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List of events
Events from the year 1660 in England Restoration .
Incumbents
Events
1 January
3 February – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London .[ 3]
February – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London , forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays. His production of Pericles Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle.
21 February – Presbyterian Members of Parliament expelled in 1648 are readmitted.[ 4]
27 February – John Thurloe is reinstated as England's Secretary of State for a short time.
16 March – the Long Parliament disbands.[ 4]
4 April – Declaration of Breda promises amnesty, freedom of conscience, and army back pay, in return for the Restoration of the Crown.[ 3]
22 April – General John Lambert , having escaped from imprisonment in the Tower of London and attempted to rekindle the Civil War in favour of the Commonwealth by issuing a proclamation calling on all supporters of the "Good Old Cause " to rally on the battlefield of Edgehill , is recaptured at Daventry by Colonel Richard Ingoldsby .[ 5]
25 April – the Convention Parliament meets to discuss the Restoration.[ 3] House of Lords reconvenes for the first time since its abolition in 1649 .[ 4]
1 May – the Declaration of Breda is presented to the Parliament of England which acknowledges that the lawful government of the nation is by King, Lords and Commons.[ 4]
8 May – Parliament declares that Charles has been lawful King of England since 1649 and invites him to return.[ 4]
15 May – John Thurloe is arrested for high treason .
19 May – the newly restored Church of England Convocation of the English Clergy canonises King Charles I as King Charles the Martyr and Saint Charles Stuart, the only saint formally canonised within the Anglican Communion .
25 May – Charles II lands at Dover .[ 6]
29 May – Charles II arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration ,[ 3] Oak Apple Day .
25 June – General Post Office established by Charles II.[ 7]
29 June – John Thurloe is released.
2 August – Charles II issues a grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew , and a Duke's Company under the patronage of his brother, the Duke of York , led by Sir William Davenant .
27 August – the books of John Milton are burnt because of his attacks on King Charles II.[ 2]
29 August – Indemnity and Oblivion Act passes into law, granting indemnities to those who had been active in the Interregnum (other than regicides ).
September – William Juxon appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury .[ 8]
3 September – James, Duke of York , the King's brother, and Anne Hyde are privately married in London.
25 September – one of the earliest references to tea in England appears in Samuel Pepys 's diary.[ 2]
13 October – ten regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I are hanged, drawn and quartered .[ 3]
25 October – King Charles proposes that some Presbyterian ministers become bishops to heal rifts in the Church; the plan is later abandoned.[ 3]
11 November – imprisonment of John Bunyan in Bedford Gaol for preaching without a licence.[ 2]
19 November – James, Duke of York , as Lord High Admiral of England , proclaims that use of the newly restored Union Jack is reserved to ships of the Royal Navy and merchant ships should fly the Red Ensign .[ 9]
28 November – at Gresham College , twelve men, including Christopher Wren , Robert Boyle , John Wilkins , and 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 ).[ 2]
8 December – first actress to appear on the professional stage in a non-singing rôle, as Desdemona in Othello Margaret Hughes , Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey .[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
Undated – the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa is chartered with a monopoly over the English slave trade . It is led by Duke of York .
Publications
Deaths
Births
25 April – Henry Hammond , churchman (born 1605)
1 June – Mary Dyer , Quaker (hung) (born c. 1611)
30 June – William Oughtred , mathematician (born 1574)
18 September – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (born 1639)
14 October – Thomas Harrison , soldier (born 1606)
17 October – Adrian Scrope , regicide (born 1601)
5 November – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle , socialite (born 1599)
24 December – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (born 1631)
Philip Skippon , soldier (year of birth unknown)
References
^ "January 1" . Chambers' Book of Days . Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-09 .^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 ^ a b c d e f Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 187–188. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ a b c d e "The Convention Parliament" . British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate . 2007-06-16. Retrieved 2012-10-24 .^ Greaves, Richard L. (1986). Deliver Us From Evil: the radical underground in Britain, 1660-1663 ISBN 0-19-503985-8 ^ "Friday 25 May 1660" . The Diary of Samuel Pepys . Retrieved 2011-08-24 .^ Allan, Marshall (2003). Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660–1685 ISBN 0-521-43180-8 . Retrieved 24 August 2011 . ^ Quintrell, Brian (2004). "Juxon, William (bap. 1582, d. 1663)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/15179 . Retrieved 2011-08-24 . (subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ Groom, Nick (2007). The Union Jack: the story of the British Flag (Paperback ed.). London: Atlantic Books. pp. 150–1. ISBN 978-1-84354-337-4 ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1 ^ Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 . Cambridge University Press. p. 24. ^ Gilder, Rosamond (1931). Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 166.
