1662

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

Events

March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris
May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England
May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record.
Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400.000
Royal Society receives royal charter
Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, published statistical information about the births and deaths in London.

January 27 - Richard Bentley, English Classical scholar
April 30 - Princess Mary Stuart, later Queen Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland.

February 13 - Elizabeth Stuart, Deposed Queen consort and Princess of Scotland and England.
August 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher dies in Paris.
December 30 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria