* Bernard de Montfaucon ( 1655 – 1741 )

These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.

* 1655 – Second Northern War / the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.

* 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars ( 1655 – 1661 ), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.

* Daniel Heinsius, scholar of the Dutch Renaissance ( 1580 – 1655 )

Despite the arguably greater architectural inventiveness of Borromini and Cortona, Bernini's artistic pre-eminence, particularly during the reigns of popes Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ) and Alexander VII ( 1655 – 1665 ), meant he was able to secure the most important commission in the Rome of his day, St. Peter's Basilica.

* 1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Crete-Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist ( d. 1655 )

* 1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist ( d. 1655 )

* 1655 – Empress Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg of the Holy Roman Empire ( d. 1720 )

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* Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ).

Limburg – extract from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian 1655

The last stage of French lute music is exemplified by Robert de Visée ( c. 1655 – 1732 / 3 ), whose suites exploit the instrument's possibilities to the fullest.

* 1574 – Pope Innocent X ( d. 1655 )

* 1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.

* 1655 – Pope Innocent XIII ( d. 1724 )

* 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

* 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet ( d. 1655 )

* 1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies.

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

* 1655 – Charles XI of Sweden ( d. 1697 )

** Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish diplomat ( d. 1655 )

* Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar of Spain ( 1572 – 1655 ), diplomat and Catholic theologian

Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo, marqués de Bedmar ( first name also spelled Alonso, often used was the title Bedmar ) ( 1572 – August 10, 1655 ) was a Spanish diplomat, bishop and Roman cardinal.

In 1534 the settlers moved to a new healthier site they named Villa de la Vega, which the English renamed Spanish Town when they conquered the island in 1655.

The invention of the modern piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori ( 1655 – 1731 ) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de ' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments.

He also married the fourteen-year-old Elisabeth de St Michel, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, first in a religious ceremony, on 10 October 1655, and later in a civil ceremony, on 1 December 1655, at St Margaret's, Westminster.

* March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet ( d. 1655 )

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" The Knight's Dream ", 1655, by Antonio de Pereda

File: Parlement de Bretagne-2006. jpg | The Parlement of Brittany, built 1618 – 1655.

* Réfutation du catéchisme de Paul Ferry ( 1655 )

Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655 ) was a French dramatist and duelist.

In 1655, Louis Lucas de Néhou built a glass factory which produced windows and mirrors for such buildings as the Galerie des Glaces and Château de Versailles.

** Infanta Maria Ambrosia de la Concepción ( 7 December 1655 21 December 1655 )

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* Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie ( 1655 – 1657 )

His plays include Jodelet ( 1645 ), Don Japhel d ' Arménie ( 1653 ), L ' Écolier de Salamanque ( 1654 ), Le Marquis ridicule ou la comtesse faite à la hâte ( 1655 ), La Fausse Apparence ( 1657 ), Le Prince corsaire ( 1658 ).

He entered the army, and served under Turenne, also his kinsman, and in 1655 succeeded his father as commander of the cent gentilshommes de la maison de roi.

Meanwhile, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, whose eastern part was since August 1655 occupied by another Swedish army, under Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Janusz Radziwiłł and his cousin Bogusław Radziwiłł signed the Union of Kėdainiai ( October 20, 1655 ), which ended Lithuania's union with Poland.

The division on the western flank consisted of 13, 650 men and 72 artillery pieces commanded by Arvid Wittenberg who entered Poland on 21 July 1655 and another 12, 700 to 15, 000 commanded by Charles X Gustav who followed in August, while the division on the northern flank consisted of 7, 200 men commanded by Magnus de la Gardie who had already seized Dünaburg with them on 12 July.

They landed in May 1655 at a place called Santiago de la Vega, now Spanish Town.

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In 1655, Mariana then had another daughter, Maria Ambrosia de la Concepción ; she only lived fifteen days.

* Maria Ambrosia de la Concepción ( 7 December 165521 December 1655 )

* Pierre Dupuy Histoire de la condamnation ... des Templiers ( Brussels, 1713 ), and Histoire du différend entre le pape Boniface VIII et Philippe le Bel ( Paris 1655 ); and Notices et extraits de manuscrits, vol.

*-De la perfection de l ' homme, où les vrays biens sont considérez, et spécialement ceux de l ' âme, avec les méthodes des sciences, Paris, Robert de Nain, 1655.

Josué de la Place ( also, Josua Placeus ; c. 1596 – August 17, 1665 or possibly 1655 ) was a French theologian who was born at Saumur.

* Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque ( c. 1655 – 1733 ), Viceroy of New Spain