1660 (MDCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1660th year...
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Events from the year 1660 in art. November – The Dutch Gift: a collection including 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and a dozen classical sculptures...
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Dutch Gift (category 1660 in art)
The Dutch Gift of 1660 was a collection of 24 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings, four by Dutch Masters, and twelve classical sculptures. The gift was...
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The year 1660 in science and technology involved some significant events. November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher...
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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660. January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date...
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Stuart Restoration (redirect from Restoration of 1660)
reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England, established in January 1649...
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The Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 is a biographical dictionary of sculptors active in Britain in the period between the Restoration of Charles...
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different techniques in chemistry. English physician John French publishes The Art of Distillation, the first detailed handbook in English on distillation...
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Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Altman) (redirect from Self Portrait 1660)
Altman Collection, it has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1913. The Altman portrait is dated 1660, when Rembrandt was fifty-four...
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characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art "By the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late, provost...
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The year 1660 in music involved some significant events. Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at Helsingør in Denmark. Pelham Humphrey and John Blow become...
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on May 29 of this year Sir Robert Howard, Poems John Phillips, Montelion, 1660; or, The Proheticall Almanack, published under the pen name "Montelion, knight...
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The year 1651 in music involved some significant events. none listed Giovanni Battista Granata – Nuova scielta di capricci armonici..., a collection of...
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Ramdas, Cholas, Nayakas and Indian Classical Art-Bharatanatyam). Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-948230-95-7."In 1660, Siddi Johar's huge and daunting army attacked...
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1740 (redirect from Events in 1740)
March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (b. 1660) April 28 – Bajirao I, Great Maratha warrior and Prime Minister of Marartha...
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Govert Flinck (category 1660 deaths)
Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 – 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Born at Kleve, capital of the Duchy...
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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1899 (category 1890s in the United Kingdom)
year 1899. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...
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year 1846. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...
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Charles II of England (category Expatriates in the Dutch Republic)
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of...
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British Interregnum (redirect from Interregnum (1649-1660))
interregnum in the British Isles began with the execution of Charles I in January 1649 (and from September 1651 in Scotland) and ended in May 1660 when his...
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1968 (redirect from 1968 in politics)
Reception. Scarecrow Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-8108-1660-2. "FIRST SPACEMAN IS KILLED— Gagarin Dies in Crash of Test Plane", Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1968...
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St Mary's Guildhall (category Buildings and structures in Coventry)
Marshall, William Calder. "Godiva". Art UK. Retrieved 24 August 2020. Shackleton, John. "George I (1660–1727)". Art UK. Retrieved 24 August 2020. Kneller...
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Woman with a Water Jug (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660–1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on canvas, 45.7cm × 40...
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1739 (redirect from Events in 1739)
remained in localized use until 1923. January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South...
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1943 (redirect from Deaths in 1943)
Lithuanian-German Schlager singer Gloria Gaynor, American disco singer September 9 – Art LaFleur, American actor (d. 2021) September 10 Daniel Truhitte, American...
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1944 (redirect from Deaths in 1944)
French singer July 4 Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman, investor and art collector Joe Critchlow, Canadian football player Albert Kapengut, Soviet...
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Events from the year 1651 in art. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini David Bailly – Self-portrait...
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1890 (redirect from Events in 1890)
publishes his influential book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783. Francis Galton announces a statistical demonstration of the uniqueness...
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books. Most book names are not written in full. They are abbreviated from their Latin names which can be seen in the article Books of the Vulgate. Example:...
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