1655 in England

Events from the year 1655 in England.

Incumbents

22 January – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the First Protectorate Parliament.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/266|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/266 266]}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1655.htm|title=1655, British Civil Wars|access-date=2007-09-20|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031359/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1655.htm|archive-date=30 September 2007}}
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.

John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum, first work on differential calculus.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=185–186|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}

11 January – Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, politician and soldier (died 1701)
23 April (bapt.) – Andrew Allam, writer (died 1685)
25 April – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (died 1700)
3 June – William Nicolson, bishop and antiquary (died 1727)
20 July – Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville, statesman (died 1701)
12 November – Francis Nicholson, military officer and colonial governor (died 1728)
28 December – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1698)
Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1696)

31 January (bur.) – Anthony Stapley, politician and regicide (born 1590)
February – George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, royalist peer (smallpox) (born 1620)
18 March – Richard Smith, Catholic bishop (in France) (born 1568)
16 May – John Penruddock, Cavalier (executed) (born 1619)
after May – Elizabeth Alkin, Parliamentarian publisher, nurse and spy (born c. 1600)
by 9 June – Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament and regicide (born 1599)
26 June – Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway, politician, royalist military commander and bibliophile (in France) (born 1594)
19 November – Stephen Marshall, nonconformist minister (born 1594)
December – Robert Cox, comic performer