1655
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s |
| Years: | 1652 1653 1654 - 1655 - 1656 1657 1658 |
| 1655 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1655 (MDCLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1655
[edit] January - June
- January 5 - Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of Japan
- February 16 - Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker.
- March 25 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
- April 4 - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet defeats Barbarian pirates.
- April 7 - Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, succeeds Pope Innocent X as the 237th pope.
- April 26 - Dutch West India Company - denies Peter Stuyvesant's request to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam (Manhattan).
- April 28 - Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis.
- May 10 - English troops land on Jamaica.
- June 13 - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh becomes first actress in Amsterdam theater.
[edit] July - December
- July 20 - Inauguration of the Amsterdam Town Hall (now the Royal Palace (Amsterdam).
- July 27 - The Jews in New Amsterdam petition for a separate Jewish cemetery.
- July 27 - Netherlands and Brandenburg sign a military treaty.
- July 29 - In Amsterdam, the biggest townhall in the world is opened.
- July 30 - Dutch troops capture Fort Assahudi Seram.
- July 31 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it would hold for six years.
- August 9 - Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell divides England into 11 districts under major-generals.
- August 28 - New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bar colonial Jews from military service.
- August - The governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, attacks the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.
- September 8 - Swedish king Karel X Gustav occupies Warsaw (Poland).
- September 26 - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir and defeats the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.
- October 15 - Jews of Lublin are massacred.
- October 19 - Swedish King Karel X Gustav occupies Krakow (Poland).
- November 3 - England and France sign military and economic treaties.
- November 24 - English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell bans Anglicans.
- December 4 - Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of a synagogue.
[edit] Undated
- The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building that was designed as a library.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1655 MDCLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2408 |
| Armenian calendar | 1104 ԹՎ ՌՃԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -189 – -188 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2199 |
| Chinese calendar | 4291/4351-11-24 (甲午年十一月廿四日) — to —
4292/4352-12-4(乙未年十二月初四日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1647 – 1648 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5415 – 5416 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1710 – 1711 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1577 – 1578 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4756 – 4757 |
| Holocene calendar | 11655 |
| Iranian calendar | 1033 – 1034 |
| Islamic calendar | 1065 – 1066 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōō 4 (承応4年) — changed to —
Meireki 1(明暦元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2315 (皇紀2315年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11655 |
| Julian calendar | 1700 |
| Korean calendar | 3988 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2198 |
- January 1 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
- May 4 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)
- May 13 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
- November 24 - King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
- December 28 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
[edit] Date unknown
- See also Category:1655 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
- February 25 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
- April 6 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
- April 30 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
- June 27 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
- July 15 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
- July 28 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and writer (b. 1619)
- August 10 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
- September 7 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
- October 16 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
- October 24 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
[edit] Date unknown
- (none)
- See also Category:1655 deaths.
