This article is about the year 1655.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1655 MDCLV |
Ab urbe condita | 2408 |
Armenian calendar | 1104 ԹՎ ՌՃԴ |
Assyrian calendar | 6405 |
Bahá'í calendar | −189 – −188 |
Bengali calendar | 1062 |
Berber calendar | 2605 |
English Regnal year | 6 Cha. 2 – 7 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) |
Buddhist calendar | 2199 |
Burmese calendar | 1017 |
Byzantine calendar | 7163–7164 |
Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4351 or 4291 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4352 or 4292 |
Coptic calendar | 1371–1372 |
Discordian calendar | 2821 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1647–1648 |
Hebrew calendar | 5415–5416 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1711–1712 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1577–1578 |
- Kali Yuga | 4756–4757 |
Holocene calendar | 11655 |
Igbo calendar | 655–656 |
Iranian calendar | 1033–1034 |
Islamic calendar | 1065–1066 |
Japanese calendar | Jōō 4 / Meireki 1 (明暦元年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3988 |
Minguo calendar | 257 before ROC 民前257年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2198 |
Year 1655 (MDCLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 5 – Emperor Go-Sai ascends the throne of Japan.
- February 16 – Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker.
- March 8 – John Castor became the first legally recognized slave in what was to be the United States.
- March 25 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- April 4 – Battle of Porto Farina, Tunis: English admiral Robert Blake's fleet defeats the Barbarian pirates.
- April 7 – Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, succeeds Pope Innocent X as the 237th pope.
- April 24 – The massacre of the Waldensians by Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, memorialized in a poem.
- 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–December
- July 20 – The Amsterdam Town Hall (now the Royal Palace) is inaugurated.
- July 27
- The Jews in New Amsterdam petition for a separate Jewish cemetery.
- The Netherlands and Brandenburg sign a military treaty.
- July 30 – Dutch troops capture Fort Assahudi Seram.
- July 31 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): 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 Kraków (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.
- December 27 – Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
Date unknown
- The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building designed as a library.
Births
- January 1 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
- January 5 – John Coney (silversmith), early American silversmith/goldsmith (d. 1722)
- January 6
- Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli, Italian jurist of religious law and historian (d. 1740)
- Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720)
- Antonio Molinari, Italian painter (d. 1704)
- January 11
- Charles Sergison, English politician (d. 1732)
- Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1701)
- January 13 – Bernard de Montfaucon, French Benedictine monk (d. 1741)
- January 19 – Nalan Xingde, poet (d. 1685)
- January 25 – Cornelius Anckarstjerna, admiral (d. 1714)
- January 27 – Henri de Nesmond, French churchman (d. 1727)
- February 2 – William "Tangier" Smith, Moroccan mayor (d. 1705)
- February 7 – Jean-François Regnard (d. 1709)
- February 14 – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, French churchman (d. 1707)
- February 15 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig, German prince (d. 1715)
- February 16 – Charles, Electoral Prince of Brandenburg, German prince (d. 1674)
- February 25 – Carel de Moor, Dutch painter (d. 1738)
- February 28 – Johann Beer, Austrian composer (d. 1700)
- March 4 – Fra Galgario, Italian painter (d. 1743)
- March 6 – Frederik Krag, Danish nobleman and senior civil servant (d. 1728)
- March 23
- Richard Hill of Hawkstone (d. 1727)
- Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1716)
- April 8 – Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1707)
- April 19 – George St Lo, Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. 1718)
- April 25 – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (d. 1700)
- April 26
- Rinaldo d'Este (1655–1737), Duke of Modena (d. 1737)
- Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1716)
- May 4 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)
- May 13 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
- May 31 – Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey, Marshal of France (d. 1725)
- June 4 – Thomas of Cori, Italian Friar Minor and preacher (d. 1729)
- June 11 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter (d. 1730)
- June 12 – Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d. 1715)
- July 7 – Christoph Dientzenhofer, Architect (d. 1722)
- July 20 – Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, British Earl (d. 1701)
- August 2 – Sir John Hotham, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1691)
- August 13 – Johann Christoph Denner (d. 1707)
- August 16 – Frederick Christian, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1728)
- August 18 – James Collett, English-born merchant who settled in Norway (d. 1727)
- August 22 – Joseph Robineau de Villebon (d. 1700)
- September 2 – Andries Pels, Dutch banker (d. 1731)
- September 9 – James Johnston (Secretary of State), diplomat, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. 1737)
- September 12 – Sébastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist (d. 1730)
- September 14 – Éléonor Marie du Maine du Bourg, French nobleman and general (d. 1739)
- September 21 – Roger Cave, English politician (d. 1703)
- September 29 – Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg, Duke of Münsterberg (d. 1705)
- September 30 – Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, French nobleman (d. 1727)
- October 4 – Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1729)
- October 12 – Richard Neville (the younger), English politician (d. 1717)
- October 25 – Fabio Brulart de Sillery, French churchman (d. 1714)
- November 1 – Ferdinand Kettler (d. 1737)
- November 6 – Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734), Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1734)
- November 12
- Eustache Restout, French painter (d. 1743)
- Francis Nicholson, British Army general, colonial administrator (d. 1727)
- November 16 – Alessandro Gherardini, Italian painter (d. 1726)
- November 18 – Walter Norborne (died 1684), English politician (d. 1684)
- November 19 – Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1736)
- November 20 – Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1700)
- November 24 – King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
- December 9 – Isaac van Hoornbeek, Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. 1727)
- December 10 – Sir William Forester, British politician (d. 1718)
- December 13 – John Evelyn the Younger, English translator (d. 1699)
- December 14 – Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal, son of William VI (d. 1721)
- December 27 – Abstrupus Danby, English politician (d. 1727)
- December 28 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
- December 29 – Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, English politician (d. 1724)
- date unknown – Zumbi, runaway slave in Brazil (d. 1695)
Deaths
- January 5 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
- January 12 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
- 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)
- 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)