* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

* 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 )

# Christian ( 1581 – 1655 )

* 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 – 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 )

The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years.

* John Danvers of England ( 1588 – 1655 ), courtier and politician

On March 25, 1655, during the English Civil War, the Battle of the Severn was fought in Anne Arundel County between Puritan forces supporting the Commonwealth of England and forces loyal to Cæcilius Calvert.

An image of suspected witches being hanged in England, published in 1655

Named after Chelmsford, England, the town was incorporated in May 1655 by an act of the Massachusetts General Court.

An act of the Massachusetts General Court in the last week of May 1655 town incorporated Chelmsford, and it was named after Chelmsford, England.

His wife and father petitioned for his release, and in October 1655 he was brought back to England and lodged in Dover Castle.

; 1655: Jews readmitted to England by Oliver Cromwell.

This possible encounter may have been the impetus for Baltzar's decision to emigrate to England in 1655, leaving behind his newly attained position of Ratslutenist of Lübeck ( he had returned briefly to his home city, probably shortly after Christina's abdication in June 1654 ).

* 1655: The Unmerciful Servant-The Wallace Collection, London, England ;

What is unique about the inclusion of Joachim Gans in this expedition was that Jews were not allowed in England until Oliver Cromwell allowed them back into England in 1655 by refusing to extend Expulsion Laws imposed roughly 300 years earlier by Edward I in 1290.

It was actually written in the Spanish Netherlands, where Charles had been residing since March 1656 ; however, at the time of writing, England had been at war with Spain since 1655.

Consequently he was arrested on 10 February 1655 at the village of Easton, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, while dictating A Declaration of the free and well-affected People of England now in Arms against the Tyrant Oliver Cromwell, esq to his secretary William Parker.

However, shortly after the English captured Jamaica in 1655, they recommenced relations with the coast, and Oldman went to visit England.

The town was officially settled and incorporated in 1655, named for Groton in Suffolk, England, the hometown of Dean Winthrop, an early selectman.

No Jews were known to be in England thereafter until 1655, when Oliver Cromwell reversed the policy.

In 1655 Elizabeth Key Grinstead, who was a slave in Virginia, won her freedom in a lawsuit based on her father's status as a free Englishman ( her mother was a slave and her father was her mother's owner ), helped by the fact that her father had baptized her as Christian in the Church of England.

At the end of 1655, he met the exiled Charles II of England at Cologne and lived a part of the following year with him in the Spanish Netherlands.

In 1655 he was formally appointed as the Massachusetts colony's agent in England.

Jews were not officially allowed to settle in England again until 1655 when Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell asked Parliament to allow Jews renouncing Papal sovereignty and who were fleeing Catholic persecution in the Low Countries and France to settle under writ of Parliament.

* William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart ( 1600 ?– 1655 ), Scottish nobleman and whipping-boy to King Charles I of England

On returning to England in October 1655 he was arrested, and on refusing to submit to the government was allowed to retire to Essex.

From then until 1655, there is nearly no official record of Jews in England.