23rd April » The Siege of Santo Domingo (1655) known as Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) or Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
10th May » England, with troops under the command of William Penn (admiral) e.g Admiral William Penn and Robert Venables known as General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
19th May » The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) known as Anglo-Spanish War.
31st July » Russo-Polish War (1654–67): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
23rd August » Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
8th September » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during Deluge (history) e.g The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
18th December » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
27th December » Second Northern War/the Deluge (history) or Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a Siege of Jasna Góra named month-long siege.
Famous Birthdays in 1655
1st January » Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (d. 1728)
6th January » Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (d. 1720)
4th March » Fra Galgario, Italian painter (d. 1743)
4th May » Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)