* 1662 – Mary II of England ( d. 1694 )

* 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ( d. 1662 )

* 1662 – John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician, and academic ( d. 1724 )

* 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

* 1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman ( b. 1582 )

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

A new revision — probably by Bishop George Griffith ( 1601 – 1666 ), of St Asaph-based on the revised English book of 1662, was published in 1664.

* 1595 – Henry Lawes, English composer ( d. 1662 )

* 1595 – Henry Lawes, English musician and composer ( d. 1662 )

* 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

* 1662 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria ( b. 1628 )

* 1607 – János Kemény, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania ( d. 1662 )

* 1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist ( d. 1729 )

Max Emanuel ( 1662 – 1726 ) by Joseph Vivien.

* Francesco II d ' Este, Duke of Modena ( 1662 – 1694 )

* 1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.

Further imprisonments came at London in 1654, Launceston in 1656, Lancaster in 1660, Leicester in 1662, Lancaster again and Scarborough in 1664 – 66 and Worcester in 1673 – 75.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

* 1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer ( d. 1662 )

In 1662 the estate passed to Charles Farquharson of Inverey, brother of John Farquharson, the " Black Colonel ".

Charles II of England was concerned by the unregulated copying of books and passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662 by Act of Parliament, which established a register of licensed books and required a copy to be deposited with the Stationers ' Company, essentially continuing the licensing of material that had long been in effect.

* 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40, 000 pounds.

New Haven was absorbed by Connecticut Colony with the issuance of the Connecticut Charter in 1662, partly as royal punishment by King Charles II for harboring the regicide judges who sentenced King Charles I to death.

* May 17 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol ( d. 1662 )

* December 2 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

Catherine journeyed from Portugal to Portsmouth on 13 – 14 May 1662, but was not visited by Charles there until 20 May.

In an unpopular move, also in 1662, Charles sold Dunkirk to his first cousin King Louis XIV of France for about £ 375, 000.

# Charles Fitzroy ( 1662 – 1730 ), created Duke of Southampton ( 1675 ), became 2nd Duke of Cleveland ( 1709 )

The central avenue containing not a walk or a drive, but the great canal, known as the Long Water, excavated during the reign of Charles II, in 1662.

* 1662 J. H. Charles

It came under French rule when Charles II of England sold it to France for £ 320, 000 on 17 October 1662.

Throughout this time the chapel attached to the hospital remained in use and in 1662 it hosted the wedding of King Charles II and Princess Catherine of Braganza.

This place, called " Wyoming ," fell within the bounds of the charter issued in 1662 by Charles II to the Connecticut Colony.

On the restoration of Charles II of England, his Viceroy in Dublin, the Duke of Ormonde, established a Royal Hunting Park on the land in 1662.

In 1662 Charles II of England signed a Royal Charter which created the " Royal Society of London ", then " Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge ".

In 1679, the 18-year-old Charles II married Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ), eldest daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ( the only sibling of Louis XIV ) and his first wife Princess Henrietta of England.

After 1662 he found a home at Farnham Castle with George Morley, bishop of Winchester, to whom he dedicated his Life of George Herbert and also that of Richard Hooker, and from time to time he visited Charles Cotton in his fishing house on the Dove.

Dunkirk fell, and was handed over to the English Protectorate, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until Charles II sold it to the king of France in 1662.

Charles conceived the idea that hydrogen would be a suitable lifting agent for balloons having studied the work of Robert Boyle's Boyle's Law which was published 100 years earlier in 1662, and of his contemporaries Henry Cavendish, Joseph Black and Tiberius Cavallo.

* the Act of Uniformity 1662, 14 Charles II c. 4 ( 1662 ), which required the use of all the rites and ceremonies in the Book of Common Prayer in church services ;