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1655

Events of 1655

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 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.

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

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)

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)
July 28 - Suzuki Shōsan, Japanese Samurai (b. 1579)
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)
December 17 - Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo(b. 1573)