1660 - Events.
Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces.
January 1 - colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. Samuel Pepys began his diary.
February 2 – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London
February 23 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden.
February 27 – John Thurloe reinstated as England's ...
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1660s - Events and Trends.
Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary in 1660 and ends it, due to failing eyesight in 1669.
The Great Plague 1665 in England. It is considered an outbreak of bubonic plague.
The Great Fire of London 1666. Most of the City of London is destroyed. However, many of the rats considered responsible for the Great Plague are burned and the epidem ...
After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 a second Navigation Act was passed, with the rules expanded to cover exports as well as imports. The Act also imposed severe restrictions on the colonial trade. All foreign shipping was banned from this trade and the colonies themselves were forbidden from directly exporting certain goods, including tobacco, sugar and cotton, to non-English consumers. The Colonists were only allowed to trade with England and were only allowed to sell English goods ...
The term Convention Parliament has been applied to three different English Parliaments, of 1399, 1660 and 1689.
The definition of the term convention parliament is generally taken to be:
A parliament which does not derive its authority or legitimacy from an existing or previously enacted parliamentary action or process.
Convention Parliament - Convention Parliament of 1399.
The first example of a convention parliament (a parliament which is not often referred to as a 'convention ...
British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The largest part of this literature is written in the English language, but there are also separate literatures in the Welsh language, Scottish Gaelic, Scots and other languages. Northern Ireland is the only part of Ireland still part of the United Kingdom and it possesses literature in English, Ulster Scots and Irish. Irish writers have also played an important part in the development of English-language literature.
Britis ...
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1670s - Events and Trends.
Newton and Leibniz independently discover calculus.
1670s - World Leaders.
King Frederick III of Denmark (1648 - 1670).
King Christian V of Denmark (1670 - 1699).
King Charles II of England and Scotland (1660 - 1685).
King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715).
Leopold I, Holy ...
Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectively de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. His father Charles I had been executed in 1649, following the English Civil War; the monarchy was then abolished and the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland became a republic under Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector (see Commonwealth of England and The Protectorate). In 1660, shortly after C ...
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1650s - Significant Events and Trends.
1650s - World Leaders.
King Frederick III of Denmark (1648 - 1670).
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1653 - 1658).
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1658 - 1659).
King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715).
Ferdinand II ...
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1680s - Events and Trends.
The Treaty of Ratisbon between France and England in 1684 ended the Age of Buccaneers.
Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, where he introduces Newton's laws of motion and his theory of gravity.
1680s - World Leaders.
King Christian V of Denmark (1670 - 1699).< ...
Akita (秋田; Japanese for "autumn ricefield") is a Japanese name.
Akita may refer to:
In places:
Akita Prefecture (秋田県), a northern Japanese prefecture on the island of Honshu
Akita, Akita (秋田市), the capital of Akita Prefecture
In people:
Masami Akita (秋田昌美; born 1956), musician, also known as Merzbow
Akita Sanesue (秋田実季; 1576–1660), daimyo (feudal ruler)
Akita To ...
Deluge is another word for flood.
For floods in general see Flood
For Noah's Flood, described in the Book of Genesis, see Noah and Noah's Ark.
For mythic floods involving Gilgamesh, Noah or others, see Deluge (mythology).
For prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired the mythic floods above, see Deluge (prehistoric).
For the Swedish occupation of Poland (1655-1660), see The Deluge.
For a historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, see Potop (novel).
"Father" Bernard Smith (c 1630 - 1708) was a German-born master organ maker in England in the late 17th century.
Smith served his apprenticeship in Germany before emigrating to England in 1660. He built an organ for the Chapel Royal and, in 1681, became the king's organ maker. Along with his hated rival Renatus Harris he was one of the two most prominent organ builders of the late 17th century.
The rivalry between Smith and Harris led to the famous Battle of the Organs in 1684, when both were bidding for the contr ...
The second example is the Convention Parliament also known as the English Convention which was elected in April 1660. It was elected after the Rump of the Long Parliament had finally voted for its own dissolution. It was predominantly Royalist in its constitution. It assembled for the first time on the April 25, 1660.
The Convention, after the Declaration of Breda had been received on the 8th of May, declared that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the death of Charles I in January 1649. The Convention Par ...
Anton (or Antonius) Maria Schyrleus (also Schyrl, Schyrle) of Rheita (1597-1660) (in Czech, Antonín Maria Sírek z Reity) was a Czech astronomer and optician. He developed several inverting and erecting eyepieces, and was the maker of Kepler’s telescope. "Things appear more alive with the binocular telescope," he wrote, "doubly as exact so to speak, as well as large and b ...
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1630s - Events and Trends.
Thirty Years' War in full swing in Europe
September 8, 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas.
1630s - World Leaders.
King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (1588 - 1648).
King Ch ...
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1650s BC - Events and trends.
c. 1655 BC - Tan-Uli, the ruler of the Elamite Empire, died.
Egypt: Start of Seventeenth Dynasty.
1650s BC - Significant people.
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1640s - Events and Trends.
The personal union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal ends due to a revolution in the latter (1640). Philip IV of Spain is succeeded in the throne of Portugal by King John IV, previously Duke of Braganza
Growing conflict between King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Long Parliament results in the outbreak of the English civil wa ...
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Egypt: Start of Fifteenth Dynasty.
1670s BC - Significant people.
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Egypt: Start of Sixteenth Dynasty
Egypt: Development of leavened bread (date approximate).
1680s BC - Significant people.
Hammurabi, died 1686 BC short chronology.
Death of Heremon, Irish legend (1684 BC)
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