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Year 1660 (MDCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1660
January - June
July - December
- September 25 - Samuel Pepys has his first cup of tea, an event recorded in his diary.
- October 17 - Ten Regicides - men who signed the death warrant of Charles I - are drawn and quartered, a process which includes their being disemboweled and their bowels burned before their eyes.
- 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).
- December - Andres Malong, a native chieftain of Pangasinan, Philippines, leads a revolt against the Spanish regime.
Undated
Births
- January - Pierre Helyot, French historian (died 1716)
- February 19 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (died 1742)
- March 15 - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (died 1740.)
- April 16 - Hans Sloane, British physician (died 1753)
- May 2 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (died 1725)
- May 20 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (died 1714)
- May 28 - King George I of Great Britain (died 1727)
- May 29 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Queen Anne of England (died 1744)
- July 24 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (died 1718)
- September - Daniel Defoe, English writer (died 1731)
- October 20 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (died 1723)
- October 21 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (died 1734)
- November 15 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (died 1746)
- November 20 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (died 1741)
- December 4 - André Campra, French composer (died 1744)
- See also Category:1660 births.
Deaths
- February 2
- February 13 - King Charles X of Sweden (born 1622)
- March - Philip Skippon, English soldier
- April 25 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (born 1605)
- April 30 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (born 1576)
- May 29 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (born 1615)
- June 1 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (hanged) (born c. 1611)
- June 30 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (born 1575)
- August 6 - Diego Velásquez, Spanish painter (born 1599)
- September 12 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (born 1577)
- September 27 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (born 1580)
- October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (born 1578)
- October 6 - Paul Scarron, French writer (born 1610)
- October 14 - Thomas Harrison, British soldier (born 1606)
- October 17 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (born 1601)
- November 5
- December 1 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (born 1592)
- December 22 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (born 1612)af:1660
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