1660

Years: 1657 1658 1659 - 1660 - 1661 1662 1663

Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1660 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

• Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces.
• 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. On May 29 he arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration
• May 25 - Charles II of England crowned
• June 29 - John Thurloe released
• 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).
• Theaters opened again 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.

Births

• January - Pierre Helyot, French historian (d. 1716)
• February 19 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
• April 16 - Hans Sloane, British physician (d. 1753)
• May 2 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
• May 20 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
• May 28 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
• May 29 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Queen Anne of England (d. 1744)
• July 24 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
• September - Daniel Defoe, English writer (d. 1731)
• October 20 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
• October 21 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (d. 1734)
• November 15 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
• November 20 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
• December 4 - André Campra, French composer (d. 1744)

See also @ 1660 births.

Deaths

• February 2 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
• February 2 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
• February 13 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
• April 25 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
• April 30 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576)
• May 29 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
• June 1 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (hanged)
• June 30 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
• August 6 - Diego Velásquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
• September 27 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
• October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
• October 6 - Paul Scarron, French writer
• October 14 - Thomas Harrison, British soldier (b. 1606)
• October 17 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
• November 5 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
• November 5 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
• December 1 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
• December 22 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1612)

See also @ 1660 deaths.