John Hanson was of English ancestry ; his grandfather, also named John, came to Charles County, Maryland, as an indentured servant around 1661.

* John Nash ( MP ) ( 1590 – 1661 ), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648

A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.

John Dutton ’ s successors as governor, Robert Stringer ( 1661 – 1670 ) and Richard Coney ( 1671 – 1672 ), repeatedly warned the Company of unrest amongst the inhabitants, Coney complaining the inhabitants were drunks and ne ’ er-do-wells.

Cornetts and trombones also formed an independent ensemble of five to eight parts for ceremonial music: in France they were used thus up to Mersenne ’ s time ; in England for such music as John Adson ’ s Courtly Masquing Ayres ( 1621 ), and Matthew Locke ’ s music for ‘ His Majesty ’ s Sagbutts and Cornetts ’ ( 1661 ); in Germany for Turmmusik by J. C. Pezel ( e. g. Fünff-stimmigte blasende Music, 1685 ) and by Gottfried Reiche ; and in Italy in most important cities until the mid-18th century, including Bologna, where the Concerto Palatino was active until 1779 and Rome, where the Concerto Capitolino survived until 1789.

* Sir John Frederick van Freisendorf, 1st Baronet, of Hirdech ( 1661 )-also created Friherre in the Swedish nobility, status unknown

The Dowager Queen sold the manor in 1661 to George Digby, Earl of Bristol who employed John Evelyn to improve and update the landscape in accordance with the latest fashions including grottos and fountains.

The town line with Stratford was set in May 1661 by John Banks, an early Fairfield settler, Richard Olmstead, and Lt. Joseph Judson, who were appointed as a committee by the Colony of Connecticut.

* John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville, who family seat was in Staveley was elected a Member of Parliament 1628 – 9 and 1661 – 9.

Among his works are Ladensium Aὐτοκατάκρισις, an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by John Corbet in the form of an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters with Jesuitry ; Anabaptism, the true Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc., a sermon which he criticises the rise of the early Baptist churches in England such as those lead by Thomas Lambe ; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland ; The Life of William ( Laud ) now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Examined ( London, 1643 ); A Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, the Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals ( London, 1661 ).

* 1661 – 1662: Sir John Temple for nine months in the absence of Audley Mervyn

He had been a sympathetic reader of John Humfrey's 1661 justification of his acceptance of re-ordination by William Piers, having already once been ordained in the Presbyterian style by a classis.

* Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque ( 1627, 1644, 1676 ; translated by John Evelyn, 1661 ), full of sound and liberal views on librarianship and considered as a founding stone of library science ;

In the American colonies, John Eliot of Massachusetts translated the Bible into the Massachusett language, also called Wampanoag, or Natick ( 1661 – 1663 ; he published the first Bible printed in North America ).

On 30 January 1661, following the Restoration of the English monarchy of 1660, Charles II had Ireton's corpse exhumed and mutilated in a posthumous execution, along with those of Cromwell and John Bradshaw in retribution for signing his father's death warrant.

* 1661 John Hawkshaw

In 1661 the celebrated Fiat Lux, a work by the Franciscan monk John Vincent Cane, was published ; in it, the oneness and beauty of Roman Catholicism are contrasted with the confusion and multiplicity of Protestant sects.

The narrator, John Ridd, says he was born on 29 November 1661 ; in Chapter 24, he mentions Queen Anne as the current monarch, so the time of narration is 1702 – 1714 making him 40 – 52 years old.

* 1661 – 1671: Sir John Ayton

* 1661, John Leeke and Geo.

* John FitzGerald, 18th Earl of Kildare ( 1661 – 1707 ), only son of the 17th Earl, died without surviving issue

The latter was translated into Latin in 1661 by John Leyburn.

Elder John settled in Westerly in 1661 and the early history of Westerly contains many references to him and his sons.

Cowley's pamphlet on The Advancement of Experimental Philosophy, 1661, immediately preceded the foundation of the Royal Society ; to which Cowley, in March 1667, at the suggestion of John Evelyn, addressed an ode.

John Evelyn described " the New Spring Garden at Lambeth " as a " very pretty contrived plantation " in 1661.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language as a verb in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringill's Jamaca Viewed: " Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat.

The earliest recorded event in Taylor county probably occurred in 1661, when Wisconsin was part of New France.

A report from 1661 describes a race in which twelve browster-wives ran from the Burn ( recorded as the Thicket Burn ) to the top of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh.

The eruptions of Mount Asama mark the span of Japan's recorded history, including: 2009, 2008, 2004, 2003, 1995, 1990, 1983, 1982, 1973, 1965, 1961, 1958 – 59, 1953 – 55, 1952, 1952, 1950 – 51, 1949, 1947, 1946, 1944 – 45, 1938 – 42, 1935 – 37, 1934, 1934, 1933, 1931 – 32, 1930, 1929, 1929, 1927 – 28, 1924, 1922, 1920 – 21, 1919, 1918 ?, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914, 1909 – 14, 1908, 1908, 1907, 1907, 1906, 1905 ?, 1904, 1903, 1902, 1902, 1900 – 01, 1899, 1899, 1894, 1889, 1879, 1878 ?, 1875, 1869, 1815, 1803, 1803, 1783, 1779 ?, 1777, 1776, 1769, 1762, 1755, 1754, 1733, 1732, 1731, 1729, 1729, 1728, 1723, 1723, 1722, 1721, 1720, 1719, 1718, 1717, 1711, 1710, 1708 – 09, 1706, 1704, 1703, 1669, 1661, 1661, 1660, 1659, 1658, 1657, 1656, 1655, 1653, 1652, 1651, 1650 ?, 1649, 1648, 1648, 1647, 1645, 1644, 1609, 1605, 1604, 1600, 1598, 1597, 1596, 1596, 1595 ?, 1591, 1590, 1532, 1528, 1527, 1518, 1427 ?, 1281, 1108, 887, 685.

It is believed that a windmill has stood at this location as far back as 1661, when it was first recorded in an inventory of the then miller, John Bignell.

On August 4, 1661, Durant purchased, in the second oldest recorded deed of the area, land from Cisketando, King of the Yeopim Indian tribe.

The date and the place of his birth are uncertain, with sources often giving dates of anywhere between 1659 to 1661.

* 1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.

It was under Spanish control from 1661, Austrian between 1713 and 1785 and French between 1795 and 1813.

Feodor ( Theodore ) III Alexeyevich of Russia ( in Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич ) ( 9 June 1661 – 7 May 1682 ) was the Tsar of all Russia between 1676 and 1682.

Sir Arthur Haselrig, 2nd Baronet ( 1601 – 7 January 1661 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1659.

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon ( 28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723 ), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is perhaps best known for the claims of his cross-dressing while in office.

After the Coonan Cross Oath, between 1661 and 1662, out of the 116 churches, the Catholics claimed eighty-four churches, and Archdeacon Mar Thoma I with thirty-two churches.

Dublin Corporation (), known by generations of Dubliners simply as The Corpo, is the former name given to the city government and its administrative organisation in Dublin between 1661 and 1 January 2002.

Chemistry as an earnest and respectable science is often said to date from 1661, when Robert Boyle of Oxford published The Sceptical Chymist — the first work to distinguish between chemists and alchemists — but it was a slow and often erratic transition.

During the flashbacks, the book refocuses on Daniel's life between 1661 and 1673.

She became heiress presumptive once more during the brief period 1-6 November 1661, between the death of Prince Philip and the birth of Prince Charles, who would later inherit the throne of Spain as Charles II.

Vasile Lupu ( Vasile Coci ) (; 1595 – 1661 ) was a Moldavian Voivode ( Prince ) between 1634 and 1653.

His father, Isaac Depew, was a merchant and farmer ; pioneer in river transportation between Peekskill and New York ; son of Abraham Depew, who served in the Revolutionary Army, and Catherine ( Crankheit ) Depew, great-grandson of Captain James Cronkite of the Continental Army ; descendant of Frangois DuPuy, a French Huguenot, who came to America about 1661, settled first in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1685 bought land from the Indians at the present site of Peekskill.

The existing star shaped fortress complex was upgraded during the period of peace between 1661 – 1675.

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle ( 1629 – 24 February 1685 ) was an English military leader and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1653 and 1660 and was created Earl of Carlisle in 1661.

Those who defied the Puritans by persistently returning to their jurisdictions risked capital punishment, a penalty imposed on the Boston martyrs, four Quakers, between 1659 and 1661.

During the rule of Sigmund Frederick the Younger of Trautmannsdorff, Oberthal House was converted and expanded between 1656 and 1661 into one of the most splendid in the area around the state capital.

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet ( 13 September 1604 – 7 April 1661 ) was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1659.

After treaties with the local tribes, members of the Connecticut Colony began to settle the area between the Saugatuck and the Norwalk rivers to the west between 1639 and 1661.

The construction of the fort was first considered during a build-up of the French armed forces undertaken by Louis XIV between 1661 and 1667.