1656

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1653 1654 1655 – 1656 – 1657 1658 1659

1656 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1656 MDCLVI
Ab urbe condita	2409
Armenian calendar	1105 ԹՎ ՌՃԵ
Assyrian calendar	6406
Balinese saka calendar	1577–1578
Bengali calendar	1063
Berber calendar	2606
English Regnal year	7 Cha. 2 – 8 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2200
Burmese calendar	1018
Byzantine calendar	7164–7165
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4352 or 4292     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4353 or 4293
Coptic calendar	1372–1373
Discordian calendar	2822
Ethiopian calendar	1648–1649
Hebrew calendar	5416–5417
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1712–1713
- Shaka Samvat	1577–1578
- Kali Yuga	4756–4757
Holocene calendar	11656
Igbo calendar	656–657
Iranian calendar	1034–1035
Islamic calendar	1066–1067
Japanese calendar	Meireki 2 (明暦２年)
Javanese calendar	1578–1579
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3989
Minguo calendar	256 before ROC 民前256年
Nanakshahi calendar	188
Thai solar calendar	2198–2199
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1782 or 1401 or 629     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1783 or 1402 or 630

1656 (MDCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1656th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 656th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1656, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• December – The pendulum clock is invented by Christian Huygens.