1655 in England
Events from the year 1655 in England.
Incumbents
Events
- 22 January – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the First Protectorate Parliament.
- 11–14 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.
- 10–27 May – Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica – Forces led by 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.
- 4–18 December – Whitehall Conference 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
- 23 April – Andrew Allam, writer
- 25 April – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician
- 3 June – William Nicolson, bishop and antiquary
- 20 July – Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, statesman
- 12 November – Francis Nicholson, military officer and colonial governor
- 28 December – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty
- Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet, politician
Deaths
- 31 January – Anthony Stapley, politician and regicide
- February – George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, royalist peer
- 18 March – Richard Smith, Catholic bishop
- 16 May – John Penruddock, Cavalier
- after May – Elizabeth Alkin, Parliamentarian publisher, nurse and spy
- by 9 June – Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament and regicide
- 26 June – Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway, politician, royalist military commander and bibliophile
- 19 November – Stephen Marshall, nonconformist minister
- December – Robert Cox, comic performer