Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  - 1660s -  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1659 1660 1661 - 1662 - 1663 1664 1665

1662 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1662 (MDCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1662

January - June

the Dutch Fort Zealandia

• January 23 - Battle of Nagyszőllős: János Kemény of Transylvania is killed.
• February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the Dutch Fort Zealandia on the island of Taiwan after a 9-month siege, then establishes the Kingdom of Tungning. In response, the Kangxi Emperor of the mainland Qing Dynasty migrates all residents along the southern coast by 50 miles.
• March 18 - A short-lived experiment of the first public buses (holding 8 passengers) begins in Paris.
• May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London (the first on record).
• May 16 - The Hearth Tax is introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.
• May 30 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England; as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England.

July - December

• July 15 - The Royal Society receives an official charter.
• October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £40,000 (or 2.5 million livres).
• November 28 - The Royal Society holds its first meeting.
• December 20 - Nicolas Fouquet is sentenced to banishment.
• December 26 - Molière's play The School for Wives premieres.

Undated

• The Act of Uniformity 1662 in England and Wales makes mandatory the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
• Robert Boyle publishes Nova experimenta physico-mechanica, setting forth the law bearing his name.
• Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
• John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes statistical information about births and deaths in London.
• The Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg[1] is founded in Germany.

Births

• January 9 - John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d. 1711)
• January 12 - Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1742)
• January 27 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
• February 15 - James Renwick, Covenanter martyr (d. 1688)
• 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)
• June 11 - Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1712)
• 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)
• August 28 - Maria Aurora of Königsmarck, royal mistress (d. 1728]])
• October 18 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
• October 19 - William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1728)
• November 11 - Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (d. 1738)
• December 13 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
• December 17 - Samuel Wesley, English poet and father of the Wesley brothers (d. 1735)
• December 18 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)

Deaths

• January 10 - Honoré II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1597)
• February 9 - Judith Quiney, daughter of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
• February 13 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (Elizabeth Stuart) (b. 1596)
• March 17 - Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland (b. 1605)
• March 20 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
• April 14 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
• April 22 - John Tradescant the younger, botanist (b. 1608)
• May 23 - John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
• June 14 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
• July 14 - Camilla Faà, secret wife of the Duke of Mantua (b. c. 1599)
• July 16 - Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena (b. 1634)
• 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 12 - Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch painter (b. 1589)
• November 20 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
• December 20 - Axel Lillie, Swedish politician (b. 1603)
• December 30 - Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1628)