Major Events
- Jan 25 Duchy of Savoy orders expulsion or conversion of non-Catholic householders in Waldensian communities in Piedmont
- Mar 25 Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan
- Apr 4 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates
- Apr 4 The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach
- Apr 7 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Pope Alexander VII
- Apr 19 Adriana Nooseman becomes Dutch 1st actress to perform on stage professionally in the Netherlands in the play "Onvergelijkelijke Ariana" at Amsterdam Schouwburg
- Apr 24 Piedmontese Easter Massacre: Troops of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, slaughter upwards of 4,000 Waldensian civilians for non-compliance with the Edict of 25 January 1655, which called for the expulsion or conversion of non-Catholic householders in Piedmont, Duchy of Savoy
- Apr 26 Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam colony
- Apr 28 English General-at-Sea Robert Blake (he was never titled Admiral) beats North African pirate fleet
- May 10 Jamaica captured by the English
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Born in 1655
- Jan 1 Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
- Jan 6 Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress, born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1720)
- Jan 6 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)
- Jan 14 Angelo Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1731)
- Jan 22 Geleyn Evertsen, Dutch admiral (Commander of Zealand) (d. 1721)
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