1660

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  – 1660s –  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1657 1658 1659 – 1660 – 1661 1662 1663

1660 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1660 MDCLX
Ab urbe condita	2413
Armenian calendar	1109 ԹՎ ՌՃԹ
Assyrian calendar	6410
Balinese saka calendar	1581–1582
Bengali calendar	1067
Berber calendar	2610
English Regnal year	11 Cha. 2 – 12 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2204
Burmese calendar	1022
Byzantine calendar	7168–7169
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4356 or 4296     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4357 or 4297
Coptic calendar	1376–1377
Discordian calendar	2826
Ethiopian calendar	1652–1653
Hebrew calendar	5420–5421
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1716–1717
- Shaka Samvat	1581–1582
- Kali Yuga	4760–4761
Holocene calendar	11660
Igbo calendar	660–661
Iranian calendar	1038–1039
Islamic calendar	1070–1071
Japanese calendar	Manji 3 (万治３年)
Javanese calendar	1582–1583
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3993
Minguo calendar	252 before ROC 民前252年
Nanakshahi calendar	192
Thai solar calendar	2202–2203
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1786 or 1405 or 633     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1787 or 1406 or 634

1660 (MDCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1660th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 660th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1660, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces.
• Hopkins School is founded. (exact date uncertain)
• 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 secretary of State for a short time
• March 16 – The Long Parliament disbands
• May 8 – The Parliament of England declares Prince Charles Stuart King Charles II of England
• May 15 – John Thurloe arrested for high treason after English Restoration
• May 23 – King Charles II of England reaches the shores of his Kingdom. On May 29 he arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration
• May 25 – Charles II of England crowned
• June 29 – John Thurloe released
• 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).
• Theaters opened again in England – Margaret Hughes debuts as the first female actor as Desdemona in Othello
• Blaise Pascal's The Provincial Letters, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, was ordered shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.
• Sweden recovers its southern provinces from Denmark.

Births

• April 16 - Hans Sloane, Irish physician
• May 2 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer
• May 28 - George I of Great Britain, King of Great Britain and ruler of Hanover in North Germany.
• November 12 - Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro.
• November 28 - Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, mother of Philip V of Spain

Deaths

• June 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
• July 8 - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester
• November 4 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange