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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).

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 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)

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