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| 1660 |
| | | On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary | |
|  | First page of Pepys's diary
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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| 1660 |
| | | Monck, reaching London, dissolves the Long Parliament and convenes a new one | |
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| 1660 |
| | | Monck persuades Charles II to sign, at Breda in Holland, a declaration of policies to heal the wounds of the Civil War | |
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| 1660 |
| | | The new Convention Parliament in Westminster invites Charles II to return as king | |
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| 1660 |
| | | Charles II lands at Dover and is given a warm welcome in London four days later | |
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| c. 1660 |
| | | The berlin, developed in Berlin, becomes the most successful carriage of the seventeenth century | |
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| 1660 |
| | | Louis XIV grants New France the status of a royal province and greatly increases the flow of colonists to north America | |
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| 1660 |
| | | Sweden wins the province of Skåne from Denmark, thus acquiring an unbroken stretch of Baltic coastline from Göteborg to Riga | |
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| 1660 |
| | | The Act of Indemnity, pardoning all offences since 1637 except those of the regicides, is given the royal assent | |
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| 1661 |
| | | John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol | |
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