Editing 1655 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Sai]] ascends to the throne of [[Japan]].
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent X]], leader of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Papal States]], dies after more than 10 years of rule.
* [[February 14]] &ndash; The [[Mapuche]]s launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile, beginning the [[Mapuche uprising of 1655]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia general de Chile|last=Barros Arana|first=Diego|publisher=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes|location=Alicante|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/historia-general-de-chile-tomo-cuarto--0/html/ff2f1efc-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_69.html#I_15_|edition=Digital edition based on the second edition of 2000|volume=4|language=es|author-link=Diego Barros Arana|page=349}}</ref>  
* [[February 16]] &ndash; Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor [[Johan de Witt]] marries Wendela Bicker.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rowen |first1=Herbert Harvey |title=John de Witt, grand pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672 |date=1978 |publisher=Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-05247-2 |pages=100–102 |url=https://archive.org/details/johndewittgrandp0000rowe |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[John Casor]] becomes the first legally recognized slave in what will become the United States, as a court in Northampton County in the [[Colony of Virginia]] issues its decision in the [[Anthony Johnson (colonist)#Casor lawsuit|Casor lawsuit]], the first  instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who has committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Goldsmyth |first1=Samll |last2=Radford |first2=James |last3=Jones |first3=David |last4=Hawkins |first4=Peter |last5=Russell |first5=John H. |title=Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia |journal=The Journal of Negro History |date=June 1916 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=234–235 |doi=10.2307/3035621 |jstor=3035621 |s2cid=149783730 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/3035621 |access-date=16 March 2022 |language=en |issn=0022-2992}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Saturn]]'s largest moon, [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lynn |first1=W.T. |title=The Discovery of Titan |journal=The Observatory |date=1888 |volume=11 |page=338 |bibcode=1888Obs....11..338L |url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1888Obs....11..338L |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref>