1655 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1655?
- 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 In The Year 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)
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