[caption id=“attachment_5156” align=“alignleft” width=“369”] Amsterdam Town Hall by Gerrit Berckheyde (today the Royal Palace)[/caption]

In the year 1655, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered (Mar 25), the Dutch West India Company denies Peter Stuyvesant’s request to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam (Manhattan) (Apr 26), English troops land on Jamaica (May 10), the Amsterdam Town Hall is inaugurated (Jul 20), Peter Stuyvesant, as the governor of New Netherland, attacks the New Sweden (Delaware) colony (Aug), Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies Warsaw (Sep 8) and Krákow (Oct 19) - and all these fine people were born:

1655-xxxx Petrus Georgii Salmenius** father of Enoch Salmenius - Sweden-Finland (c. 1715/) 1655-xxxx David von Krafft* German-Swedish painter - Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (1724/c.69) 1655-0105 John Coney* goldsmith/silversmith - Boston, Massachusetts County, British America (1722/67) 1655-0106 Jacob Bernoulli* mathematician - Basel, Switzerland (1705/50) 1655-0119 John Evelyn the Younger* translator - England (1699/44) 1655-0121 Antonio Molinari* painter - Venice, Republic of Venice (1704/49) 1655-0122 William Kidd* sailor/captain executed for piracy - Dundee, Scotland (1701/47) 1655-0207 Jean-François Regnard* comic poet/dramatist/travel diarist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1709/54) 1655-0228 Johann Beer* author/court official/composer - St. Georgen, Attergau, Austria (1700/45) 1655-0303 Fra Galgario* (b Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi) Italian painter - Bergamo (1743/88) 1655-0426 Ofspring Blackall (B) religious controversialist/Bishop of Exeter - London, England (1716/61) 1655-0504 Bartolomeo Cristofori* maker of musical instruments/inventor of the piano (around 1700) - Padua, Republic of Venice (1731/75) 1655-0611 Antonio Cifrondi* Italian painter - Clusone (1730/75) 1655-0707 Christoph Dientzenhofer* architect - Brannenburg, Bavaria, Germany (1722/66) 1655-0813 Johann Christoph Denner* German woodwind instrument maker/inventor of the clarinet - Leipzig (1707/51) 1655-1116 Alessandro Gherardini* Italian painter - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1726/70) 1655-1124 King Charles XI of Sweden*  Tre Kronor, Stockholm, Sweden (1697/41) 1655-1201 Bendix Grodtschilling the Younger* Danish painter - Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (1707/51) Updated 13.4.2023-3 Search for another year here