Historical Events In 1655

May 10 Jamaica captured by English

Feb 16 Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker

Apr 04 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis English fleet beats Barbarian pirates

Aug 28 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service

Oct 15 Jews of Lublin are massacred

Jul 28 Cyrano De Bergerac French soldier, author died

Mar 25 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)

Mar 03 Montreal physician offers Canada's first medical insurance