abdication of Queen Christina of Sweden in favor of her cousin, Charles X.
1655. Dispossession of the Swedish settlers on the Delaware by Peter Stuyvesant.