In 1604, the Baron le Despencer case was the first peerage abeyance ever settled ; the second was at the Restoration in 1660.

The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses.

Perhaps as reward for this, he became Chief Baron of the Exchequer on 7 November 1660, replacing Sir Orlando Bridgeman.

In 1660 the English Council of State ordered the castle governor to disband the garrison and hand over the castle to Francis Greville, 3rd Baron Brooke.

In 1660, Hyde was raised to the peerage as Baron Hyde, of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire, and the next year was created Viscount Cornbury and Earl of Clarendon.

His son, the third Earl, supported the Restoration in 1660 and was thanked for his efforts the same year when he was created Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwell, in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of England.

He was created a baronet, of Raunston in the County of Buckingham, in the Baronetage of England in 1660 and in 1673 he was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Finch, of Daventry in the County of Northampton.

Hyde had already been created Baron Hyde, of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire, in 1660, and was made Viscount Cornbury, in the County of Oxford, at the same time he was given the earldom.

The Marquess holds the following subsidiary titles: Lord Gordon of Strathaven and Glenlivet and Earl of Aboyne ( 1660 ; Peerage of Scotland ), and Baron Meldrum, of Morven in the County of Aberdeen ( 1815 ; Peerage of the United Kingdom )

The third creation came in 1660 when Sir Charles Howard was made Baron Dacre of Gillesland, in the County of Cumberland, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, in the County of Cumberland, and Earl of Carlisle.

: also Earl of Torrington, Baron Monck, Baron Beauchamp and Baron Teyes ( England, 1660 )

The Earl of Dundee holds the subsidiary titles: Viscount of Dudhope ( created 1641 ), Lord Scrymgeour ( created 1641 ), Lord Inverkeithing ( created 1660 ) and Baron Glassary ( created 1954 ).

His grandson Henry Mildmay, de jure sixteenth Baron, successfully claimed the title in 1660.

* Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, 17th Baron Willoughby de Eresby ( 1660 – 1723 )

It was created in 1660 for the soldier, statesman and dramatist Roger Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle, third but eldest surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.

The abeyance was terminated in 1660 in favour of his nephew, the seventh Baron.

* Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 7th Baron Windsor ( 1627 – 1687 ) ( abeyance terminated 1660 ; created Earl of Plymouth in 1682 )

* Thomas Windsor Hickman, 7th Baron Windsor ( 1627 – 1687 ), abeyance terminated 1660, created Earl of Plymouth in 1682

Calvert's son, Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, fought against the new charter and, in 1660, gained official recognition of the old Charter of Avalon but never attempted to retake the colony.

Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh ( 1 August 1630 – 17 October 1673 ) was an English statesman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1672 when he was created Baron Clifford.

It was created in 1660, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Loughneugh.

His most significant appointment was to the College of Arms as Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary in June 1660.

In March 1660, Palmer was elected Member of Parliament for Windsor in the Convention Parliament.

Upon the Restoration, the title of Baron Windsor, which had last been held by his maternal uncle Thomas, was called out of abeyance in his favour, on 16 June 1660.

* Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 7th Baron Windsor 18 July 1660 – 17 July 1662

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

English conservatism, which was called Toryism, emerged during the Restoration ( 1660 – 1688 ).

Having called for elections for a new Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament was effectively dissolved on 16 March 1660.

And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.

* Having called for elections for a Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March 1660

The original city map of New Amsterdam called Castello Plan from 1660 ( the bottom left corner is approximately south, while the top right corner is approximately north )

The Directory of Public Worship was made official in 1645, and the larger framework now called the Westminster Standards was adopted for the Church of England ( reversed in 1660 ).

At the time of the English Restoration ( 1660 ), the Savoy Conference was called to determine a new religious settlement for England and Wales.

Especially after the English Restoration of 1660, separating Puritans were called Dissenters.

Oliver Cromwell set up a republic called the Commonwealth of England ( 1649 – 1660 ) and ruled as a near dictator after the overthrow of King Charles I. James Harrington was then a leading philosopher of republicanism.

The original city map called the Castello Plan from 1660, showing the wall on the right side

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

Influenced by the events of the Fronde, Louis XIV rebuilt the area around the Bastille, erecting a new archway at the Porte Saint-Antoine in 1660, and then ten years later pulling down the city walls and their supporting fortifications to replace them with an avenue of trees, later called Louis XIV's boulevard, which passed around the Bastille.

In 1660 when a replacement crown called St Edward's Crown was cast for the coronation of Charles II the gold from the aforementioned King Alfred's Crown ( the original crown of Edward the Confessor ) was used, so presumably even after the various jewels had been melted down strenuous efforts were made to recover their components.

Governor Kieft's War of 1643 to 1645, the Esopus War of 1655 to 1660, and the Peach War of 1655 to 1657 would have prevented colonization of New Netherland, which today is called Hunterdon County.

As a result, in 1660, Peter Stuyvesant ordered the building of a fortified village called Bergen.

It was called the Long Parliament ( 1640 – 1660 ), because it was not officially dissolved by its own vote until 1660.

In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Picture of the Good Old Cause Drawn to the Life reprinted a petition he had made in February calling for Members of Parliament to deny rule by Charles II or any other single person.

As a whole his rule, according to the politics of the nobility and his succession, might be called the start of the long period of balance between royal power and nobility which lasted until 1660.

In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theater of the Second Northern War only ( 1655 – 1660 ); In Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge (, ), and the term deluge ( or potop in Polish ) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz, in his 1886 book The Deluge.

The second of these essays ( De la nature de l ' air ) contains the statement of the law that the volume of a gas varies inversely as the pressure, which, though very generally called by the name of Mariotte, had been discovered in 1660 by Robert Boyle.

But a political pamphlet called: “ The Royal Game of Ombre ”, published in London in 1660, supports the inference that the game was known in England before the Restoration.

Sedley is also occasionally associated with a notorious gang of unbridled revellers who called themselves Ballers and who were active between 1660 and 1670.