1662 in England

Events from the year 1662 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Charles II of England

Events

* 17 March - Two old women hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft at the Bury St. Edmunds witch trial.
* 2 May/3 May - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England — as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England.
* 9 May - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record.
* 16 May - Hearth Tax introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.
* 24 August - Act of Uniformity 1662 introduced. [cite book|title=The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|publisher=D. Appleton & co|author=Joel Munsell|year=1858]
* 27 October - Charles II sells Dunkirk to France for £400.000 (or 2.5 million livres).

Undated

* Royal Society receives royal charter.
* John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, published statistical information about the births and deaths in London.
* The second edition of Robert Boyle's "New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects" published in Oxford containing Boyle's Law.

Births

* 27 January - Richard Bentley, classical scholar (died 1742)
* 30 April - Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1694)
* 18 May - George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (died 1719)
* 13 August - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, politician (died 1748)
* 18 October - Matthew Henry, non-conformist minister (died 1714)
* 17 December - Samuel Wesley, poet (died 1735)
* "unknown date" - John Hudson, scholar (died 1719)

Deaths

* 13 February - Elizabeth of Bohemia, princess (born 1596)
* 14 April - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, statesman (born 1582)
* 19 April - Miles Corbet, Puritan politician (born 1595)
* 22 April - John Tradescant the younger, botanist and gardener (born 1608)
* 23 May - John Gauden, bishop and writer (born 1605)
* 14 June - Henry Vane the Younger, Governor of Massachusetts (born 1613)
* 3 September - William Lenthall, politician (born 1591)
* 22 September - John Biddle, theologian (born 1615)
* 21 October - Henry Lawes, composer (born 1595)

References

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