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March 19, 1655Born on Saturday March 20, 1655
- "Barbe Françoise" Antoinette de Le Flye, Bruges, Belgique († 1717)
- Maria Dedler, Osterzell, Westendorf, Ostallgäu, Bayern, Duitsland
- Etienne de Rosières, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France († 1739)
- Barbara Francesca van La Flye, Brugge, Vlaanderen († 1717)
- Jan Pietersz Gront, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1660)
- Mary Blake Black Pitcher Leonard Willis, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States († 1722)
- Barbe Françoise Antoinette de le Flye, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium // Monterberg († 1717)
- Maria Heddier, Ramsdorf
- Margareta VIRON, Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté, France
- Elisabeth Smekens, Hengstdijk, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1706)
Died on Saturday March 20, 1655
- Stephen Tracy (58)
- Thomas Walker 11 E (53), Northumberland Co., Virginia, Verenigde Staten
- Hans Jagli Schnebli Landes (54), Weiler, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- Joannes "Jan" Peeters (0), Bornem, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Geert Jansen Spanjaerts
- Justine van der Muelen (59), Leiden
- Jan Mattheusen (37)
- Maria Judocus BRUYNOOGHE, Handzame,8610,West-Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
- Cornelia Stoop (75)
- Joannes PEETERS (0), Bornem, 2880, Anvers, Belgique
Born on March 20
- 1532 » Juan de Ribera, Roman Catholic archbishop († 1611)
- 1612 » Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet († 1672)
- 1615 » Dara Shikoh, Indian prince († 1659)
- 1639 » Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine († 1709)
- 1725 » Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan († 1789)
- 1737 » Rama I, Thai king († 1809)
- 1771 » Heinrich Clauren, German author († 1854)
- 1796 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician († 1862)
- 1799 » Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet and author († 1839)
- 1800 » Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica († 1845)
Died on March 20
- 1475 » Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
- 1549 » Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English general and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1508)
- 1568 » Albert, Duke of Prussia (b. 1490)
- 1619 » Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
- 1673 » Augustyn Kordecki, Polish monk (b. 1603)
- 1688 » Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (b. 1642)
- 1730 » Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
- 1746 » Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (b. 1656)
- 1780 » Benjamin Truman, English brewer and businessman (b. 1699)
- 1793 » William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1705)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1655
- This page is only available in Dutch.Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
- February 14 » The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
- March 25 » Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- April 23 » The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
- August 23 » Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- December 18 » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
- December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.