1661
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This article is about the year 1661.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1630s 1640s 1650s – 1660s – 1670s 1680s 1690s |
| Years: | 1658 1659 1660 – 1661 – 1662 1663 1664 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1661 MDCLXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2414 |
| Armenian calendar | 1110 ԹՎ ՌՃԺ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6411 |
| Bengali calendar | 1068 |
| Berber calendar | 2611 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Cha. 2 – 13 Cha. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2205 |
| Burmese calendar | 1023 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7169–7170 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4357 or 4297 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4358 or 4298 |
| Coptic calendar | 1377–1378 |
| Discordian calendar | 2827 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1653–1654 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5421–5422 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1717–1718 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1583–1584 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4762–4763 |
| Holocene calendar | 11661 |
| Igbo calendar | 661–662 |
| Iranian calendar | 1039–1040 |
| Islamic calendar | 1071–1072 |
| Japanese calendar | Manji 4 (万治4年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3994 |
| Minguo calendar | 251 before ROC 民前251年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2203–2204 |
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1661. |
Year 1661 (MDCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. George Monck's regiment defeats them.
- January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.
- February 5 – The Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty of China dies and is succeeded by his son the Kangxi Emperor.
- February 14 – George Monck’s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards (which later becomes Coldstream Guards)
- March – Following the death of his mentor, Cardinal Mazarin, King Louis XIV of France starts to rule independently.
- April 23 – King Charles II of England, Scotland, Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey, for the second time.
July–December[edit]
- July 1 – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) – Treaty of Cardis: Russia surrenders to Sweden all captured territories.
- August 6 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of The Hague, whereby New Holland is formally ceded to Portugal by the Dutch Republic.
Date unknown[edit]
- The first modern bank notes are issued in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ends his rule as vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
- The Great Clearance was spread to Guangdong.
Births[edit]
- January 15 – James Barry, Irish politician (d. 1725)
- January 21 – Peter Le Neve, English herald and antiquary (d. 1729)
- January 22 – Joseph Fleuriau d'Armenonville, French politician (d. 1728)
- January 25 – Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general (d. 1728)
- January 25 – Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, Monegasque prince (d. 1731)
- January 30 – Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
- February 12 – Daniel d'Auger de Subercase (d. 1732)
- February 20 – William Digby, 5th Baron Digby, English politician and Baron (d. 1752)
- February 24 – Alexandre-François Desportes, French painter (d. 1743)
- February 25 – Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex, English Countess (d. 1721)
- February 28 – Tripo Kokolja (d. 1713)
- March 19 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1727)
- March 25 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
- April 11 – Antoine Coypel, French painter (d. 1722)
- April 13 – Jacques L'enfant (d. 1728)
- April 14 – Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (d. 1733)
- April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)
- April 21 – Georg Joseph Kamel, Jesuit missionary and botanist (d. 1706)
- April 23 – Issachar Berend Lehmann, German-Jewish banker, Court Jew in Hanover (d. 1730)
- April 30 – Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (d. 1685)
- May 3 – Antonio Vallisneri, Italian scientist (d. 1730)
- May 7 – Sophie Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt, only Duchess by marriage of Saxe-Eisenberg (d. 1712)
- May 7 – George Clarke, Politician and architect (d. 1736)
- May 25 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
- June 1 – Louis Bartholomew Załuski, Polish Cardinal, Auxiliary Bishop of Przemysl (d. 1721)
- June 1 – Gaspard Rigaud, French painter (d. 1705)
- June 6 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
- June 9 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
- June 24 – Hachisuka Tsunanori, Daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain (d. 1730)
- July 7 – Henri, Duke of Elbeuf, member of the House of Lorraine (d. 1748)
- July 11 – Charles, Prince of Commercy, French field marshal (d. 1702)
- July 15 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Military hero of New France (d. 1706)
- July 20 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d. 1706)
- July 29 – Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, German prince (d. 1708)
- July 31 – Ignaz Agricola, German historian (d. 1729)
- August 8 – Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, German aristocrat and general (d. 1747)
- August 11 – William Churchill, British politician (d. 1737)
- August 15 – Sukjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (d. 1720)
- August 22 – Joseph Sheffield, Colonial Rhode Island Attorney General (d. 1706)
- August 31 – Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, English diplomat (d. 1701)
- August 31 – Philippe Emanuel, Prince of Hornes (d. 1718)
- September 2 – Georg Böhm, German composer and organist (d. 1733)
- September 2 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (d. 1738)
- September 7 – Gunno Dahlstierna (d. 1709)
- September 23 – Christiana Oxenstierna, Swedish noble (d. 1701)
- September 28 – Mehr-un-Nissa, daughter of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and his concubine Aurangabadi Mahal (d. 1706)
- October 1 – Matthew Dudley, M.P. (d. 1721)
- October 4 – Jean-Paul Le Gardeur (d. 1738)
- October 6 – William Dunbar, Scottish bishop (d. 1746)
- October 11 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat and cardinal (d. 1742)
- October 22 – Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, fourth of six children of Henry Cavendish (d. 1717)
- October 27 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (d. 1728)
- November 1 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
- November 1 – Louis, Grand Dauphin, eldest son and heir of Louis XIV of France (d. 1711)
- November 4 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
- November 6 – King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
- November 13 – Erdmuthe Dorothea of Saxe-Zeitz, Consort of Duke Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg (d. 1720)
- November 15 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America (d. 1743)
- November 15 – Henri, Count of Brionne, French noble (d. 1713)
- November 18 – Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel, daughter of William VI (d. 1683)
- November 28 – Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German noblewomen (d. 1705)
- November 28 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
- December 3 – Nathaniel Gould, English politician (d. 1728)
- December 5 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
- December 8 – Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth, Scottish Earl (d. 1701)
- December 18 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
Deaths[edit]
- January 19 – Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
- February 2 – Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
- February 5 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1638)
- March 1 – Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
- March 9 – Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
- April 4 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier(b. c. 1580)
- April 7 – William Brereton, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
- May 27 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish dissenter (beheaded) (b. 1607)
- August 7 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
- August 16 – Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
- October 4 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (b. 1625)
- October 28 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1618)
- November 19 – Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
- December 29 – Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)