Search results
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.
1655 in England - Wikipedia. Events from the year 1655 in England . 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]
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.
September 15, 1655 - Peach Tree War begins with attack on New Amsterdam and Pavonia along Hudson (North) River by Susquehannock Indians and their allies as retaliation for the loss of New Sweden to the Dutch. Indian victory forced many Dutch settlers back to Fort Amsterdam.
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
1655 in France - Wikipedia. Events from the year 1655 in France. Incumbents. Monarch – Louis XIV [1] Events. This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2015) Births. 14 February – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, churchman (died 1707) 30 September – Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, nobleman (died 1727)
HMS. Royal Charles. (1655) Royal Charles off Hellevoetsluis, captured by the Dutch after the Raid on the Medway, June 1667. Jeronymus van Diest (II). Royal Charles was an 80-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the English Navy. She was built by Peter Pett and launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1655, for the navy of the Commonwealth of ...