1655 - Events. May 10 - English troops land on Jamaica March 25 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. March 25 - English Civil War Battle of the Severn: A largely Protestant militia defeats a largely Catholic militia for control of Maryland April 7 - Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII April - Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis. August 9 - Oliver Cromwell divides England into distri ...

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Michiel de Ruyter, Michiel de Ruyter - Early Life, Michiel de Ruyter - First Anglo-Dutch War, Michiel de Ruyter - 1655-1663, Michiel de Ruyter - Second Anglo-Dutch War, Michiel de Ruyter - Third Anglo-Dutch War and death

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De Ruyter was born in 1607 in Flushing, son of a beer porter, and became a sailor at the age of 11 in 1618. In 1622 he fought as a musketeer against the Spaniards in the Dutch army under Maurice of Nassau during the relief of Bergen-op-Zoom before once again joining the Dutch merchant fleet, steadily working his way up. In the years between 1623 an 1631, according to English sources he worked in Dublin as an agent for the Vlissingen based merchant house of the Lampsins brothers. Although no Dutch source has any data about his where-abouts in ...

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Michiel de Ruyter, Michiel de Ruyter - Early Life, Michiel de Ruyter - First Anglo-Dutch War, Michiel de Ruyter - 1655-1663, Michiel de Ruyter - Second Anglo-Dutch War, Michiel de Ruyter - Third Anglo-Dutch War and death

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1592 - Events. January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII. Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy 1592 - Births. January 5 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666) January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (died 1655) < ...

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April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining. April 7 - Events. 529 - first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I 1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu 1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. 1655 - Fab ...

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Alexander VII, né Fabio Chigi (February 13, 1599 – May 22, 1667) was pope from April 7, 1655 until his death in 1667. Born in Siena, a member of the illustrious banking family of Chigi and a great-nephew of Pope Paul V, he was privately tutored and eventually received doctorates of philosophy, law, and theology from the University of Siena. In 1627 he began his apprenticeship as vice-legate at Ferrara, and on recommendations from two cardinals he was appointed successively Inquisitor of Malta and nuncio in Colo ...

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Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 - January 27, 1732) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori - Life. The available source materials on Cristofori's life include his birth and death records, two wills, the bills he submitted to his employers, and a single interview done by Scipione Maffei. From the latter, we have both Maffei's notes and the published journal article. Cristofori was born in Padua in the Republic ...

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Bartolomeo Cristofori - The initial reception of the piano Bartolomeo Cristofori - Surviving instruments Bartolomeo Cristofori - Assessments of Cristofori

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In 1664, a year before the Second Anglo-Dutch War officially began, he clashed with the English off the West African coast, where both the English and Dutch had significant slave stations, retaking the Dutch possessions occupied by Robert Holmes and then crossing the Atlantic to raid the British colonies in America. Arriving off Barbados in the Caribbean at the end of April, 1665 aboard his flagship Spiegel, he led his fleet of thirteen vessels into Carlisle Bay, exchanging fire with the English batteries and destroying many of ...

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Michiel de Ruyter, Michiel de Ruyter - Early Life, Michiel de Ruyter - First Anglo-Dutch War, Michiel de Ruyter - 1655-1663, Michiel de Ruyter - Second Anglo-Dutch War, Michiel de Ruyter - Third Anglo-Dutch War and death

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Charles XI (Karl XI) (November 24, 1655 – April 5, 1697) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death. He was the only son of Charles X of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp. Charles XI of Sweden - Under guardian rule. Charles was born in the palace at Stockholm. His father, who died when the child was in his fourth year, left the care of his education to the regents whom he had appointed. So shamefully did they neglect their duty that when, at the age of seventeen, Charles XI attained ...

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See also: Northern Wars Moreover, the commanding political influence which Sweden had now won was considerably neutralized by her loss of moral prestige. On Charles X's accession in 1655, Sweden's neighbours, though suspicious and uneasy, were at least not adversaries, and might have been converted into allies of the new great power who, if she had mulcted them of territory, had, anyhow, compensated them for the loss with the by no means contemptible doisceur of religious liberty. At Charles X's death, five years later, we find ...

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Swedish Empire, Swedish Empire - The Peace of Westphalia, Swedish Empire - Dominions, Swedish Empire - Domestic Consolidation, Swedish Empire - The Peace of Oliva, Swedish Empire - Danish defeat, Swedish Empire - The Scanian War, Swedish Empire - Charles XI

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Following Yamada's death in 1630, the new ruler and usurper king of Siam Prasat Thong (1630-1655) sent an army of 4000 soldiers to destroy the Japanese settlement in Ayutthaya, but many Japanese managed to flee to Cambodia. A few years later in 1633, returnees from Indochina were able to re-establishement the Japanese settlement in Ayutthaya (300-400 Japanese). From 1634, the Shogun, informed of these troubles and what he perceived as attacks ...

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Yamada Nagamasa, Yamada Nagamasa - Japanese settlement in southeast Asia, Yamada Nagamasa - Military involvement and lordship, Yamada Nagamasa - Travels between Siam and Japan, Yamada Nagamasa - End of relations between Siam and Japan

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Intended for the Church, he received a good education but his prospects were changed by the death of his elder brother the German king Ferdinand IV, in July 1654, when he became his father's heir. In 1655 he was chosen king of Hungary and in 1656 king of Bohemia, and in July 1658, more than a year after his father's death, he was elected emperor at Frankfurt in spite of the intrigues of Cardinal Mazarin, who wished to place on the imperial throne Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria, or some other ...

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Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Early life, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Early wars against the Turks, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Wars against France, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Internal problems, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Success against the Turks and in Hungary, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - The Holy Roman Empire, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Private life, Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor - Character and overall assessment

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