1660

January 1

• First entry in Samuel Pepys' diary. [1]
• General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London. [1]
• Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York. [1]

February 2

• Govert Flinck Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at age 45. [1]
• Jean BG duke of Orléans brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at age 51. [1]

February 3

• General Moncks army reaches London. [1]

February 13

• Sweden's King Karl X Gustav dies of a stroke in Göteborg. [7]

February 15

• Klaas Geritsz Compaen Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at age 72. [1]

February 18

• Judith Jansdochter Leyster Dutch painter, buried. [1]

February 23

• Charles X Gustaaf king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at age 37. [1]
• Charles XI becomes king of Sweden. [1]

March 16

• English Long Parliament disbands. [1]

April 4

• English King Charles II ends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion). [1]

April 23

• Sweden concludes peace with Poland at Oliva, near Danzig. The Polish king renounces claims on the Swedish throne, and on Livonia. Brandenburg and Austria agree to evacuate Pomerania. [7]

April 25

• London Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II. [1]

April 30

• Peter Scriverius Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at age 84. [1]

May 3

• Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Austria sign Peace of Oliva. [1]

May 7

• Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni. [1]

May 8

• English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns. [1]

May 23

• King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England. [1]

May 24

• English king Charles II visits Netherlands. [1]

May 25

• English King Charles II lands in Dover. [1]

May 27

• Sweden signs a peace treaty with Denmark at Copenhagen, giving back Bornholm and Trondheim to Denmark. [7]

May 29

• Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth. [1]
• György Rákóczi II prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle. [1]
• Peter Scriverius lawyer/historian, dies at age 44. [1]

September 27

• Saint Vincent de Paul Vincentian Cong founder, dies. [1]

November 15

• First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam. [1]

December 3

• Jacques Sarazin French sculptor/painter, dies at about age 70. [1]

December 15

• Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan. [1]

December 24

• Mary I princess of England, dies at age 29. [1]

1661

January 1

• Pieter Claesz Dutch still life painter, dies at about age 64. [1]

January 3

• Maria Henriëtte Stuart (of Orange) English Princess Royal/eldest daughter of the English king Charles I/mother of English king William III, dies of smallpox at age 29. [1]

January 17

• Andres Malong Philippines rebel leader, executed. [1]

March 8

• Jules Mazarin Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at age 58. [1]

March 9

• Jules Cardinal Mazarin chief minister of France, dies. [1]

March 10

• French King Louis XIV ends office of premier. [1]

March 22

• Hendrick Uylenburgh art dealer, buried at about age 73. [1]

March 24

• William Leddra last Quaker, hanged in Boston. [1]

April 23

• English king Charles II crowned in London. [1]

April 29

• Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan. [1]

April 30

• Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa. [1]

May 3

• Johannes Hevelius observes third transit of Mercury ever to be seen. [1]

May 25

• King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança. [1]

May 27

• Archibald Campbell Scottish politician, beheaded at about age 53. [1]

June 5

• Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge. [1]

June 21

• Sweden signs the Treaty of Kardis, in which Russia agrees to return to Sweden areas it had conquered in the Baltic lands. [7]

July 27

• Parliament confirms the Navigation Act. [1]

September 1

• First Yacht race, England's King Charles versus his brother James. [1]

October 1

• Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James. [1]

December 20

• Corporation Act enforced in England. [1]

1662

January 27

• First American lime kiln begins operation (Providence Rhode Island). [1]

February 1

• Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates. [1]

February 13

• Elisabeth Stuart English daughter of James I, dies at age 65. [1]

February 23

• Johann Crüger German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at age 63. [1]

March 18

• First scheduled bus service, between Porte de Sainte-Antoine and Porte du Luxembourg, in France. Fare is 5 sous. [55.29]

April 4

• Davis Mell composer, dies at age 57. [1]
• Leonhart Kern German sculptor , dies at about age 73. [1]

April 20

• Gerard Terborch the elder, painter, dies. [1]

April 22

• John Tradescant traveller/gardener, dies. [1]
• Royal Society incorporates. [1]

April 23

• Connecticut chartered as an English colony. [1]

April 27

• Netherlands and France sign military covenant. [1]

May 3

• Royal charter granted Connecticut. [1]

May 19

• Uniformity Act of England goes into effect. [1]

June 24

• Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day). [1]

July 15

• Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London. [1]

August 24

• Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer. [1]

September 16

• Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, first known astronomical observation. [1]

1663

January 6

• Great earthquake in New England. [1]

January 10

• King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company. [1]

January 23

• King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Rÿnstaten. [1]

January 29

• Robert Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies. [1]

February 5

• In the St. Lawrence River valley (Canada), an Intensity X earthquake occurs, causing vast landslides along the St. Maurice, Batiscan, and St. Lawrence Rivers. [1] [53]

April 1

• Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty). [1]

April 6

• King Charles II signs Carolina Charter. [1]

April 18

• Osman declares war on Austria. [1]

April 25

• Heinrich Pape composer, dies at age 53. [1]

May 7

• Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens. [1]

July 8

• King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island. [1]

September 13

• First serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia). [1]

December 5

• Severo Bonini composer, dies at age 80. [1]

December

• In England, gold coins are first regularly struck by machine press. The 20-shilling piece is 129 39/89 grains, 22-karat fine, with a little elephant in the design to denote origin of the gold in Africa. These coins become known as the "guinea". [309.49]

1664

January 18

• Moise Amyrault French theologist/vicar, dies. [1]

January 21

• Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army. [1]

March 6

• King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant. [1]

March 12

• First naturalization act in American colonies. [1]
• New Jersey becomes a British colony. [1]

March 24

• Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island. [1]

April 4

• Adam Willaerts Dutch seascape painter, dies. [1]

April 6

• France and Saksen sign alliance. [1]

May 14

• Turkish great Köprülü attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers. [1]

May 28

• First Baptist Church is organized (Boston). [1]

June 15

• New Jersey established. [1]

September 8

• Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to 300 English soldiers. [1]

September 20

• Maryland enacts first anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and black men. [1]

December 15

• English colonizing Connecticut. [1]

1665

January 12

• Pierre de Fermat French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at age 63. [1]

January 21

• Domenico Mazzocchi composer, dies at age 72. [1]
• Pierre de Fermat French mathematician (Fermat theorem), dies at age 63. [1]

February 27

• Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English. [1]

February 28

• Lodewijk van Nassau Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies. [1]

March 4

• English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands. [1]

March 6

• Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing. [1]

March 11

• New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights. [1]

May 5

• Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow. [1]

May 15

• Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme. [1]

May 24

• Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel] Spanish franciscans, dies. [1]

May 31

• Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah. [1]
• Pieter J Saenredam Dutch architectural painter, dies at age 67. [1]

June 12

• England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam). [1] [5]

August 27

• "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is first play performed in N America (Acomac, Virginia). [1]

December 4

• Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand" premieres in Paris. [1]

December 10

• Tarquinio Mercula composer, dies. [1]

December 11

• "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna. [1]

December 30

• "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople. [1]

1666

January 18

• Adriaen A Bloemaert Dutch landscape painter, dies at about age 56. [1]

January 20

• Anna of Austria queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at age 64. [1]

January 24

• Johann Andreas Herbst composer, dies at age 77. [1]

January 26

• France declares war on England and Münster. [1]

February 1

• Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies. [1]

February 16

• Netherlands and Brandenburg sign treaty. [1]

February 24

• Nicholas Lanier composer, dies at age 77. [1]

April 18

• Peace of Kleef Netherlands and bishop Von Galen of Münster. [1]

May 6

• Paul Siefert composer, dies at age 79. [1]

September 1

• Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed. [1]

September 2

• Great Fire of London starts; destroys Saint Paul's Church. [1]

November 14

• Samuel Pepys reports on first blood transfusion (between dogs). [1]

December 30

• Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname. [1]

1667

January 3

• Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo. [1]

January 20

• Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia. [1]

January 30

• Treaty of Andrussovo Russia and Poland sign peace treaty. [1]

February 9

• Treaty of Andrussovo Russia/Poland signs peace treaty. [1]

February 20

• David ben Samuel Halevi rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies. [1]

February 25

• Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River. [1]

February 27

• Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname. [1]

February 28

• English colony Suriname in Dutch hands. [1]

March 31

• France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord. [1]

April 9

• (to April 23) First public art exhibition, held by Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture at Palais-Royale in Paris, France. [1] [55.19]

May 6

• Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/composer, dies at age 50. [1]

May 7

• Johann Jakob Froberger German organist/singer/composer, dies at age 50. [1]

May 9

• Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers French Queen of Poland (1645-48). [1]

May 14

• Georges de Scudéry French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at age 65. [1]

May 22

• Alexander VII [Fabio Chigi] Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at age 68. [1]

May 23

• King Afonso VI of Portugal flees. [1]

May 24

• French troops attack into Southern Netherlands. [1]

June 12

• First blood transfusion to a human, nine ounces of blood from a lamb to a 15-year-old boy in France. [55.25]

August 27

• Earliest recorded hurricane in USA (Jamestown, Virginia). [1]

December 15

• Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War. [1]

1668

January 19

• King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain. [1]

January 23

• England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French. [1]

February 7

• Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace". [1]

February 13

• Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes Portugal. [1]

February 23

• Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued. [1]

March 25

• First horse race in America takes place. [1]

March 26

• England takes control of Bombay India. [1]

March 27

• Clemens Thieme composer, dies at age 36. [1]
• English King Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company. [1]

April 13

• John Dryden (36) becomes first English poet laureate. [1]

May 2

• First peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands. [1]
• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution. [1]

May 15

• A private bank is taken over by the Swedish State Government, becoming the Riksbank, the first national bank in the world. [7]

May 23

• Philips Wouwerman Haarlems painter, buried. [1]

June 4

• The University of Lund (Academia Carolina Conciliatrix) is founded in Sweden. [7]

July 7

• Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge. [1]

December 13

• Jean Racines "Britannicus" premieres in Paris. [1]

December 22

• Stephen Day first British colonial printer, dies. [1]

1669

January 19

• Leo Allatios Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about age 82. [1]

January 27

• Gaspar de Crayer Flemish painter, dies at age 87. [1]

February 1

• Abandoned child Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at age 31. [1]
• French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion. [1]

February 23

• Lieuwe van Aitzema Frisian historian, dies at age 68. [1]

March 11

• Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000. [1]

March 23

• Philipp Buchner composer, dies at age 54. [1]

March 25

• Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000. [1]

May 2

• Pieter Jansz Post master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at age 61. [1]

May 16

• Pietro da Cortona [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies. [1]
• Reyer Anslo writer/poet, dies at about age 42. [1]

May 20

• Joris van der Hagen landscape painter, dies. [1]

May 24

• Pieter Cuypers South Netherlands lawyer, dies at age 48. [1]

December 9

• Clement IX [Giulio Rospigliosi] Italian Pope (1667-69), dies. [1]

December 20

• First jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery. [1]

December 31

• France and Brandenburg sign secret treaty. [1]