Today in History for Year 1655

Months in Year 1655: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

Mar 25th - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
Apr 4th - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
Apr 4th - The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach.
Apr 7th - Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
Apr 26th - Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
Apr 28th - English admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
May 10th - Jamaica captured by English
Jun 13th - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
Jul 27th - Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
Jul 27th - Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty
Jul 29th - Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
Jul 30th - Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
Jul 31st - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
Aug 9th - Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts
Aug 28th - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
Aug 29th - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
Sep 26th - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
Oct 9th - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
Oct 15th - Jews of Lublin are massacred
Nov 3rd - England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
Nov 24th - English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans
Dec 4th - Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 16 of 16

Jan 1st - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
Jan 6th - Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
Jan 6th - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
Jan 14th - Angelo Predieri, composer
Jan 22nd - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand)
Feb 3rd - Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized
Feb 7th - Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
Apr 8th - Louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden)
May 4th - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
May 13th - Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24)
Jun 26th - Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent
Aug 13th - Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
Sep 12th - Sebastien de Brossard, composer
Sep 19th - Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
Nov 24th - Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97)
Dec 28th - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Feb 16th - Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 17 of 17

Jan 7th - Pope Innocent X (Giambattista Pamfili), Reigned 1644-55, dies at 80
Feb 25th - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
Mar 29th - Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66
Apr 6th - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
Apr 14th - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39
Apr 30th - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
Jun 30th - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81
Jul 15th - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
Jul 28th - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris
Jul 28th - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
Jul 30th - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
Aug 2nd - Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83
Aug 10th - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
Sep 3rd - Jan W van Brederode, Dutch governor/field marshal, dies at 56
Sep 7th - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
Oct 16th - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
Oct 24th - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63