Sir William Penn ( 23 April 1621 – 16 September 1670 ) was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670.

In April 1660 Penn was elected MP for Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the Convention Parliament.

* Sir William Penn 1652 – 1660?

The General Baptists encapsulated their Arminian views in numerous confessions, the most influential of which was the Standard Confession of 1660.

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.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

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

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

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 Commonwealth of England was the republic which ruled first England, and then Ireland and Scotland from 1649 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 ).

" He was followed in 1660 by Otto von Guericke, who invented what was probably the first electrostatic generator.

By 1660 the Vistula Lagoon had gone to Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia, but was returned in 1700.

The Commonwealth was briefly revived ( 1659 – 60 ), before the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Charles II in May 1660.

After the Restoration on 14 October 1660 Major-General Thomas Harrison was the first person to be found guilty of the regicide of Charles I.

During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in 1660.

The monarchy was restored in 1660, with King Charles II returning to London.

From 1652 to 1660, Scotland was part of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, under English control but gaining equal trading rights.

* was a 52-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1654 as the Torrington for the Commonwealth of England Navy, renamed Dreadnought at the Restoration in 1660, and lost in 1690.

However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate ( built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641 ), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored.

Pessimism in the south was more intense after the Cossacks ' Uprising ( 1648 – 1654 ) under Chmielnicki and the turbulent times in Poland ( 1648 – 1660 ), which violently ruined the Jewry of South East Poland, but did not much affect that of Lithuania and Estonia.

He held many college offices, becoming successively lecturer in Greek ( 1651 ), mathematics ( 1653 ), and humanity ( 1655 ), praelector ( 1657 ), junior dean ( 1657 ), and college steward ( 1659 and 1660 ); and according to the habit of the time, he was accustomed to preach in his college chapel and also at Great St Mary's, long before he took holy orders on 23 December 1660.

After the introduction of absolute monarchy in 1660 all clerics were civil servants appointed by the king, but theological issues were left to the hierarchy of bishops and other clergy.

Shortly after the Restoration of King Charles II ( 4 December 1660 ), Charles Maitland was created sole Captain-General of The Mint for life, and appointed a Privy Counsellor 15 June 1661.

Following the Restoration Lord Cork was appointed a Privy Councillor ; and Lord Treasurer of Ireland on 16 November 1660.

On 22 February 1660 he was made Custos Rotulorum of the counties of Cork and Waterford, and, on 19 March 1660, was appointed one of the Commissioners for the settlement of Ireland following the King's declaration to that effect of 30 November 1659.

In 1660 he succeeded Herman Fleming as Lord High Treasurer, and was one of the council of regency appointed to govern Sweden during the minority of Charles XI of Sweden.

Hesilrage was at the height of his power as the major figure in a restored republic and was appointed to the Council of State on 2 January 1660.

He was appointed Privy Councilor in 1641, Field Marshal in 1648 and Lord High Constable in 1660.

On the recommendation of General Monck and Cooper's wife's uncle, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, Charles appointed Cooper to his privy council on 27 May 1660. Cooper took advantage of the Declaration of Breda and was formally pardoned for his support of the English Commonwealth on 27 June 1660.

Nicholas Bernard, ( circa 1600-1661 ), pamphleteer, former Dean of Ardagh in Ireland and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, was appointed Rector of the parish in 1660 and buried at St Alkmund's Parish Church.

One of the twelve commissioners from the House of Commons who attended Charles II at Breda ( 7 May 1660 ), after Charles's accession Herbert was appointed warden of the Forest of Dean ( 18 June ); and also on 30 July, in response to appeals from local gentry, lord lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire.

Charles II appointed Northumberland to his Privy Council in late May 1660, and Northumberland was named Lord Lieutenant of Sussex in August and Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland in September.

* Lord of the Bedchamber to Charles II ( appointed in 1660 ), a post he held until his death.

* Arthur Hill ( died April 1663 ) a colonel under Charles I and appointed Constable of Hillsborough Castle in 1660.

In 1660 the English appointed a Frenchman Jeremie Deschamps as Governor who proclaimed the King of France, set up French colours, and defeated several English attempts to reclaim the island.

In 1660 Colonel Sir Henry Bishop was appointed General Postmaster, he had served a Royalist officer during the Civil War and was given the " farming " patent of the Post Office as a reward.

Grimston did not retain the office of Speaker after the dissolution of the Convention Parliament, but he was a member of the commission which tried the regicides, and in November 1660 he was appointed Master of the Rolls.

In early modern Europe, certain royal courts appointed official historians: these included the Rikshistoriograf in Sweden from 1618, the Historiographer Royal in England from 1660, and the Historiographer Royal in Scotland from 1681.

In 1660 he was appointed Governor of Uppland County and in 1664 he served in the Privy Council.

At the Restoration in 1660, Sterne was appointed Bishop of Carlisle, from where he was translated to York in 1664.

After filling several public positions under the Commonwealth and Protectorate he was a member of the council of state appointed in February 1660 and under Charles II, he rose to a high position.

On the Restoration in 1660, Rainbowe was restored to his mastership at Cambridge, and appointed chaplain to the king.

He was appointed chaplain to Charles II, and was rewarded with the first prebendal stall in Carlisle Cathedral ( November 1660 ).