1660: Map

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 – Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins his advance towards London in support of the English Restoration.
January 1 – Samuel Pepys begins his diary.
February 2 – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London .
February 13 – Charles XI becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Charles X Gustavus.
February 27 – John Thurloe is reinstated as England's secretary of State, having been deprived of his offices late in the previous year.
March 16 – The Long Parliament disbands.
May 8 – The Parliament of England declares Prince Charles Stuart King Charles II of England.
May 15 – John Thurloe is arrested for high treason for his support of Oliver Cromwell's regime.
May 23 – King Charles II of England arrives in Britain.
May 25 – Charles II of England is crowned.
May 27 – The Treaty of Copenhagen is signed, marking the conclusion of the Second Northern War.
May 29 – King Charles II of England arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration.
June 29 – John Thurloe is released from custody.

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.

Theaters reopen in England – Margaret Hughes debuts as the first female actor as Desdemona in Othello.
Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.
Sweden recovers its southern provinces from Denmark .
The expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique is carried out by French occupying forces.
Hopkins School is founded.
Absolutism is established in Denmark .
A permanent standing army is established in Prussia.