1660

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1660
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1660

January–June

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.

July–December

August 19 – Dr Edward Stanley preached the sermon in the nave of Winchester Cathedral to commemorate the return of the Chapter following the Restoration.
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.

Undated

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.

Births

**1660 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1660 MDCLX
Ab urbe condita	2413
Armenian calendar	1109 ԹՎ ՌՃԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-184 – -183
Bengali calendar	1067
Berber calendar	2610
Buddhist calendar	2204
Burmese calendar	1022
Byzantine calendar	7168 – 7169
Chinese calendar	己亥年十一月十九日 (4296/4356-11-19) — to — 庚子年十一月三十日 (4297/4357-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1376 – 1377
Ethiopian calendar	1652 – 1653
Hebrew calendar	5420 – 5421
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1716 – 1717
- 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)
Korean calendar	3993
Thai solar calendar	2203

January – Pierre Helyot, French historian (d. 1716)
February 19 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
March 15 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (d. 1740)
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)
Ch'en Shu, Chinese painter (d. 1736)

See also Category:1660 births.

Deaths

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)