1661 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1661?
- January 6, 1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
- January 19, 1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- January 30, 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
- April 23, 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- June 23, 1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
- July 16, 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
- August 6, 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
- September 5, 1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
Who Were Born In The Year 1661?
- January 30, 1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
- March 25, 1661 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
- April 16, 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
- May 25, 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
- June 9, 1661 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
- September 2, 1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
- October 11, 1661 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
- November 1, 1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
- November 4, 1661 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
- November 6, 1661 – King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
- November 15, 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
- November 28, 1661 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
- December 5, 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
- December 18, 1661 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
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