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Year '1662' ('MDCLXII') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1662

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1662

January - June

★ February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege then establish the Kingdom of Tungning. In response, Kangxi Emperor migrated all residents along the southern coast by 50 miles.

★ March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris.

★ May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record.

★ May 16 - Hearth Tax introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.

★ May 30 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England.

July - December

★ October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400,000 (or 2.5 million livres).

Undated

★ Act of Uniformity 1662 is introduced in England.

★ 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.

★ Foundation of the "Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg" in Germany.

Births

★ January 27 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)

★ April 30 - Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1694)

★ May 3 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1737)

★ May 18 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (d. 1719)

★ July 11 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)

★ August 5 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)

★ August 13 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)

★ August 25 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (d. 1724)

★ October 18 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)

★ November 11 - Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (d. 1738)

★ December 13 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)

★ December 18 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)
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Deaths

★ February 13 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (Elizabeth Stuart) (b. 1596)

★ March 20 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)

★ April 14 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)

★ May 23 - John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)

★ June 14 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)

★ August 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)

★ September 3 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)

★ September 22 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)

★ October 21 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)

★ November 20 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)

★ December 30 - Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1628)
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