Year by year · 17th century
1655
1655 in world history: 6 events, 7 births, 7 deaths, 1 state founded and 2 that came to an end. 1,136 recorded states existed that year.
Events
Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan
Using a telescope he had built with his brother, Huygens found Saturn's largest moon. Titan is now known to have a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane.
Event
Piedmontese Easter
The Piedmontese Easter was the massacre of Waldensian Protestants in the valleys west of Turin by troops of the Duchy of Savoy in April 1655.
Treaty
Union of Kėdainiai
The Union of Kėdainiai was an agreement signed in October 1655 at Kėdainiai in Lithuania by Janusz Radziwiłł and other Lithuanian nobles with Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
Wars and longer events
Born in 1655 7
Died in 1655 7
States founded 1
States that came to an end 2
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