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1655 ( MDCLV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1655th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 655th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1650s decade.
The Battle of the Severn was a skirmish fought on March 25, 1655, on the Severn River at Horn Point, across Spa Creek from Annapolis, Maryland, in what at that time was referred to as the Puritan settlement of "Providence", and what is now the neighborhood of Eastport.
- March 25, 1655
- Commonwealth victory
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Incumbents. Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell. Events. 22 January – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the First Protectorate Parliament. [1] 11–14 March – Penruddock uprising: a Royalist uprising beginning in Wiltshire is defeated by a skirmish in South Molton. [1] 28 April – Admiral Robert Blake destroys the pirate fleet of the bey of Tunis. [1]
The Rule of the Major-Generals, was a period of direct military government from August 1655 to January 1657, [1] during Oliver Cromwell 's Protectorate. [2] England and Wales were divided into ten regions, [3] each governed by a major-general who answered to the Lord Protector . The period quickly "became a convenient and powerful symbol of the ...
1655 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 1655 was a common year. 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 7 Pope Alexander VII is chosen to be pope.
The 1665–66 epidemic was on a much smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic. It became known afterwards as the "great" plague mainly because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the 400-year Second Pandemic.
Anthony Johnson ( c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony. [1] He later became a tobacco farmer in Maryland.