1655 in England

Events from the year 1655 in the The Protectorate.

Incumbents

22 January - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the First Protectorate Parliament.^[1]
11 March–14 March - Penruddock uprising: a Royalist uprising in Wiltshire is quickly defeated.^[1]
28 April - Admiral Robert Blake destroys the pirate fleet of the bey of Tunis.^[1]
17 May - William Penn and Robert Venables capture the island of Jamaica from Spain.^[2]
9 August - The Rule of the Major-Generals, a period of direct military government, begins.^[1]
24 November - Anglican services prohibited by Cromwell.^[1]
4 December–18 December - The Whitehall Conference is convened by Cromwell to debate the Resettlement of the Jews in England.^[2]

11 January - Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, politician and soldier (died 1701)
25 April - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (died 1700)
20 July - Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, statesman (died 1701)
12 November - Francis Nicholson, military officer and colonial governor (died 1728)
28 December - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1698)
Andrew Allam, writer (died 1685)
Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1696)
William Nicolson, antiquary (died 1727)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 266. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b "1655, British Civil Wars". http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1655.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-20.
^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 185–186. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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