1660 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1660?
- February 13, 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden’s enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency takes over the ruling of Sweden until 1672.
- February 23, 1660 – Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
- March 16, 1660 – The Long Parliament dissolved.
- April 4, 1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- April 23, 1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
- May 29, 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
- June 1, 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- October 17, 1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
- November 28, 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
- December 8, 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare’s play Othello.
- December 31, 1660 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
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