Events

• February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
• 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.
• May 16 - Hearth Tax introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.
• October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400.000 (or 2.5 million livres).

• Act of Uniformity 1662 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)
• December 13 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
• December 18 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)

See also Category:1662 births.

Deaths

• February 13 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (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)

See also Category:1662 deaths.

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