Page 2: Historical Events In 1655

Aug 29   Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw   

Sep 03   Jan W van Brederode, Dutch governor/field marshal, dies at 56.   

Sep 07   Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)   

Sep 12   Sebastien de Brossard, composer.   

Sep 19   Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer.   

Sep 26   Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware   

Oct 09   Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow.   

Oct 15   Jews of Lublin are massacred.   

Oct 24   Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63.   

Nov 03   England and France sign miltary and economic treaties.   

Nov 24   Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97).   

Nov 24   English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans   

Dec 04   Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1655 birth of christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)   

Jan 06   In the year 1655 birth of eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)   

Jan 14   Angelo Predieri, composer was born in the year 1655.   

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand)   

Feb 03   On this day in history birth of francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized   

Feb 07   On this day in history birth of jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)   

Apr 08   In the year 1655 birth of louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden)   

Jan 07   In the year 1655 innocentius X, [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at 80   

Feb 25   Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580) died in the year 1655.   

Mar 29   On this day in history valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66   

Apr 06   In the year 1655 death of david Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)   

Apr 14   Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.   

Apr 30   In the year 1655 death of eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)   

Jun 30   On this day in history jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81   

Jul 15   Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570) died in the year 1655.