1660

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

* 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.

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

* 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.

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 ."

Deaths

* February 2
** Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
** Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
* 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
** Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
** Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
* December 1 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
* December 22 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1612)