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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.
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]
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. May 10 – English troops land on Jamaica.
The Invasion of Jamaica took place in May 1655, during the 1654 to 1660 Anglo-Spanish War, when an English expeditionary force captured Spanish Jamaica. It was part of an ambitious plan by Oliver Cromwell to acquire new colonies in the Americas, known as the Western Design .
- 19–27 May 1655
- Jamaica occupied by England, ceded by Spain in 1670
- English victory
Pope Innocent X. Pope Innocent X ( Latin: Innocentius X; Italian: Innocenzo X; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili ), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655. [1]
- 15 September 1644
- 19 November 1629, by Urban VIII
- 7 January 1655
- Alexander VII
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