Today in History for Year 1660

Months in Year 1660: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 1st - 1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
Jan 1st - General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
Jan 1st - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York
Feb 3rd - General Moncks army reaches London
Feb 23rd - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
Mar 16th - English Long Parliament disbands
Apr 4th - English king Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
Apr 23rd - Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
Apr 25th - English Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
May 3rd - Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
May 7th - Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
May 8th - English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
May 23rd - King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
May 24th - English king Charles II visits Netherlands
May 25th - English King Charles II lands in Dover
May 27th - Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
May 29th - Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
Jun 1st - Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Jun 6th - Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
Oct 13th - Denmark king Frederik III makes coup
Oct 15th - Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
Oct 17th - Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.
Nov 15th - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
Nov 28th - London Royal Society forms
Dec 15th - Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
Dec 31st - James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 24 of 24

Feb 13th - Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer
Feb 15th - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans
Feb 19th - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
Mar 28th - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer
Mar 28th - Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain
Apr 6th - Johann Kuhnau, composer
Apr 16th - Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum)
Apr 19th - Sebastian Duron, composer
Apr 24th - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
Apr 29th - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
May 2nd - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
May 20th - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
May 28th - George I, King of England (1714-27)
Jun 3rd - Johannes Schenck, composer
Jun 5th - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
Jul 24th - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
Aug 21st - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
Oct 20th - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
Oct 21st - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
Nov 15th - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
Nov 20th - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
Dec 4th - Andre Campra, composer
Dec 12th - Peter Rabus, poet/translator (Liberated Britanje)
Dec 26th - Peter Schenck, German/Neth engraver/publisher, baptised

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

Feb 2nd - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at 45
Feb 2nd - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51
Feb 13th - Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
Feb 15th - Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72
Feb 18th - Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried
Apr 25th - Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
Apr 30th - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84
May 29th - Gyorgy Rákóczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle
May 29th - Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44
May 29th - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
Jun 1st - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
Jun 30th - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
Aug 6th - Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61
Aug 12th - Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33
Sep 8th - Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
Sep 12th - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82
Sep 27th - St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies
Oct 7th - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
Oct 14th - Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72
Oct 14th - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
Oct 17th - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
Nov 5th - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
Nov 5th - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
Dec 1st - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
Dec 3rd - Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
Dec 22nd - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
Dec 24th - Mary, 1st British Princess Royal and the Princess of Orange (b. 1631)