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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; The [[siege of Fort Zeelandia]], the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) headquarters on the Chinese island of [[Taiwan]] (near modern [[Taoyuan, Taiwan|Taoyuan City]]) is started by Koxinga and his invading force from China.<ref>{{citation |last=Andrade |first=Tonio |title=How Taiwan Became Chinese : Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century |date=2008 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780231128551 |url=http://www.gutenberg-e.org/andrade/ |chapter=Chapter 11: The Fall of Dutch Taiwan|chapter-url=http://www.gutenberg-e.org/andrade/andrade11.html}}</ref>
* [[April 23]] (May 3 N.S.) &ndash; King [[Charles II of England]], [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]], and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] is crowned in [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Price | first = Curtis | title = Purcell studies | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780521441742 | page=245 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; The "[[Cavalier Parliament]]", the longest serving Parliament in British history, is opened following the first parliamentary elections since the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.  The first session of the House of Commons and the House of Lords lasts until June 30 and then reopens on November 20.  The Cavalier Parliament continues meeting, without new elections, until being dissolved on January 24, [[1679]].
* [[May 11]] &ndash; The Indian city and territory of [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] is ceded by Portugal to England in accordance with the [[dowry]] of King Joao IV of Portugal for the marriage of his daughter Catherine to King Charles II of England.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; Leaders of the [[Taiwanese indigenous peoples|indigenous Taiwanese]] villages in the plains and mountains of the Dutch-ruled island begin surrendering to the Chinese forces led by [[Koxinga]] and agreeing to hunt down and execute Dutch people on the island.<ref>Hsin-hui Chiu, ''The Colonial 'civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662'' (BRILL, 2008) p. 222</ref>
* [[May 27]] &ndash; The [[Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll|Marquess of Argyll]], one of the first of the Scottish-born people sentenced to death as a [[regicide]] for his role in the conviction and execution of King Charles I of England and Scotland in 1649, is beheaded at the Tolbooth Prison in [[Edinburgh]] using the "[[Maiden (guillotine)|Scottish Maiden]]," almost immediately after his conviction of collaboration with the government of [[Oliver Cromwell]].  His head is then placed on a spike outside the prison.
* [[June 1]] &ndash; At Edinburgh, the public execution of Presbyterian minister [[James Guthrie (minister)|James Guthrie]], followed by Captain [[William Govan]], takes place at the [[Mercat Cross, Edinburgh|Mercat Cross]] at Parliament Square, days after both have been convicted of treason for their roles in the execution of King Charles I.  The heads are severed from the corpses and displayed on spikes in the square.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Pye Min]], younger brother of King [[Pindale Min]] of [[Toungoo dynasty|Burma]], leads a bloody coup d'etat and ascends the throne.  Pindale Min and his family (including his primary wife, a son and a grandson) are drowned in the [[Chindwin River]].<ref>[[Damrong Rajanubhab]], ''Our Wars With the Burmese:  Thai-Burmese Conflict 1539–1767'' (1914, reprinted White Lotus Co. Ltd., 2001)</ref>  Pye Min reigns until 1672.
* [[June 14]] &ndash; General [[Koxinga|Zheng Chenggong]] of China takes control of most of the island of [[Taiwan]] from the Dutch East India Company and proclaims the [[Kingdom of Tungning]], with himself as the ruler.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; The "[[Marriage Treaty]]" is signed between representatives of King [[Charles II of England]] and King [[John IV of Portugal|João IV of Portugal]], providing a military alliance between the two kingdoms and a marriage between Charles of the [[House of Stuart]] and João's daughter Catherine of the [[House of Braganza]] on May 21, 1662.  The treaty also sets the transfer of Portuguese territory in India (at [[Mumbai|Bombay]]) and in North Africa ([[English Tangier|Tangier]]) to England as well as military aid from England to Portugal.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; The innovative [[Lisle's Tennis Court|Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre]] opens in London with the first system for interchangeable scenery on a stage in the British Isles, and a production of [[William Davenant]]'s opera ''[[The Siege of Rhodes]]''.