Editing 1655 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; Battle of [[Ghar al Milh|Porto Farina]], [[Tunis]]: English admiral [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]]'s fleet defeats the [[Barbary Coast|Barbary]] pirates.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Authors |first1=Multiple |title=Early Modern Wars 1500–1775 |date=17 September 2013 |publisher=Amber Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-78274-121-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_GxAgAAQBAJ&q=april+14,+1655 |chapter=Tunisia|access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander VII]] (born Fabio Chigi) succeeds [[Pope Innocent X]], as the 237th [[pope]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Delbeke |first1=Maarten |title="Custos Montium". A Prophecy on the Election of Alexander VII in Jean Lepautre's Depiction of the Chapel of Notre Dame de la Paix in the Louvre |journal=Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte |date=2009 |volume=72 |issue=3 |pages=369–388 |jstor=40379424 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40379424 |access-date=17 March 2022 |issn=0044-2992}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; The [[Piedmontese Easter]] Massacre of the [[Waldensians]]: [[Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy]] slaughters 1,500 men, women and children; this is memorialized in [[John Milton]]'s sonnet "[[On the Late Massacre in Piedmont]]" and apologized for by [[Pope Francis]] in [[2015]].
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The [[Dutch West India Company]] denies [[Peter Stuyvesant]]'s request to exclude Jews from [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oppenheim |first1=Samuel |title=The Early History of the Jews in New York, 1654-1664: Some New Matter on the Subject |date=1909 |publisher=Reprint Services Corporation |isbn=978-0-7812-5313-0 |pages=1, 8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3A-AAAAYAAJ&q=The+Dutch+West+India+Company+Peter+Stuyvesant+april+26+1655 |access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Admiral Blake]] severely damages the arsenal of the [[Bey]] of [[Tunis]].
* [[May 10]]&ndash;[[May 27|27]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)|Anglo-Spanish War]]: [[Invasion of Jamaica]] &ndash; Forces of the English Protectorate led by [[William Penn (Royal Navy officer)|William Penn]] and [[Robert Venables]] capture the island of [[Jamaica]] from [[Spain]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Robertson |first=James |date=5 May 2005 |volume=55|issue=5|title=Cromwell and the Conquest of Jamaica |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/cromwell-and-conquest-jamaica |magazine=[[History Today]] |url-access=subscription|access-date=18 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Ariana Nozeman|Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh]] becomes the first actress, in [[Theatre of Van Campen|Amsterdam theater]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schama |first1=Simon |title=The embarrassment of riches : an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age |date=1997 |publisher=New York : Vintage Books |isbn=978-0-679-78124-0 |page=408 |url=https://archive.org/details/embarrassmentofr00simo |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref>