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| 1638 |
| | | Riots erupt in Edinburgh, in response to the attempt by Charles I and Laud to impose a hierarchy of Anglican bishops | |
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| c. 1650 |
| | | Hindu princes and brahmin priests withdraw from Java to Bali, turning the island into the last outpost of Hinduism in southeast Asia | |
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| 1650 |
| | | James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, calculates that creation began on Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC | |
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| 1650 |
| | | The Dalai Lama declares that his teacher is also an incarnation of a future Buddha, and that he is to be known as Panchen | |
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| 1652 |
| | | Nikon becomes patriarch of all Russia and introduces reforms which cause the Old Believers to form a breakaway sect | |
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| 1653 |
| | | John Bunyan joins a Nonconformist church in Bedford and becomes one of their preachers | |
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| c. 1655 |
| | | George Fox begins preaching in England, in a movement which develops into the Society of Friends - or Quakers | |
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| c. 1656 |
| | | Jews return to England after Cromwell repeals the law of 1290 forbidding their residence in the country | |
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| 1661 |
| | | John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol | |
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| 1661 |
| | | The Cavalier Parliament begins to pass a series of acts, known as the Clarendon Code, containing punitive measures against Presbyterians | |
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