1660 in England
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1660 in England:

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Events from the year 1660 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - (From 29 May) Charles II of England

Events

• 1 January
  • Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration.¹
  • Samuel Pepys begins his diary.²
• 3 February - George Monck and his regiment arrive in London.³
• 27 February - John Thurloe reinstated as England's secretary of State for a short time.
• 16 March - The Long Parliament disbands.
• 4 April - Declaration of Breda promises amnesty, freedom of conscience, and army back pay, in return for the Restoration of the Crown.³
• 25 April - Convention Parliament meets to discuss the Restoration.³
• 1 May - The Parliament of England declares Prince Charles Stuart King Charles II of England.³
• 15 May - John Thurloe arrested for high treason.
• 23 May - Charles II reaches the shores of his Kingdom.
• 29 May - Charles II arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration.³ Oak Apple Day is set aside as a public holiday.
• 29 June - John Thurloe released.
• 27 August - The books of John Milton are burnt because of his attacks on King Charles II.²
• 25 September - one of the earliest references to tea in England appears in Samuel Pepys's diary.²
• 13 October - ten regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I are hanged, drawn and quartered.³
• 25 October - King Charles proposes that some Presbyterian ministers become bishops to heal rifts in the Church; the plan is later abandoned.³
• 11 November - Imprisonment of John Bunyan for preaching without a licence.²
• 28 November - At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and 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).²

Undated

• Theatres reopened — Margaret Hughes debuts as the first female actor as Desdemona in Othello.⁴
• Robert Boyle publishes his landmark book New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects. The second edition in 1662 would contain the important Boyle's Law.
• King Charles II founds the Post Office.
• William Juxon enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Births

• 16 April - Hans Sloane, physician (died 1753)
• 28 May - King George I of Great Britain (died 1727)
• 29 May - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, friend of Queen Anne (died 1744)
• 24 July - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, politician (died 1718)
• September - Daniel Defoe, writer (died 1731)
• 20 October - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, statesman (died 1723)

Deaths

• 25 April - Henry Hammond, churchman (born 1605)
• 1 June - Mary Dyer, Quaker (hanged) (born c. 1611)
• 30 June - William Oughtred, mathematician (born 1575)
• 18 September - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (born 1639)
• 14 October - Thomas Harrison, soldier (born 1606)
• 17 October - Adrian Scrope, regicide (born 1601)
• 5 November - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, socialite (born 1599)
• 24 December - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (born 1631)
• Philip Skippon, soldier (year of birth unknown)

References

See also