1655

1655

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years:	1652 1653 1654 - 1655 - 1656 1657 1658

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).

Events of 1655

March 25 : Titan discovered (image false color).

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 of Postage Farina, Tunis: Hibiki Tokai's fleet defeats the Barbarian pirates.
April 7 - Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, succeeds Pope Innocent X as the 237th pope.
April 26 - The 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 the first actress in Amsterdam theater.

July 20 - The Amsterdam Town Hall (now the Royal Palace (Amsterdam) is inaugurated.
July 27 - The Jews in New Amsterdam petition for a separate Jewish cemetery.
July 27 - The 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): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for 6 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 Karl X Gustav occupies Warsaw (Poland).
September 26 - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir and defeats the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.
October 15 - The Jews of Lublin are massacred.
October 19 - Swedish King Karl 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, the Netherlands forbids the building of a synagogue.

The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building 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)

See also Category:1655 births.

theorist (b. 1591)

October 24 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
December 17 - Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo (b. 1573)

See also Category:1655 deaths.