Editing 1662 (section)

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Dziaddin Mukarram Shah I of Kedah|Dziaddin Mukarram Shah]] becomes the new Sultan of [[Kedah Sultanate|Kedah]], an independent kingdom on the [[Malay Peninsula]], upon the death of his father, [[Muhyiddin Mansur Shah of Kedah|Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur]].
* [[January 10]] &ndash; At the age of 19, [[Louis I, Prince of Monaco|Louis Grimaldi]] becomes the new [[Prince of Monaco]] upon the death of his grandfather, [[Honoré II, Prince of Monaco|Honoré II]].
* [[January 14]] &ndash; A Portuguese garrison invades Morocco and kidnaps 35 women and girls, then steals 400 head of cattle. The Moroccans counterattack and kill the garrison's commander, 12 knights and 38 other Portuguese soldiers before the surviving Portuguese are given sanctuary inside the [[English Tangier|English fortress at Tangier]]. A brief war ensues between England and Morocco.
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Former Chinese Emperor [[Zhu Youlang|Yongli]], who had surrendered to General [[Wu Sangui]] in December, is put on a boat along with his sons and grandsons at [[Sagaing]] in [[Myanmar|Burma]] (at the time, Burma), leaving under the promise that they will be given safe passage elsewhere in Burma. Instead, the former Emperor is taken back to China and executed on June 1.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[John Kemény (prince)|János Kemény]], [[Prince of Transylvania]] for slightly more than a year, is killed during Transylvania's defeat by the Ottoman Empire in a battle at Nagyszőllős, now the city of [[Vynohradiv]] in Ukraine. An Ottoman appointee, [[Michael I Apafi|Michael Apafi]], replaces Kemény in September and the status of the principality of Transylvania (now part of [[Romania]]) is never regained.
* [[February 1]] &ndash; Chinese general [[Koxinga]] (Zheng Chenggong) captures the [[Dutch East India Company]]'s settlement at [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] (now [[Tainan]]) on the island of [[Taiwan]] after a nine-month [[Siege of Fort Zeelandia|siege]], ending the company's rule on the island, then establishes the [[Kingdom of Tungning]]. In response, the [[Kangxi Emperor]] of the mainland [[Qing dynasty]] [[Great Clearance|relocates all residents]] along the southern coast, by 50 miles.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; A violent storm in the [[Indian Ocean]] strikes a fleet of seven ships of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) as they are traveling back to the [[Dutch Republic]] from [[Jakarta|Batavia]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Three of the freighters— ''Wapen van Holland'', ''Gekroonde Leeuw'' and ''Prins Willem'' — are lost with all hands. The ships ''Vogel Phoenix'', ''Maarsseveen'' and ''Prinses Royal'' make their way back to the Netherlands. The other ship, the freighter ''[[Arnhem (ship)|Arnhem]]'' remains afloat and its roughly 80 survivors are able to evacuate in boats to search for land.<ref name=Grihault>[http://www.dodosite.com/dodo_and_solitaire_research.htm Alan Grihault, "The story of the survivors of a shipwreck who saw Dodos in 1662?", an abridged version of recent research" (2005), Dodosite.com]</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The survivors of the wreck of the Dutch freighter ''[[Arnhem (ship)|Arnhem]]'' strike reefs but are able to make their way to an uninhabited island,<ref name=Grihault/> probably the [[Islets of Mauritius#Île D'Ambre|Ile D'Ambre]]<ref name=Parish>Jolyon C. Parish, ''The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History'' (Indiana University Press, 2013) p. 45</ref> or Ilot Fourneau <ref name=Grihault/> both islands within the territory of [[Mauritius]]. During more than two months while shipwrecked, the survivors kill and eat the local wildlife, including the last surviving [[dodo]]. They are rescued by the English ship ''Truroe'' in May.<ref name=Parish/>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Carrosses à cinq sols]], a short-lived experiment of the first public [[bus]] system (horse-drawn wagons holding eight passengers) begins in Paris as the idea of mathematician [[Blaise Pascal]] and financed by the Duc de Rouanez, with transportation to and from the Royal Square for the cost of five [[French sol#Late Middle Ages|sous]].<ref>"The Marais: 'Paris' in the seventeenth century", by Joan Dejean, in ''The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris'', ed. by Anna-Louise Milne (Cambridge University Press, 2013) p. 30</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 19]] &ndash; Three of the former members of the English Parliament who had signed the death warrant for [[Charles I of England]] in 1649 and then fled into exile in the Netherlands after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 — [[Miles Corbet]], [[John Okey]] and [[John Barkstead]] — are hanged after having been extradited, returned to England, and convicted of [[regicide]]. Their bodies are then [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|drawn and quartered]].
* [[April 22]] &ndash; The [[Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation|Golden Hill Paugussett]] tribe, granted reservations in the British colony of [[Connecticut]] in North America, sell a large amount of tribal land to Captain [[Joseph Hawley (captain)|Joseph Hawley]] including several towns in [[Fairfield County, Connecticut|Fairfield County]]: [[Shelton, Connecticut|Shelton]], [[Trumbull, Connecticut|Trumbull]], [[Derby, Connecticut|Derby]] and [[Monroe, Connecticut|Monroe]].
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Chinese warlord [[Zheng Chenggong]] sends a message to the Spanish government of the Philippines demanding payment of [[tribute]] and threatening to send a fleet of ships to conquer the area. The message reaches the Spanish Governor-General on May 5, and preparations are made to resist the invasion.
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[John Winthrop the Younger]], the son of the first governor of Massachusetts, is honored by being made a fellow of the [[Royal Society]], England's new scientific society. Winthrop uses his election to the Society to gain access to the king, who grants him a new charter, uniting the colonies of [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]] and [[New Haven Colony|New Haven]].  
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Samuel Pepys]] witnesses a [[Punch and Judy]] show in London (the first on record).
* [[May 16]] &ndash; The [[hearth tax]] is introduced in England and Wales. 
* [[May 19]]
**The [[Act of Uniformity 1662]], officially "An Act for the uniformity of common prayer and service in the Church, and administration of the sacraments", is given royal assent after being passed by the English Parliament to regulate the form of public prayers, sacraments, and other rites of the [[Church of England]] to conform with the newest edition of the [[Book of Common Prayer]], the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 prayer book]].<ref>Henry Gee and William John Hardy, editors., ''Documents Illustrative of English Church History'' (Macmillan and Company, 1896) p. 600</ref>
**Royal assent is also given to England's new [[Hearth tax#England|hearth tax law]], with one shilling charged for each stove or fireplace in a building, to be collected on 29 September and on 25 March each year in order to provide the £1,200,000 annual household income for King Charles II. The unpopular tax is abolished in 1689. 
* [[May 21]] &ndash; (May 31 N.S.); Princess [[Catherine of Braganza]], daughter of [[John IV of Portugal|King João IV]] of [[Portugal]], marries [[Charles II of England]].<ref>W. M. Lupton, English History from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times (Longmans, Green and Co., 1866) p. 272</ref>  As part of the [[dowry]], Portugal cedes [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in India, and [[Tangier]] in Morocco, to England.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; Rioting in the Chinese section of [[Manila]] breaks out in the wake of calls to kill non-Christian Chinese residents of the Philippines, and the Spanish Army fires cannons at the rioting crowd. An order follows for non-Christian Chinese Filipinos to leave Manila, and for Christian Filipinos to register with the government. Boats begin transporting the non-Christians back to China
* [[May]] &ndash; The last credible report of a sighting of the [[dodo]] bird, now extinct, is made by Volkert Evertsz, a survivor of the shipwreck of the Dutch ship [[Arnhem (ship)|''Arnhem'']], which struck reefs on February 12.<ref>[https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?139346 "Arnehem (+1662)", "The Wrecksite"]</ref> The survivors had made their way in a small boat to Ile d'Ambre, an island in the Indian Ocean {{convert|200|km}} northeast of [[Mauritius]]. When rescued by the English ship ''Truroe'' in May,<ref name="Parish"/> Evertsz reports that he and his group had survived by eating the local wildlife, including the dodo.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/when-did-dodo-go-extinct-maybe-later-we-thought-8C11361418|title=When did the dodo go extinct? Maybe later than we thought|last=Main|first=Douglas|date=October 9, 2013|work=NBC News|access-date=February 4, 2019}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The "[[Sangley Massacre (1662)|Sangley Massacre]]" is ordered by [[Sabiniano Manrique de Lara]], the Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines]], with the directive for the government to kill all Filipinos of Chinese ancestry — [[Sangley]]s — who disobey orders to assemble at Manila for deportation.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; The [[Matthews baronets]] [[British nobility]] title is created.<ref name="Leigh Rayment's list of baronets">{{cite web |title= Leigh Rayment's list of baronets |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021184256/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm |archive-date=21 October 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The [[Pierce baronets]] British nobility title is created.<ref name="Leigh Rayment's list of baronets"/>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Koxinga]], who had founded the [[Kingdom of Tungning]] on the island of [[Taiwan]] a year earlier, names his successor while on his deathbed. He appoints his son, [[Zheng Jing]], whom he had earlier ordered unsuccessfully to be executed, as the new King.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 15 ]] &ndash; The [[Royal Society]], founded by King [[Charles II of England and Scotland]] receives an official charter in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Royal Society|publisher=Times Publishing Company|year=1960|page=24|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Ignatius Andrew Akijan]] is installed as the new Patriarch of the [[Syriac Catholic Church]] for Christians within the Muslim-ruled [[Ottoman Empire]] after his appointment is confirmed by the [[Sultan Mehmed IV]].
* [[August 24]] &ndash; The [[Act of Uniformity 1662|Act of Uniformity]] goes into effect on St Bartholomew's Day,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|url=https://archive.org/details/everydaybookhis00munsgoog|publisher=D. Appleton & Co|first=Joel|last=Munsel|year=1858}}</ref> making mandatory in the [[Church of England]] the forms of worship prescribed in the new edition of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' the deadline having been set for "every clergyman and every schoolmaster... to express, by August 24, his unfeigned consent to everything contained in the [[Book of Common Prayer]]. This is followed by the resignation of over 2,000 clergy who resign "for conscience sake".<ref>Samuel Rawson Gardiner''A Student's History of England: From the Earliest Times to 1885'', Volume II (Longmans, Green, and Company, 1891) p. 585</ref> Those who refuse to take the required oath of conformity to the [[established church]] are subject to the [[Great Ejection]] from their jobs.
* [[September 9]] &ndash; The Parliament of Scotland passes the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, an amnesty (with numerous specific exceptions) for most political crimes committed by Scottish citizens during the years between January 1, 1637 (prior to the 1639 beginning of the [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] and before the restoration of the monarchy on September 16, 1660.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The first payments under [[Hearth tax#England|England's hearth tax law]], enacted on May 19, become due.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Charles II of England]] [[Sale of Dunkirk|sells Dunkirk]] to France, for £400,000 (2.5 million [[French livre]]s).
* [[November 28]] &ndash; The English [[Royal Society]] holds its first meeting.
* [[December 4]] &ndash; The [[Purefoy baronets]] British nobility title is created.<ref name="Leigh Rayment's list of baronets"/>
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Fouquet]] is banished from France.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Molière]]'s play, ''[[The School for Wives]]'', is given its première in Paris.<ref>{{cite book | last = Peacock | first = N. A. | title = Moliere L'Ecole des femmes | publisher = University of Glasgow French and German Publications | location = Glasgow | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780852612453 | page=1 | language=en}}</ref>
* November - December &ndash; [[Helen Guthrie (accused witch)|Helen Guthrie]] is the last person accused during the [[Forfar witch trials]] to be executed.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Crichton |first1=Emma |last2=Kelly |first2=Lesley-Anne |title=Interactive map reveals the stories of witches - male and female - in Tayside and Fife |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/987108/interactive-map-reveals-the-stories-of-witches-male-and-female-in-tayside-and-fife/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The Courier |date=28 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Claire |last2=Venditozzi |first2=Zoe |title=How to Kill a Witch |date=2025 |publisher=Hatchett |isbn=9781800961883}}</ref>

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* [[Robert Boyle]] publishes ''Nova experimenta physico-mechanica'' in Oxford (2nd edition), setting forth the [[Boyle's law|law bearing his name]].
* [[Joan Blaeu]] publishes ''[[Atlas Maior|Atlas Maior, sive cosmographia Blaviana]]'' in Amsterdam (first complete edition, 11 volumes in Latin).
* [[Milton, Massachusetts]] is incorporated as a town.
* [[John Graunt]], in one of the earliest uses of [[statistics]], publishes statistical information about births and deaths in London.
* The ''[[Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg|Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg]]'' is founded in Germany.