1655 in England

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Events from the year 1655 in England.

## Incumbents

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* Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell

## Events

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* 22 January – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the First Protectorate Parliament.[1]
* 11–14 March – Penruddock uprising: a Royalist uprising beginning in Wiltshire is defeated by a skirmish in South Molton.[1]
* 28 April – Admiral Robert Blake destroys the pirate fleet of the bey of Tunis.[1]
* 10–27 May – Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica – Forces led by William Penn and Robert Venables capture the island of Jamaica from Spain.[2]
* 9 August – the Rule of the Major-Generals, a period of direct military government, begins.[1]
* 24 November – Anglican services prohibited by Cromwell.[1]
* 4–18 December – Whitehall Conference convened by Cromwell to debate the Resettlement of the Jews in England.[2]

### Ongoing events

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* Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660

## Publications

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* John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum, first work on differential calculus.[3]

## Births

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* 11 January – Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, politician and soldier (died 1701)
* 23 April (bapt.) – Andrew Allam, writer (died 1685)
* 25 April – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (died 1700)
* 3 June – William Nicolson, bishop and antiquary (died 1727)
* 20 July – Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, statesman (died 1701)
* 12 November – Francis Nicholson, military officer and colonial governor (died 1728)
* 28 December – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1698)
* Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1696)

## Deaths

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* 31 January (bur.) – Anthony Stapley, politician and regicide (born 1590)
* February – George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, royalist peer (smallpox) (born 1620)
* 18 March – Richard Smith, Catholic bishop (in France) (born 1568)
* 16 May – John Penruddock, Cavalier (executed) (born 1619)
* after May – Elizabeth Alkin, Parliamentarian publisher, nurse and spy (born c. 1600)
* by 9 June – Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament and regicide (born 1599)
* 26 June – Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway, politician, royalist military commander and bibliophile (in France) (born 1594)
* 19 November – Stephen Marshall, nonconformist minister (born 1594)
* December – Robert Cox, comic performer

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 266. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. ^ a b "1655, British Civil Wars". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-20.
3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 185–186\. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.185-186&rft.pub=Century+Ltd&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-7126-5616-2&rft.aulast=Palmer&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft.au=Palmer,+Veronica&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1655+in+England" class="Z3988">

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