1655 Calendar
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1655 Historical Event(s)
March 8, 1655
– John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies.
March 25, 1655
– Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
May 10, 1655
– England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
July 31, 1655
– Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
August 29, 1655
– Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
December 27, 1655
– Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
Who Were Born On 1655?
January 1, 1655
– Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
January 6, 1655
– Empress Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1720)
May 4, 1655
– Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)
May 13, 1655
– Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
November 24, 1655
– Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
December 28, 1655
– Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)