1660

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

• 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

• 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 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)