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In 1655 Tortuga was reoccupied by English and French interlopers under Elias Watts, who secured a commission from Col. William Brayne, acting as military Governor on Jamaica, to serve as " Governor " of Tortuga.
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In 1655 the newly established English administration on Jamaica sponsored the re-occupation of Tortuga under Elias Watts as Governor.
Some of the best-known pirate bases were New Providence, in the Bahamas from 1715 to 1725, Tortuga established in the 1640s and Port Royal after 1655.
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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.
In early 1655 he was arrested at Whetstone, Leicestershire and taken to London under armed guard.
He held many college offices, becoming successively lecturer in Greek ( 1651 ), mathematics ( 1653 ), and humanity ( 1655 ), praelector ( 1657 ), junior dean ( 1657 ), and college steward ( 1659 and 1660 ); and according to the habit of the time, he was accustomed to preach in his college chapel and also at Great St Mary's, long before he took holy orders on 23 December 1660.
In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670.
Spanish Jamaica was subject to many privateer attacks, before the final conquest of the island by the English in 1655.
In 1655 he was appointed hakham of that city.
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.
The Mosquito Coast based on Bluefields on the Atlantic was claimed by the United Kingdom as a protectorate from 1655 to 1850.
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.
Pope Alexander VII ( 13 February 1599 – 22 May 1667 ), born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from 7 April 1655, until his death.
When Innocent X died, Chigi, the candidate favoured by Spain, was elected pope after eighty days in the conclave, on 7 April 1655, taking the name of Alexander VII.
After her abdication the queen came to reside in Rome, where she was confirmed in her baptism by the Pope, in whom she found a generous friend and benefactor, on Christmas Day, 1655.
Pope Innocent X ( 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655 ), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj ( or Pamphili ), was Pope from 1644 to 1655.
Pope Innocent XIII ( 13 May 1655 – 7 March 1724 ) was pope from 1721 until his death.
In 1655, he sailed into the Delaware River with a fleet of seven vessels and about 700 men and took possession of the colony of New Sweden, which was renamed " New Amstel.
His father's first cousin, Sir Richard Pepys, was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, and appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, on 25 September 1655.
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.
The revolt was easily put down by forces loyal to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, and for his part in the rebellion Penruddock was beheaded in May 1655.
Year 1655 ( MDCLV ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
New Sweden (, ) was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655.
The Swedish settlement was incorporated into Dutch New Netherland on September 15, 1655.
Portugal annexed territories in the region which were ruled as a colony from 1655, and Angola was incorporated as an overseas province of Portugal in 1951.
In 1655, Huygens proposed that Saturn was surrounded by a solid ring, " a thin, flat ring, nowhere touching, and inclined to the ecliptic.
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In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.
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.
In 1651, the Dutch, reinvigorated by the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, established a fort at present-day New Castle, and in 1655 they conquered the New Sweden colony, annexing it into the Dutch New Netherland.
In 1655, Oliver Cromwell dispatched a fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir William Penn, to conquer Santo Domingo.
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.
* 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
* 1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
Although the Cossacks were defeated in 1651 in the battle of Beresteczko, Khmelnytsky sought help from Russian tsar, and by the Treaty of Pereyaslav Russia dominated and partially occupied the eastern lands of the Commonwealth since 1655.
Drawn by J. J. Chifflet in 1655.
" The Knight's Dream ", 1655, by Antonio de Pereda
Allenstein was sacked by Swedish troops in 1655 and 1708 during the Polish-Swedish wars, and the town's population was nearly wiped out in 1710 by epidemics of bubonic plague and cholera.
In 1655, a Dutch military campaign led by New Netherland Director-General Peter Stuyvesant took control of the Swedish colony, ending its claim to independence, although the Swedish and Finnish settlers continued to have their own militia, religion, and court, and to enjoy substantial autonomy under the Dutch.
Engraving of Queen Elizabeth I, William Cecil and Sir Francis Walsingham, by William Faithorne, 1655
An expedition sent by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 attacked the city of Santo Domingo, but was defeated.
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Meanwhile the English captured Jamaica in 1655 and soon were seeking allies on the coast, and hit upon the Miskito, whose king Jeremy visited Jamaica in 1687.
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.
** John Danvers, English politician ( d. 1655 )
* July – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician ( b. 1655 )
* The English admiral William Penn seized Jamaica in 1655 and it remained under British rule for over 300 years.
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.
* Richard Smith ( bishop ) ( 1568 – 1655 ), English Catholic Bishop, titular of Chalcedon in Asia Minor
1655 English print depicting the Amboyna massacre of 1623, which was deployed by the English party that favoured war with the Dutch for propaganda purposes in the years leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The Pequot were taken under English protection in 1655 following the Pequot War.
* Henry Manning ( d. 1655 ), English spy
* Sir Henry Vane the Elder ( 1589 – 1655 ), English courtier, father of Henry Vane the Younger
Stephen Marshall ( c. 1594 – 1655 ) was an English Nonconformist churchman.
However, shortly after the English captured Jamaica in 1655, they recommenced relations with the coast, and Oldman went to visit England.
Following the establishment of The Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell, who believed in freedom of conscience, Digby was received by the government as a sort of unofficial representative of English Roman Catholics, and was sent in 1655 on a mission to the Papacy to try to reach an understanding.
The first English settlers arrived around 1640, and in 1655, several purchased Brookhaven's land from its Tribal inhabitants.
* William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby ( c. 1655 – 1702 ), English nobleman
In 1655, the English removed the tribe from Uncas ' authority.
Sir John Danvers ( 1588 – 1655 ) was an English courtier and politician.
His published books include The English Physician ( 1652 ) and the Complete Herbal ( 1653 ), which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick ( 1655 ), which is one of the most detailed documents we have on the practice of medical astrology in Early Modern Europe.
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, PC, FRS ( 25 April 1655 – 10 July 1700 ), known as Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, from 1675 to 1696, was an English politician.
When the English conquered Jamaica in 1655, they renamed the capital Spanish Town.
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