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1655 (MDCLV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

    1655
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        Births
        Deaths

Events

March 25 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.

April 7 - Pope Alexander VII, born Fabio Chigi, succeeds Pope Innocent X as the 235th pope.

April - Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis.

July 31 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Wilno, which it would hold for six years.

August 9 - Oliver Cromwell divides England into districts under major-generals

New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces.

The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building that was designed as a library.

Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of Japan

Births

May 4 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)

Zumbi, runaway slave in Brazil (d. 1695)

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Deaths

April 6 - David Blondel, French protestant clergyman (b. 1591)

July 28 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and writer (b. 1619)

October 16 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)

October 24 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)

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