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Event religious East Asia

Wat Arun

1656 CE

Temple of Dawn on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, with a spectacular Khmer-style tower encrusted in porcelain.

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Standing in 1656 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Vice-Royalty of New Spain Polity · Americas 1530 CE – 1815 CE Ainu Polity · East Asia 3000 BCE – 1700 CE Yakushima Landmark · East Asia 3000 BCE – still standing Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Meteora Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing

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1648 CE Khmelnytsky Uprising 1649 CE Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland 1652 CE Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652 CE First Anglo-Dutch War 1655 CE The Deluge (Swedish Invasion of Poland) 1656 CE Jama Masjid