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 in topic: Literature – Science - State leaders

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
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 28 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
September – Daniel Defoe, English writer (d. 1731)
December 4 – André Campra, French composer (d. 1744)

Deaths

February 23 – Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
August 6 – Diego Velásquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
October 14 – Thomas Harrison, British soldier (b. 1606)

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