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| 1654 |
| | | Otto von Guericke uses sixteen horses to demonstrate in Regensburg the power of a vacuum | |
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| c. 1655 |
| | | The painter Pieter de Hooch is a friendly guide through the welcoming spaces of the seventeenth-century Dutch courtyard and home | |
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| c. 1655 |
| | | Diego Velazquez paints his only surviving female nude, The Toilet of Venus (known as the Rokeby Venus) | |
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| c. 1655 |
| | | George Fox begins preaching in England, in a movement which develops into the Society of Friends - or Quakers | |
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| 1655 |
| | | The British, settling in Jamaica, soon turn the island into the major slave market of the West Indies | |
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| 1655 |
| | | Christiaan Huygens, using a home-made telescope, describes accurately the rings of Saturn and discovers the planet's largest moon, Titan | |
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| c. 1656 |
| | | Jews return to England after Cromwell repeals the law of 1290 forbidding their residence in the country | |
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| 1656 |
| | | After a six-month siege, the Dutch capture Colombo from the Portuguese in Sri Lanka | |
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| 1656 |
| | | Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens constructs the first pendulum clock, on Christmas Day in the Hague | |
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| 1656 |
| | | Velazquez, in Las Meninas, paints himself painting the king and queen of Spain | |
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