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