Editing 1657 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Miles Sindercombe]] and his group of disaffected [[Levellers]] are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate [[Oliver Cromwell]] by blowing up the [[Palace of Whitehall]] in London and are arrested.<ref name="british-civil-wars timelines">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|title=1657|work=British Civil Wars. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60|date=2010-06-07|access-date=2012-02-17|archive-date=May 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509162328/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* January 29 &ndash; [[Rule of the Major-Generals]] (regional military government) in England is abolished.<ref name="CBH1657">{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=187–188|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Resettlement of the Jews in England]]: [[Oliver Cromwell]] gives [[Antonio Fernandez Carvajal]] the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England.
* [[February 23]] &ndash; In England, the ''[[Humble Petition and Advice]]'' offers Lord Protector [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell]] the crown.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=John|last=Morrill|author-link=John Morrill (historian)|title=Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6765|access-date=2012-02-17|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/6765}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The [[Great Fire of Meireki]] in [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]], Japan, destroys most of the city and damages [[Edo Castle]], killing an estimated 100,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blusse|first1=Leonard|last2=Vaillé|first2=Cynthia|year=2005|title=The Deshima Dagregisters, Volume XII 1650-1660|location=Leiden}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60)]]: By the [[Treaty of Paris (1657)|Treaty of Paris]], France and England form an alliance against Spain;<ref name="Cassell's Chronology267268">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/267 267–268]}}</ref> England will receive [[Dunkirk]].