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{{Year in England|1655}}Events from the year 1655 in England. Incumbents- Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell
- Parliament – First Protectorate (until 22 January)
Events- 22 January – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the First Protectorate Parliament.[1]
- 11 March–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]
- 17 May – 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 December – 18 December: the Whitehall Conference is convened by Cromwell to debate the Resettlement of the Jews in England.[2]
Ongoing events- Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660
Publications- John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum, first work on differential calculus.[3]
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)
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=266}}
2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1655.htm|title=1655, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-20|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031359/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1655.htm|archivedate=30 September 2007}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=185–186|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
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