1661 Calendar
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1661 Historical Event(s)
January 6, 1661
– English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
January 19, 1661
– Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
January 30, 1661
– Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
April 23, 1661
– King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
June 23, 1661
– Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
July 16, 1661
– The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
August 6, 1661
– The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
September 5, 1661
– Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
Who Were Born On 1661?
March 25, 1661
– Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
April 16, 1661
– Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
May 25, 1661
– Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
September 2, 1661
– Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
November 4, 1661
– Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
November 6, 1661
– King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
November 15, 1661
– Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
November 28, 1661
– Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
December 5, 1661
– Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
December 18, 1661
– Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)