* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

* October 18 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Anne of England ( b. 1660 )

Sarah Churchill ( née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references ), Duchess of Marlborough ( 5 June 1660 ( old style ) – 18 October 1744 ) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.

On the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, he returned to England with the King and became even closer to the royal family through the marriage of his daughter, Anne, to the king's brother James, Duke of York, the heir-presumptive ( who, after the death of his first wife, would succeed to the throne as James II of England & VII of Scotland ).

Originally the Anglican daughter of a lawyer, Anne became James ' first wife in 1660 after she fell pregnant by him, whereas James is said to have promised to marry her in 1659.

** Anne Killigrew, poet ( born 1660 )

He married Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, on 29 April 1656, and in 1660 he legally changed his surname to " Hamilton ", and was created Duke of Hamilton for life, as was then not uncommon practice in Scotland when a peeress in her own right married someone of lesser degree.

He was created Duke of Hamilton in 1660 on the petition of his wife, Anne Hamilton, suo jure Duchess of Hamilton ( daughter of the 1st Duke ), receiving also several of the other Hamilton peerages, but for his life only and on the assumption of the surname Hamilton for himself and his descendants.

The eldest son of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk ( who was created Duke of Hamilton for his lifetime and changed his surname to Hamilton in 1660 ) and his wife Anne, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton in her own right, Hamilton was born at Hamilton Palace, in Lanarkshire.

On the death of Scarron in 1660, Anne of Austria continued his pension to his widow, even increasing it to 2000 livres a year, thus enabling her to remain in literary society.

After Louis XIV's marriage to Maria Theresa of Austria on 9 June 1660, Queen Anne turned her attention to the marriage of Philippe.

He was the only son of Sir Philip Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire ( died 20 March 1688 ), by his first wife, whom he married in 1660, Anne, daughter of Sir William Waller, was born in December 1661 at Stanton Harcourt, and was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire and at Pembroke College, Oxford.

On 25 February 1660 Barbara, gave birth to a daughter named Lady Anne Palmer, whom Palmer believed was his own daughter and the diary of Samuel Pepys on 23 August 1662 said: " But that which pleased me best was that my Lady Castlemayne stood over against us upon a piece of White-hall-where I glutted myself with looking on her.

* Anne de Lorraine ( 1639 † 1720 ), married her cousin François Marie de Lorraine ( 1624 † 1694 ), Prince of Lillebonne in 1660, had issue ;

One of these, built alongside the Quai de L ' Infante around 1640, is called the " Maison Joanoenea ," and it is here that the Queen Mother, Anne of Austria, stayed before the marriage of Louis XIV to Maria Theresa, the Infanta of Spain on 8 May 1660.

* William Morice ( 1660 – 1688 ), who married Anne Lower, but died without issue before his father

Wynn married Anne Darcy, daughter and coheiress of Sir Francis Darcy in 1618, There were no children and the baronetcy and estates fell to his brother Owen Wynn ( 1592 – 1660 ).

Grace Sherwood ( 1660 – late 1740 ) is a local legend in the old Princess Anne County and Pungo, Virginia.

* 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint ( d. 1660 )

The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.

The term Commonwealth is, however, loosely used to describe the system of government during the whole of 1649 to 1660, when England was de facto, and arguably de jure, a republic ( or, to monarchists, under the English Interregnum ).

In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.

* 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1591 )

" A picture of Ninon, under the name of Damo, was sketched in Mlle de Scudéry's Clélie ( 1654 – 1660 ).

It is estimated that of all the gold entering Spain from the New World between 1531 and 1660, 60 % had arrived at its destiny via the ' Treasure Fleet and Fairs ' system from Nombre de Dios / Portobelo.

** Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist ( d. 1660 )

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* March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1660 )

* April 24 – Vincent de Paul, French Priest ( d. 1660 )

* April 24 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint ( d. 1660 )

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This calculation he proposed to the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ( Санкт Петербург ) in the booklet V. razprava ( The fifth discussion ), where he had found with his calculating method an error on the 113th place from the estimation of Thomas Fantet de Lagny ( 1660 – 1734 ) from 1719 of 127 places.

* Pieter de Ring, ca 1615 – 1660, painter

In 1660, his Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert ordered Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban to build a new arsenal and to fortify the town.

The Dutch, in this coordinated by Cornelis and Andries de Graeff, tried to placate the king with prodigious gifts, such as the Dutch Gift of 1660.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (; baptised June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660 ) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV.

Operatic treatments include Caccini's Il rapimento di Cefalo ( c. 1600 ), André Grétry's Céphale et Procris ( 1773 ), and Ernst Krenek's Cefalo e Procri ( 1934 ), as well as works by Hidalgo ( 1660 ), Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre ( 1694 ), Krieger and others.

) de Raedt, 1st Baronet, of the Hague ( 1660 ), dormant-surname may have changed to " Rhett "

From 1617 to 1619 Marie de ' Medici, wife of King Henri IV, exiled from the court, lived at the château, which was soon afterwards given by King Louis XIII to his brother Gaston, Duke of Orléans, who lived there till his death in 1660.

The last, to Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick ( d. 1439 ), was in 1422 ; Aumale, anglicized as Albemarle, was not revived in the peerage until 1660.

From 1660 to 1792 Urk and Emmeloord belonged to the municipality of Amsterdam, and ruled from 1660 to 1672 / 1678 by Andries de Graeff.