• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    with a Busy Woman, 1650. National Gallery of Art, Washington, US: Young Woman in an Interior, ca. 1660. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France:...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Cobham, English politician (d. 1643) Adrian Scrope, English regicide (d. 1660) Rose of Turaida, famous Latvian murder victim (d. 1620) François Tristan...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Ingrid Roscoe (category English art historians)
    Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851, published in November 2009. The book is an update of Rupert Gunnis's Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (originally...
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    Indies Company slave ship Leusden capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes, and leaves the slaves...
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    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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    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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    Jack (March 9, 2015). The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons. p. 922. ISBN 978-1-4443-3020-5. Louis Heilprin...
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    The Geographer (category 1660 paintings)
    together in Rotterdam on 27 April 1713 (No. 10 or 11), for 300 florins (a "considerable sum", according to Wheelock). Hendrik Sorgh, an art broker, may...
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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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    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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