1660

1660

Events of 1660

January - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins his advance towards London in support of the English Restoration.
January 1 - Samuel Pepys begins his diary.
February 2 - George Monck and his regiment arrive in London.
February 13 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Charles X Gustavus.
February 27 - John Thurloe is reinstated as England's secretary of State, having been deprived of his offices late in the previous year.
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 is arrested for high treason for his support of Oliver Cromwell's regime.
May 23 - King Charles II of England arrives in Britain.
May 25 - Charles II of England is 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 is released from custody.

September 25 - Samuel Pepys has his first cup of tea, an event recorded in his diary.
October 17 - The 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 of Pangasinan, Philippines, leads a revolt against the Spanish regime.

Theaters reopen in England - Margaret Hughes debuts as the first female actor as Desdemona in Othello.
Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.
Sweden recovers its southern provinces from Denmark.
The expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique is carried out by French occupying forces.
Hopkins School is founded.
Absolutism is established in Denmark.
A permanent standing army is established in Prussia.

See also Category:1660 births.

February 2
- Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
- Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
February 13 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
March - Philip Skippon, English soldier
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) (b. c. 1611)
June 7 - George II Rákóczi, Transylvanian ruler (b. 1621)
June 30 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
August 6 - Diego Velásquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
September 12 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (b. 1577)
September 27 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
October 6 - Paul Scarron, French writer (b. 1610)
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)
- 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)

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