Historical Events in 1660

Samuel Pepys' Diary

Jan 1 1st entry in English civil servant Samuel Pepys' diary

Jan 1 Academia de Bellas Artes is founded in Seville with painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo its first president
Jan 1 General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
Jan 1 Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies York
Feb 3 General George Monck's army reaches London
Feb 23 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
Mar 16 English Long Parliament disbands

Declaration of Breda

Apr 4 English King Charles II issues the Declaration of Breda, promising a general pardon for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum and religious toleration for all those who accepted him as King

Apr 23 Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland
Apr 25 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II
May 2 Battle of Long Sault begins between 17 French colonist militia, their Huron and Algonquin allies and a large Iroquois army (credited with saving settlement of Ville-Marie) [1]
May 3 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
May 7 Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
May 8 English Parliament proclaims Charles II, King of England and invites him to return
May 23 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
May 24 English king Charles II visits Netherlands
May 25 King Charles II of England lands at Dover harbour
May 27 Denmark & Sweden sign The Treaty Of Copenhagen, ends Second Northern War
May 29 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end
Jun 1 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Jul 24 Great Fire of 1660 in Constantinople; two thirds of the city is destroyed including 280,000 wooden houses, with a death toll of around 40,000
Oct 13 Absolute monarchy instituted by decree in Denmark by King Frederik III
Oct 15 Asser Levy granted butcher's license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam