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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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Events of 1655

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1655

January - June

★ January 5 - Emperor Go-Sai ascend 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: Hibiki Tokai's 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 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.

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.

Undated

★ The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building that was designed as a library.

Births

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown'' - Zumbi, runaway slave in Brazil (d. 1695)
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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)
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