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Year 1661 (MDCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1661

January 6 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. George Monck's regiment defeats them
January 30 - The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.
February 5 - The Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China dies and is succeeded by his son the Kangxi Emperor.
February 14 - George Monck’s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards (which later becomes Coldstream Guards)
March - Following the death of his mentor, Cardinal Mazarin, King Louis XIV of France starts to rule independently.
April 23 - King Charles II of England, Scotland, Ireland crowned in Westminster Abbey. This is his second coronation.

August 6 - Portugal and the Dutch Republic signed the Treaty of The Hague, whereby New Holland was formally ceded to Portugal by the Dutch Republic.

Undated

Dutch rule ends in Taiwan.

The first modern bank notes are issued in Stockholm, Sweden.

Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ends to rule as vizier at Ottoman empire.

Births

January 30 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)

March 25 - Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)

April 16 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)

May 25 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)

June 9 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)

July 20 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d. 1706)

September 2 - Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)

October 11 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)

November 1 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)

November 4 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)

November 6 - King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)

November 15 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America (d. 1743)

November 28 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

December 5 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)

December 18 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)

Deaths

January 19 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)

February 2 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (born 1596)

February 5 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (born 1638)

March 1 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (born 1590)

March 9 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (born 1602)

April 4 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier(born c.1580)

April 7 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (born 1604)

May 27 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish dissenter (beheaded) (born 1607)

August 7 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (born 1608)

August 16 - Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (born 1608)

October 4 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (born 1625)

October 28 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (born 1618)

November 19 - Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (born 1600)

December 29 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (born 1594)

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