1662

Categories: 1662

Years:
1659 1660 1661 - 1662 - 1663 1664 1665

Decades:
1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1662 by topic:
Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris
May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England
May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record.
October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400.000 (or 2.5 million livres)

Royal Society receives royal charter
Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, published statistical information about the births and deaths in London.
Foundation of the "Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg" in Germany

Births

January 27 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
April 30 - Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1694)
May 3 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1737)
May 18 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (d. 1719)
July 11 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
August 5 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
August 13 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
August 25 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (d. 1724)
October 18 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
December 13 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
December 18 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)

Deaths

February 13 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596)
March 20 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
April 14 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
May 23 - John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
June 14 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
August 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
September 3 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
September 22 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
October 21 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
November 20 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
December 30 - Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1628)af:1662

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