1655

events

politics and world happening

• beginning of the Swedish-Polish war
• beginning of the English Spanish of war
• beginning of the fork time on the Färöern
• Christiaan Huygens discovers the Saturnmond titanium 7 for the first time with a built

• telescope. April: Fabio Chigi becomes a Pope Alexander VII.
• 10. May: Jamaica of the Englishmen conquers
• 14. October: Solemn opening of the old University of Duisburg

Culture

• 4. November: Premiere of the musical drama L'Argia of Antonio Cesti born in

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• 1. January: Christian Thomasius, German lawyer and philosopher († 1728)
• 6. January (27. December 1654 A. Pc.): The Jakobs Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist († 1705)
• 28. February: Johann Beer, Austrian writer and composer († 1700)
• 8. April: Ludwig William I., „the Turk Louis in such a way specified “(† 1707)
• 13. May: Innozenz XIII. (Pope), under the name Innozenz XIII. Pope from 1721 to 1724 and originated from the family († 1724)
• 4. October: Lothar Franz of beautiful fount, bishop of the diocese Bamberg (1693-1729) and archbishopthe diocese Mainz (1694-1729) († 1729)
• 4. December: Karl XI., King of Sweden and in personnel union duke of two-bridges from 1660 to 1697 († 1697)

died

• 7. January: Giovanni Battista Pamfili, as Innozenz X. Pope from 1644 to 1655 (* 1574)
• 25. February: Daniel Heinsius, scholar of the Netherlands Renaissance (* 1580)
• 3. Aprik: Andrzej Niżankowski, Polish organist and composer (around 1580)
• 27. June: Eleonora Gonzaga, youngest daughter of Vincenzo I. Gonzaga, duke of Mantua (* 1598)
• 24. July: Friedrich of Logau, poet of the baroque (* 1605)
• 28. July: Cyrano of Bergerac, French writer (* 1619)
• 7. August: Prasat Thong, king of Ayutthaya in Thailand
• 24. October: Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and physicist (* 1592)