1655 in England

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Events from the year 1655 in The Protectorate.

Incumbents

• Lord Protector - Oliver Cromwell

Events

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

Ongoing events

• Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660

Publications

• John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum, first work on differential calculus.

Births

• 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

• 31 January (bur.) - Anthony Stapley, Regicide (born 1590)
• February - George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, (born 1620)
• 18 March - Father Richard Smith, Bishop (born 1568)
• 16 May - John Penruddock, Cavalier (born 1619) (executed)
• after May - Elizabeth Alkin, Parliamentarian publisher, nurse and spy (born c. 1600)
• by 9 June - Thomas Mauleverer, Member of Parliament and Regicide (born 1599)
• 26 June - Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway, (born 1594)
• 19 November - Stephen Marshall, clergyman (born 1594)