1655

1655 (MDCLV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1655th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 655th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1655, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1655 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1655 MDCLV
Ab urbe condita	2408
Armenian calendar	1104 ԹՎ ՌՃԴ
Assyrian calendar	6405
Balinese saka calendar	1576–1577
Bengali calendar	1062
Berber calendar	2605
English Regnal year	6 Cha. 2 – 7 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2199
Burmese calendar	1017
Byzantine calendar	7163–7164
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4351 or 4291     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4352 or 4292
Coptic calendar	1371–1372
Discordian calendar	2821
Ethiopian calendar	1647–1648
Hebrew calendar	5415–5416
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1711–1712
- Shaka Samvat	1576–1577
- Kali Yuga	4755–4756
Holocene calendar	11655
Igbo calendar	655–656
Iranian calendar	1033–1034
Islamic calendar	1065–1066
Japanese calendar	Jōō 4 / Meireki 1 (明暦元年)
Javanese calendar	1577–1578
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3988
Minguo calendar	257 before ROC 民前257年
Nanakshahi calendar	187
Thai solar calendar	2197–2198
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1781 or 1400 or 628     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1782 or 1401 or 629

Events

• March 25 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
• April 7 – Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII
• April – Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis.
• May 7 Pope Alexander VII is chosen to be pope.
• May 10 – English troops land on Jamaica
• August 9 – Oliver Cromwell divides England into districts under major-generals
• New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces.
• The Bibliotheca Thysiana is erected, the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building that was designed as a library.
• Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of Japan