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

The biggest revolt was staged in 1655 and is known as the Penruddock uprising, named after one of the leaders of the revolt, John Penruddock.

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

** John Danvers, English politician ( d. 1655 )

* July – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician ( b. 1655 )

In 1655, according to his autobiographical notes, Hooke began to acquaint himself with astronomy, through the good offices of John Ward.

In 1655, Port Richmond West Plantation, the home of John West, was developed to incorporate the former site of Cinquetock.

John and Mary Evelyn had eight children: Richard ( 1652 – 1658 ), John Standsfield ( 1653 – 1654 ), John ( the younger ) ( 1655 – 1699 ), George ( 1657 – 1658 ), Richard ii ( 1664 ), Mary ( 1665 – 1685 ), Elizabeth ( 1667 – 1685 ) and Susanna ( 1669 – 1754 ).

* March 24-John Evelyn the Younger, translator ( born 1655 ), son of the diarist John Evelyn

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

He plotted with John Wildman and Richard Overton to overthrow the Protectorate but had to leave in 1655 when the conspiracy was discovered.

In May 1655 he was called from Ukraine to Warsaw, as the king John Casimir Vasa, respected his experience and requested his presence at a new war council, convened to discuss the looming thread of the war with Sweden.

On October 12, 1655, with permission of King John Casimir, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg signed the Treaty of Rinsk, in which Royal Prussian nobility agreed to allow Brandenburgian garrisons in their province to defend it against the Swedish invasion ( the treaty did not include the cities of Gdańsk, Elbląg and Toruń ).

John Casimir himself met with hetmans Stanisław Rewera Potocki, Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Stanisław Lanckoroński and Stefan Czarniecki in Krosno, on December 31, 1655.

: File: Sluby Jana Kazimierza. jpg | Oath of King John Casimir of Poland, taken in 1655 in Lviv | Lwów, during the Deluge

Very little is known about the subsequent fate of his wife and children, though it is known that his son, John, and grandsons, George ( 1632 – 1722 ) and Valentine, emigrated to Quidnesset, Rhode Island about 1655.

Also, Sweden was prevented from forming a Swedish-Polish alliance by the refusal of John II Casimir to drop his claims to the Swedish crown and the unwillingness of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility to make the territorial and political concessions an alliance with Sweden would eventually cost, final negotiations in Lübeck during February 1655 ended without a result.

* John Reynolds ( merchant ) ( 1588 ?– 1655?

Sir John Danvers ( 1588 – 1655 ) was an English courtier and politician.

Northumberland was briefly placed under house arrest in 1655 after John Thurloe accused him of encouraging his northern tenants to participate in the Penruddock uprising.

* 1655: Bust of man wearing a large-brimmed hat-( c. 1655 ), National Gallery of Art, Dublin, Ireland ;

From 1627 to 1632, this was Maurice ’ s “ old man ’ s seat ” after he had abdicated, and from 1632 to 1655, Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Eschwege, a sideline in the so-called Rotenburger Quart of the house of Hesse-Kassel, was resident here, although he did not actually live in the town until some time after 1646.

* date unknown – Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard ( b. 1655 )

He became notorious for his persecution of the Vaudois ( Waldensians ) culminating in the massacre of 1655.

It became one of the 23 bonne villes ( main cities ) of the prince-bishopric in 1655.

After his father's death, the scientist Robert Boyle became Lord of the Manor, and the house was his residence between 1644 and 1655.

In 1638, it began to be settled by Swedes, Finns, Dutch, and Walloons and became the colony of New Sweden, though this was not officially recognized by the Dutch Empire who re-asserted control in 1655.

The first headmaster, Richard Dutton, was appointed in 1655, and in 1665 the institution became an incorporated charity.

In 1655 she became the first Quaker woman preacher, for which she was imprisoned and beaten.

In 1653, he became disenchanted with Oliver Cromwell because he dissolved the Rump and on 12 February 1655 Grey joined the Fifth Monarchists.

He became a member of the painters ' guild of Saint Luke in 1655, and had moved to Amsterdam by 1661.

Overall, the population stagnated and after 1655 it became increasing hard to gain citizenship in Burgdorf.

* Francis Yeardley ( 1620 – 1655 ), " Upon reaching manhood he became quite prominent in the affairs of Virginia, being for some time a colonel of militia and in 1653 a member of the House of Burgesses for Lower Norfolk.

After the Protestant insurrection that triggered the Thirty Years ' War and the Protestants ' defeat in the Battle of White Mountain, the population of the city had to accept Catholicism or leave the town, which became a bishop's residency in 1655.

The nunnery was secularized in 1526 and in 1655 became the residence of the Counts ( later Princes ) of Waldeck, who converted it into a stately home.

In 1655, the Patriarch Dionysios III, who also became a monk, donated his personal fortune for the return to the cenobitic life but again these attempts were insufficient and the peculiar monasticism remained until the 20th century ( 1914 ), when there were new attempts for the return to the cenobitic life but without results.

Legrenzi resigned from his position at Bergamo towards the end of 1655, and in 1656 became maestro di cappella at the Academy of the Holy Spirit in Ferrara.

The petition was granted, and Indang became full-fledged town in 1655.

Bernini's patron was Fabio Chigi, who became pope Alexander VII in 1655.

On 21 August 1655 he became a naturalised Danish noble.

In 1654 he was again in Ireland, and after making certain recommendations to his father, now lord protector, with regard to the government of that country, he became major-general of the forces in Ireland and a member of the Irish council of state, taking up his new duties in July 1655.

The kingdom of Poland proper, which had hitherto suffered but little either from the Chmielnicki Uprising or from the recurring invasion of the Russians and Ottomans, now became the scene of terrible disturbances ( 1655 – 1658 ).

Later, it was renamed Banahao which became an integral part of the old district of Caraga, a town founded on June 29, 1655.

Within a few years ( 1655 ) he became the head of the guild and received orders to deliver two chimney pieces for rooms in the new town hall designed by Jacob van Campen, and four more for the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

* Henri Chabot ( 1616 – 1655 ), French nobleman who became Duke of Rohan

In 1655, he became the Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge – then the seat of Puritan thought.