Events

• March 25 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
• April 7 - Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII
• April - Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis.
• May 10 - English troops land on Jamaica
• August 9 - Oliver Cromwell divides England into districts under major-generals

• New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces.
• The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building that was designed as a library.
• Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of Japan

Births

• 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)
• Zumbi, runaway slave in Brazil (d. 1695)

See also Category:1655 births.

Deaths

• January 5 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
• 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)
• 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)

See also Category:1655 deaths.

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