1662 - Definition and Overview

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 incorperated as a town.
• John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, published statistical information about the births and deaths in London.

Births

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

Deaths

• 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