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
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
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
- 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
- December 1 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b.
1592)
- December 22 – André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (b.
1612)