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unusual facts about 1660


Treaty of Breda

Declaration of Breda in 1660 by Charles II of England paving the way for the English Restoration.


1660 destruction of Safed

Adler, Franco and Mendelssohn claim that the destruction of Safed took place in 1660, Mendelssohn writing that the Jews of Safed "had suffered severely" when the city had been destroyed by the Arabs.

Aelbert Cuyp

However, not everyone appreciates his work and River Landscape (1660), despite being widely regarded as amongst his best work, has been described as having "chocolate box blandness".

Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha

Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha (1624-1671) was a Polish nobleman and bishop of Samogitia since 1660 and Wilno since 1667.

Beinta Broberg

She was married three times: in 1695 to vicar Jónas Jónasen (1660–1700) of Viðareiði, 1702 to vicar Niels Gregersen Aagaard (1672–1706) of Miðvágur in Vágar, and 1706 to vicar Peder Ditlevsen Arhboe (1675–1756), of Vágar.

Boyse

Joseph Boyse (1660–1728), English Presbyterian minister in Ireland and controversialist

Brita Persdotter Karth

She is said to have married prince Gustav in Kashin in Russia in 1594 after alreday having delivered four children of his: Lars (or Laurentius) (1586-1660), Eric (1588-?), Carl Gustav (1590-?) and Catherine Sigrid (1592-?).

Brownsover

The church has an interesting collection of English and foreign carved woodwork, including a splendid organ case, made in 1660 for St John's College, Cambridge.

Charles Saint-Yves

Saint-Yves was born in 1667 at Maubert-Fontaine (Ardennes, Northern France), out of a family affiliated to Marie de Guise, who called him and his elder brother (1660–1730) to Paris for becoming her pages.

Charles Somerset

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (1660 – 1698), eldest son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort

Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

# Sophie Hedwig (4 August 1660 in Merseburg – 2 August 1686 in Saalfeld), married on 18 February 1680 to Duke John Ernest of Saxe-Saalfeld

Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern

# Anna Elisabeth (b. Dessau, 5 April 1598 – d. Tecklenburg, 20 April 1660), married on 2 January 1617 to William Henry, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

Counts of Avranches

1644–1660 Luís de Almada, 8th Count of Avranches, 11th Lord of Lagares d' El-Rei, 6th Lord of Pombalinho

Edward Gee of Eccleston

Edward Gee (1613–1660) of Eccleston was an English presbyterian minister, active against the government in the late 1640s.

Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Mary (1609–1660); married 1627 Charles II of Gonzaga (1609–1631), Duke of Rethel en Nevers

Giuseppe Rusnati

He also contributed to the Certosa di Pavia and sent many sculptures for the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, including to Monte Calvario; to the 9th, 10th, and 15th chapels of the Sacri Monti of Domodossola; to the 13th and 19th chapels of the Sacri Monti of Orta; and the statues of SS Domenico and Francisco in the high altar (1660–1662) for the Sacri Monti of Varese .

Henry Cuttance

Henry Cuttance, born in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, was son of Sir Roger Cuttance, Edward Montagu’s flag captain in the Naseby, in 1660.

Henry J. Steere

Steere was a Yankee, whose ancestor John Steere immigrated to the Providence from Great Britain before 1660 and married the daughter of Reverend William Wickenden.

Jerónimo Carrión

:To be distinguished from: Jerónimo de Carrión Spanish composer (1660-1721)

Johann Heinrich Zorn

Zorn who was heavily influenced by the work, far ahead of its time, of the ornithologist Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau (1660-1731) aimed to proclam the divine power to his readers.

Johannes Klencke

Ernst van Klenck, a merchant on Russia, married in 1660 a daughter of Pieter de Carpentier.

Their brother-in-law William Davidson of Curriehill invited Mary Stuart into his house in July 1660 and seems to have been a spy for Charles II.

John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino

He was buried in the vaulted cemetery of the Logan family, adjoining the church of Restalrig, but according to Scot of Scotstarvet, the soldiers of Cromwell disinterred the body in 1660 while searching for leaden coffins, and threw it into the street.

John Meres

Sir John Meres (c.1660-15 February 1736) knight, FRS of Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire was the director of a number of companies in the early 18th century, including the Charitable Corporation, the York Buildings Company, and Company of Mineral and Battery Works.

John Paget

He was a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1605, B.A. 1608, and M.A. 1612, Under the Commonwealth he was incumbent of Blackley, near Manchester, till 1646, rector of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, till 1656, and rector of Stockport till his death in 1660.

Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Jules de Clérambault

Jules de Clérambault (ca. 1660 – August 17, 1714) was a French ecclesiastic and Abbot of Saint-Taurin d’Évreux.

Lilburne

Elizabeth Lilburne (fl. 1641–1660), English political agitator; wife of John Lilburne.

Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Sophia Hedwig of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg upon Elbe, 24 May 1601 – 21 February 1660, Glücksburg); ∞ on 23 May 1624 in Neuhaus Philipp of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (15 March 1584 – 27 September 1663), son of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

Mary, Princess Royal

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631 - 1660), eldest daughter of King Charles I; wife of William II, Prince of Orange (1626 - 1650)

Morris Talpalar

He supported that a change in these values was determinant for the establishment of slavery in Virginia, when the original Puritan rulers that dominated the political scene before 1660 were replaced by the rules of Cavaliers.

Nicolae Milescu

In 1660-1664, he acted as representative of his country with its Ottoman overlord, and then as envoy to Berlin and Stockholm.

Polish Livonia

Inflanty Voivodeship, a district of the Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621) that was retained by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Treaty of Oliva in 1660

Raphael Cotoner

Raphael Cotoner (Rafael Cotoner i d'Olesa; died 20 October 1663) was the 60th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller or, as it is already known by that time, the Order of Malta, serving in that position from 5 June 1660 to his death on 20 October 1663 following the brief reign of Annet de Clermont-Gessant.

Richard Pryse

Sir Richard Pryse, 2nd Baronet (1630–1675), Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660

Robert Moray

Following the restoration of Charles II, Moray was one founders of the Royal Society at its first formal meeting on Wednesday 28 November 1660, at the premises of Gresham College on Bishopsgate, at which Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy, delivered a lecture.

Robert Sibthorpe

His living was sequestrated by the Long Parliament in 1647, but restored in 1660 at the time of the English Restoration.

Roger Allestry

In 1660 Allestry was elected Member of Parliament for Derby and was re-elected without contest in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.

Siege of Lyakhavichy

Siege of Lyakhavichy (Lachowicze) took place from 23 March to 28 June 1660 during the Russo-Polish War (1654–67).

Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet

His uncle Metcalfe Robinson had been created a baronet in 1660, but died without issue in 1689, so that the baronetcy became extinct; on 13 February 1690, William was made a baronet to revive the title.

Swedish Empire

Eventually, under the Treaty of Copenhagen on May 27, 1660, Sweden kept the three formerly Danish Scanian provinces and the formerly Norwegian Bohuslän province, which Denmark-Norway had surrendered by the Treaty of Roskilde two years previously; but Sweden had to relinquish the Norwegian province of Trøndelag and the Danish island of Bornholm, which had been surrendered at Roskilde.

The New Academy

France saw the founding of the Académie française (1635) and the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1663); In England, the formation of the Royal Society (1660), the earliest known Masonic lodges, and the earliest schools for girls were varying expressions of this same trend.

Theoprosopon

The French historian, Laurent d'Arvieux, wrote in 1660 that the Franks named it “Cape Rouge,” a corruption of the Lebanese Arabic word of “ouege,” which means “face.”

Tolhurst

Jeremiah Tolhurst - English Civil War soldier, businessman and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1660

Untung Surapati

Untung Suropati (1660 – December 5, 1706) was an Indonesia war fighter who led a few rebellions against the Dutch East India Company.

Waldburg-Waldburg

Waldburg-Waldburg was a partition of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil and was divided between the other two parts of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil — Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldburg-Zeil — in 1660.

Whore dialogues

The first example was the Ragionamenti by Pietro Aretino, followed by such works as La Retorica delle Puttane (The Whore's Rhetoric) (1642) by Ferrante Pallavicino; L'Ecole des Filles (The School for Girls) (1655), attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange and also known as The School of Venus; The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea (c. 1660) by Nicolas Chorier--known also as A Dialogue between a Married Woman and a Maid in various editions.

William Eyre

William Eyre of Neston (fl. 1642–1660), parliamentarian army officer and politician

William Trye

William Trye (1660-1717), of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, was an English politician.

William Wyndham

Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet (c. 1632–1683), of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Member of Parliament for Somerset, 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679


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