Editing 1653 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Oliver Cromwell]] expels the [[Rump Parliament]] in [[England]].
* [[April 28]] &ndash;  The [[Marlborough, Wiltshire#History|Great Fire of Marlborough]] destroys 224 houses and much of the textile businesses in the Wiltshire town which, "at that date was one of considerable importance, and had merchants of affluence and repute."<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p30 </ref> 
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans|Ferdinand IV]], already the King of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia, is elected [[King of the Romans]] by his fellow German monarchs, making him eligible to succeed his father [[Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand III]] as [[Holy Roman Emperor]]. Ferdinand IV will not live to become Holy Roman Emperor, instead dying from smallpox 14 months after his designation.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[First Anglo-Dutch War]]: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet in the [[Battle of the Gabbard]] after a two-day fight.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; The [[Swiss peasant war of 1653]] ends after Swiss Army troops under the command of [[Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer]] suppress the last rebels in Switzerland's Entlebuch Valley.