1662

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1659
  • 1660
  • 1661
  • 1662
  • 1663
  • 1664
  • 1665
February 1: The Dutch East India Company surrenders control of Taiwan and Fort Zeelandia to invaders from Mainland China.
1662 in various
Minguo calendar
250 before ROC
民前250年
Nanakshahi calendar194
Thai solar calendar2204–2205
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1788 or 1407 or 635
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
1789 or 1408 or 636
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita is published by Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit.

1662 (MDCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1662nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 662nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1662, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

  • January 4Dziaddin Mukarram Shah becomes the new Sultan of Kedah, an independent kingdom on the Malay Peninsula, upon the death of his father, Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur.
  • Prince of Monaco upon the death of his grandfather, Honoré II
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  • January 14 – A Portuguese garrison invades Morocco and kidnaps 35 women and girls, then steals 400 head of cattle. The Moroccans counterattack and kill the garrison's commander, 12 knights and 38 other Portuguese soldiers before the surviving Portuguese are given sanctuary inside the English fortress at Tangier. A brief war ensues between England and Morocco.
  • January 22 – Former Chinese Emperor Yongli, who had surrendered to General Wu Sangui in December, is put on a boat along with his sons and grandsons at Sagaing in Burma (at the time, Burma), leaving under the promise that they will be given safe passage elsewhere in Burma. Instead, the former Emperor is taken back to China and executed on June 1.
  • January 23János Kemény, Prince of Transylvania for slightly more than a year, is killed during Transylvania's defeat by the Ottoman Empire in a battle at Nagyszőllős, now the city of Vynohradiv in Ukraine. An Ottoman appointee, Michael Apafi, replaces Kemény in September and the status of the principality of Transylvania (now part of Romania) is never regained.
  • February 1 – Chinese general Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) captures the Dutch East India Company's settlement at Fort Zeelandia (now Tainan) on the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege, ending the company's rule on the island, then establishes the Kingdom of Tungning. In response, the Kangxi Emperor of the mainland Qing dynasty relocates all residents along the southern coast, by 50 miles.
  • February 11 – A violent storm in the Indian Ocean strikes a fleet of seven ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as they are traveling back to the Dutch Republic from Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Three of the freighters— Wapen van Holland, Gekroonde Leeuw and Prins Willem — are lost with all hands. The ships Vogel Phoenix, Maarsseveen and Prinses Royal make their way back to the Netherlands. The other ship, the freighter Arnhem remains afloat and its roughly 80 survivors are able to evacuate in boats to search for land.[1]
  • February 20 – The survivors of the wreck of the Dutch freighter Arnhem strike reefs but are able to make their way to an uninhabited island,[1] probably the Ile D'Ambre[2] or Ilot Fourneau [1] both islands within the territory of Mauritius. During more than two months while shipwrecked, the survivors kill and eat the local wildlife, including the last surviving dodo. They are rescued by the English ship Truroe in May.[2]
  • March 18 – A short-lived experiment of the first public bus system (horse-drawn wagons holding eight passengers) begins in Paris as the idea of mathematician Blaise Pascal and financed by the Duc de Rouanez, with transportation to and from the Royal Square for the cost of five sous.[3]

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

Mary II of England
Willem van Mieris

Deaths

Henry Vane the Younger
Blaise Pascal
Adriaen van de Venne

References

  1. ^ a b c Alan Grihault, "The story of the survivors of a shipwreck who saw Dodos in 1662?", an abridged version of recent research" (2005), Dodosite.com
  2. ^ a b c Jolyon C. Parish, The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History (Indiana University Press, 2013) p. 45
  3. ^ "The Marais: 'Paris' in the seventeenth century", by Joan Dejean, in The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris, ed. by Anna-Louise Milne (Cambridge University Press, 2013) p. 30
  4. ^ Henry Gee and William John Hardy, editors., Documents Illustrative of English Church History (Macmillan and Company, 1896) p. 600
  5. ^ W. M. Lupton, English History from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times (Longmans, Green and Co., 1866) p. 272
  6. ^ "Arnehem (+1662)", "The Wrecksite"
  7. ^ Main, Douglas (October 9, 2013). "When did the dodo go extinct? Maybe later than we thought". NBC News. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Leigh Rayment's list of baronets". Archived from the original on October 21, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ The Royal Society. Times Publishing Company. 1960. p. 24.
  10. ^ Munsel, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & Co.
  11. ^ Samuel Rawson GardinerA Student's History of England: From the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume II (Longmans, Green, and Company, 1891) p. 585
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  13. ^ "Mary II | Biography & Accomplishments". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  14. ^ "June 7th 1662. Birth of Celia Fiennes". History Today LXII/6, June 2012, p. 9.
  15. ^ "Elizabeth Stuart | Facts, Family, & Queen of Bohemia | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  16. ^ Anders Hald (1990). A History of Probability and Statistics and Its Applications before 1750. Wiley. p. 44.
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