1660

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  - 1660s -  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1657 1658 1659 - 1660 - 1661 1662 1663

1660 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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Year 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).

Contents 1 Events of 1660 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1660

January - June

• 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 27 - The Treaty of Copenhagen is signed, marking the conclusion of the Second Northern War.
• 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.

July - December

• 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.

Undated

• 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.
• Absolutism is established in Denmark.

Births

1660 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1660 MDCLX
Ab urbe condita	2413
Armenian calendar	1109 ԹՎ ՌՃԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-184 – -183
Buddhist calendar	2204
Chinese calendar	4296/4356-11-19 (己亥年十一月十九日) — to — 4297/4357-11-30 (庚子年十一月三十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1652 – 1653
Hebrew calendar	5420 – 5421
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1715 – 1716
- Shaka Samvat	1582 – 1583
- Kali Yuga	4761 – 4762
Holocene calendar	11660
Iranian calendar	1038 – 1039
Islamic calendar	1070 – 1071
Japanese calendar	Manji 3 (万治3年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2320 (皇紀2320年)
- Jōmon Era	11660
Julian calendar	1705
Korean calendar	3993
Thai solar calendar	2203
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• 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)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category:1660 births.

Deaths

• 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)

Unknown dates

• Philip Skippon, English soldier

See also Category:1660 deaths.af:1660

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