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1640s. 1650s. 1660s. 1670s. See also: Other events of 1655. List of years in Denmark. Events from the year 1655 in Denmark .
Births. October 9 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French writer (d. 1723) December 25 – Claude Aveneau, French missionary (d. 1711) 7 maybe 8.
The King summon the 1655 Riksdag and introduces a Reduction (Sweden) of a quarter of all lands granted to the nobility from the crown since 1632. [1] Deluge (history) 23 August - Battle of Sobota. 16 September - Battle of Żarnów. September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. 3 October - Battle of Wojnicz.
February 1 – Giovanni Baptista Ferrari, Italian Jesuit botanist and linguist (born 1584) October 16 – Rabbi Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan -born peripatetic physician and scientist (born 1591) October 24 – Pierre Gassendi, French physicist who played a crucial role in the revival of atomism (born 1592) Francesco Pona, Veronese physician ...
Events. 22 October – Louis XIV issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights. Their Temple de Charenton-le-Pont [ fr] is immediately demolished. The decree Code Noir, passed by King Louis XIV, defines the conditions of slavery in the French ...
14 February – Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, nobleman, diplomat and military officer (died 1728) 9 April – Jean Le Fèvre, astronomer and physicist (died 1706) 21 April – Michel Rolle, mathematician, known for Rolle's theorem (died 1719) 9 November – Marie Anne d'Orléans, princess (died 1656) Full date missing.
1 March – Compagnie Générale des Omnibus established to secure a monopoly over horse-buses in Paris. 15 May–15 November – Exposition Universelle in Paris. This gives rise to the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. 16 August – Battle of Chernaya River, Russian troops defeated by French and Sardinian forces in the Crimean War.
