Historical Events
- Mar 25 Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan
- Apr 4 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates
- Apr 4 The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach
- Apr 7 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
- Apr 26 Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
- Apr 28 English General-at-Sea Robert Blake (he was never titled Admiral) beats North African pirate fleet
- May 10 Jamaica captured by the English
- Jul 27 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
- Jul 27 Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty
- Jul 29 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
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Famous People Born in 1655
- Jan 1 Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
- Jan 6 Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress, born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1720)
- Jan 6 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)
- Jan 14 Angelo Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1731)
- Jan 22 Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand)
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Famous People in 1655
Rembrandt van RijnWorld Leaders in 1655
Louis XIV
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Famous People Who Died in 1655
- Jan 7 Innocent X [Giambattista Pamfili], Catholic Pope (1644-55), dies at 80
- Feb 25 Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
- Mar 29 Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66
- Apr 6 David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
- Apr 14 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, dies at 39
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