Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II of England

Events

• 4 March - Beginning of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 6 March - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication.
• 12 April - the first recorded victim of the Great Plague of London dies.
• 13 June - Second Anglo-Dutch War: English naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft.
• 2 August - Second Anglo-Dutch War: Dutch naval victory at the Battle of Vågen.
• 9 October - the Cavalier Parliament assembles in Oxford to avoid the Plague in London.
• 31 October - Parliament passes the Five Mile Act against Non-conformist ministers.
• 7 November - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

Births

• 6 February - Queen Anne of Great Britain (died 1714)
• March - Sir William Strickland, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1724)
• 1 May - John Woodward, naturalist (died 1728)
• 27 August - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, politician (died 1751)
• September - Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1726)
• 5 November - Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1701)
• 28 December - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, general (died 1716)
• William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor (died 1723)
• Charles Gildon, writer (died 1724)
• Benjamin Johnson, actor (died 1742)

Deaths

• 1 March - Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, soldier and politician (born 1612)
• 3 June - Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Portland, (born 1639)
• July - Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, (born c. 1640)
• 11 July - Kenelm Digby, privateer (born 1603)
• 25 August - Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, (born c.1621)
• 17 November - John Earle, bishop (born c.1601)
• Walter Acton, Member of Parliament (born c.1620)

References

See also