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1660 (
MDCLX) was a
leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events
*
January 1 -
Colonel George Monck with his
regiment crosses from
Scotland to
England at the village of
Coldstream and begins advance towards
London in support of
English Restoration.
Samuel Pepys began his diary.
*
February 2 –
George Monck and his regiment arrive in
London.
*
February 23 -
Charles XI becomes
king of Sweden.
*
February 27 –
John Thurloe reinstated as
England's
secretary of State for a short time.
*
March 16 - The
Long Parliament disbands.
*
May 8 - The
Parliament of England declares
Prince Charles Stuart King
Charles II of England.
*
May 15 -
John Thurloe arrested for
high treason after
English Restoration.
*
May 23 - King
Charles II of England reaches the shores of his Kingdom.
*
May 25 –
Charles II of England crowned.
*
May 29 - King
Charles II of England arrives in
London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the
English Restoration.
*
June 29 -
John Thurloe released.
*
October 17 - Ten Regicides - men who signed the death warrant of
Charles I - are drawn and quartered, a process which includes their being disemboweled and their bowels burned before their eyes.
*
November 28 - At
Gresham College, 12 men, including
Christopher Wren,
Robert Boyle,
John Wilkins, and
Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found "a
College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning}" (later known as the
Royal Society).
*
December -
Andres Malong, a native chieftain, leads a revolt against the Spanish in the Philippines.
Unknown dates
*
Theaters reopened in
England –
Margaret Hughes debuts as the first female actor as
Desdemona in
Othello.
*
Blaise Pascal's
The Provincial Letters, a defense of the
Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, was ordered shredded and burned by King
Louis XIV of France.
*
Sweden recovers its southern provinces from
Denmark.
*
Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from
Martinique by
French occupying forces.
*
Hopkins School is founded.
Births
* January -
Pierre Helyot, French historian (died
1716)
*
February 19 -
Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (died
1742)
*
March 15 -
Olof Rudbeck the Younger, swedish scientist and explorer (died
1740.)
*
April 16 -
Hans Sloane, British physician (died
1753)
*
May 2 -
Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (died
1725)
*
May 20 -
Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (died
1714)
*
May 28 - King
George I of Great Britain (died
1727)
*
May 29 -
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of
Queen Anne of England (died
1744)
*
July 24 -
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (died
1718)
* September -
Daniel Defoe, English writer (died
1731)
*
October 20 -
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (died
1723)
*
October 21 -
Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (died
1734)
*
November 15 -
Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (died
1746)
*
November 20 -
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (died
1741)
*
December 4 -
André Campra, French composer (died
1744)
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*
Philip Skippon, English soldier
*
February 2 -
Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (born
1615)
*February 2 -
Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (born
1608)
*
February 13 - King
Charles X of Sweden (born
1622)
*
April 25 -
Henry Hammond, English churchman (born
1605)
*
April 30 -
Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (born
1576)
*
May 29 -
Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (born
1615)
*
June 1 -
Mary Dyer, English Quaker (hanged) (born c.
1611)
*
June 30 -
William Oughtred, English mathematician (born
1575)
*
August 6 -
Diego Velásquez, Spanish painter (born
1599)
*
September 12 -
Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (born
1577)
*
September 27 -
Vincent de Paul, French saint (born
1580)
*
October 4 -
Francesco Albani, Italian painter (born
1578)
*
October 6 -
Paul Scarron, French writer (born
1610)
*
October 14 -
Thomas Harrison, British soldier (born
1606)
*
October 17 -
Adrian Scrope, English regicide (born
1601)
*
November 5 -
Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (born
1599)
*November 5 -
Alexandre de Rhodes, French
Jesuit missionary (born
1591)
*
December 1 -
Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (born
1592)
*
December 22 -
André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (born
1612)
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