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.

The three bishops chosen for Asia left France ( 1660 – 62 ) to go to their respective missions, and crossed Persia and India on foot, since Portugal would have refused to take non-Padroado missionaries by ship, and the Dutch and the English refused to take Catholic missionaries.

After the Restoration of 1660, episcopacy was reintroduced into the Church of Scotland, returning church governance to the situation that existed prior to the expulsion of the bishops by the Glasgow General Assembly in 1638 and overthrowing the Presbyterian form of organisation favoured by the Covenanters.

* 1660-1666-William Fuller, who became Bishop of Limerick 1663 and later of Bishop of Lincoln, and who composed an anthem for the Restoration in Ireland, celebrated on 27 January 1660 with the consecration at the cathedral of twelve bishops

Winchester Palace by Wenceslas Hollar, 1660.

It later swapped to Manydown once more, before being sold in 1649 and returned to Winchester in 1660.

* 1660 – 1662: Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester

Historiographer therefore meant " historian ", and it is in this sense that certain official historians were given the title " Historiographer Royal ", in Sweden ( from 1618 ), England ( from 1660 ), and Scotland ( from 1681 ).

Economic conditions were favourable in the peaceful Restoration period from 1660 to 1688, as land owners promoted better tillage and cattle-raising, and Glasgow became an increasingly important commercial centre, opening up trade with the American colonies.

On 9 January 1660, Monk arrived in London and his plans were communicated.

Dissenters were Protestants who refused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two Dissenting chapels.

The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th century, and from 1630 to 1660 in the 17th century, including, but not also limited to, English Calvinists.

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

When tea-drinking was first introduced to England circa 1660, tea was rare and expensive, as a consequence of which teacups and teaspoons were smaller than today.

Around 1660, gut or silk core strings overspun with copper wire first became available ; these were then used for the lowest-pitched bass strings on viols, and on many other string instruments as well.

But many were confessedly political, e. g. The Rota, or Coffee Club ( 1659 ), a debating society for the spread of republican ideas, broken up at the Restoration in 1660, the Calves Head Club ( c. 1693 ) and the Green Ribbon Club ( 1675 ).

They were married in 1660 and had a son, Louis, in 1661.

After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if Charles had succeeded his father as king in 1649.

Wilkins ' " philosophical meetings " in his study were clearly important, though few records survive except for the experiments Boyle conducted in 1658 and published in 1660.

In 1660, the elementary schools run by Port-Royal-des-Champs were closed by bull, and in 1661, the monastery at Port-Royal-des-Champs was forbidden to accept new novices, which guaranteed the monastery would eventually die out.

In 1660, founder John Davenport's wishes were fulfilled, and Hopkins School was founded in New Haven with money from the estate of Edward Hopkins.

The 1648, 1660, and 1682 editions were no longer subtitled ‘ tragicomedy ’, but ‘ tragedy ’.

The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

In October 1660, at Charing Cross or Tyburn, London, ten were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered: Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scroope, John Carew, Thomas Scot, and Gregory Clement, who had signed the king's death warrant ; the preacher Hugh Peters ; Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtell, who commanded the guards at the king's trial and execution ; and John Cooke, the solicitor who directed the prosecution.

There were however strong disagreements between the baby's widowed mother in law Amalia van Solms, and widow daughter in law Mary, Princess Royal, ( 4 November 1631 – 24 December 1660, aged 29 ) on even the name for christening the Dutch-English Royal newborn.

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.

* 1660 in poetry, a year when several panegyrics were published by English poets in honour of Charles II of England coming to power.

Twenty-three black slaves were known to have been brought to Charles City County before 1660.

From 1614 to 1660, Urk and Emmeloord were ruled by Jonkheer van der Werve.

Flintlock muskets were the mainstay of European armies between 1660 and 1840.

Some Quakers, including in 1660 George Fox, were held at Lancaster Castle for being politically dangerous.

By the time that Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, the major palace-fortresses in England that had survived slighting were typically in a poor state.

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

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.

In 1660 Charles II was restored to the throne and Hawkesworth was promptly evicted from Kenilworth.

* 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

This was followed by a ten-year period of bourgeois republican government, the " Commonwealth ", before monarchy was restored in the shape of Charles ' son, Charles II in 1660.

This was the first island they came to, and he named it Restoration Island because the food they found ( oysters and native fruits ) greatly restored their spirits and because that date was the anniversary of the restoration of King Charles II ( in 1660 ).

The monarchy was restored in 1660, and Charles II visited Lancaster on 12 August and released all the prisoners held in the castle.

The reference is to Charles II's famous escape from Cromwell's Roundheads, and Charles was restored to the throne in 1660.

When in May 1660 Charles II restored the Stuarts to the throne, the people of England once again practised the public singing of Christmas carols as part of the revival of Christmas customs, sanctioned by the king's own celebrations.

There is also an historical connection with the Restoration of King Charles II because in 1660, Lord Fairfax and two hundred Yorkshire gentlemen gathered at the barn before marching into York for the proclamation of the restored King.

After 1660 when King Charles II of England ( 1630-1685 ) was restored and then again after 1685 when King James II of England came to power there was an on-going battle between king and the English Parliament.

In 1660, the Restoration of Charles II forced Fendall into exile and restored Baltimore's proprietorship.

When Charles II returned to the throne in 1660 and restored the Bulkeley family as castle constables, Beaumaris appears to have been being stripped of its valuable lead and remaining resources, including the roofs.

Galway's urban elite enjoyed a measure of their power restored during the reign of the King Charles II ( 1660 – 1685 ) and his successor James II.

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.

The monarchy was restored in 1660.

Pride ’ s Purge was reversed on 21 February 1660 when all the surviving barred members were restored to the Long Parliament which, as law required, voted for its own dissolution.

It was followed by the Convention Parliament ( 1660 ) which proclaimed Charles II king and restored the monarchy.

When Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, thirteen of these executioners were put to death and twenty-five sentenced to life imprisonment, while others escaped.

Following the attack on Copenhagen and the city's successful defence, and the reconquest by Norwegian forces of Trondheim, the Treaty of Copenhagen in 1660 restored that province to Norway.

Perukes or periwigs for men were introduced into the English-speaking world with other French styles when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, following a lengthy exile in France.

The Treaty of Copenhagen restored Bornholm to Denmark and Trøndelag to Norway in 1660, while the other provinces transferred in Roskilde remained with Sweden.