Zie: Wikipedia.
Gebeurtenissen:
De Denen en de Zweden sluiten vrede.
Karel II Stuart keert vanuit de Republiek naar Engeland terug. Hem wordt -vooral
door Amsterdam- een groot geschenk meegegeven in de hoop op betere
verhoudingen, mogelijk zelfs een afschaffing van de Acte van Navigatie.
De Witt komt steeds meer onder druk de opvolging van Willem III weer
mogelijk te maken, o.a. ook van de kant van diens oom Karel II.
Oprichting van de Royal Society op 28 November.

Geboren:

Overleden:
Cristijntgen van der Willigen.
Karel X Gustaaf van Zweden.


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1660

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Events:
February 23 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden.
March 16 - The Long Parliament disbands.
May 8 - The Parliament of England declares Prince Charles Stuart King Charles II
of England.
May 23 - King Charles II of England reaches the shores of his Kingdom. On May 29
he arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English
Restoration.
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).
Blaise Pascal's The Provincial Letters, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld,
was ordered shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.

Births:
January - Pierre Helyot, French historian.
February 19 - Friedrich Hoffmann, physician and chemist (+ 1742).
April 16 - Hans Sloane, British physician.
May 2 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (+ 1725).
May 28 - George I, King of Great Britain (+ 1727).
September - Daniel Defoe, British writer (Robinson Crusoë).
December 4 - André Campra, French composer.
Andreas Schlueter, Polish sculptor and architect.

Deaths:
February 23 - Charles X of Sweden.
August 6 - Diego Velásquez - Spanish painter.
October 14 - Thomas Harrison, British soldier.
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1660