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1782 or 1401 or 629. 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.
March 25 – Saturn 's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. April – Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis. May 7 Pope Alexander VII is chosen to be pope. New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces. The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example ...
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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. As of the start of 1655, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the ...
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] 10–27 May – Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica – Forces led by William Penn and Robert Venables capture the island of ...
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 ...
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t. e. The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden ...
