1662

Year 1662 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - The pirate  seizes the island of  after a nine-month siege then establish the . In response,  migrated all residents along the southern coast by 50 miles.
 * – Short-timed experiment of the first public es holding 8 passengers begins in.
 * - witnessed a  show in ; the first on record.
 * - introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.
 * - marries  – as part of the dowry,  cedes  and  to.

July - December

 * - sells  to  for £40,000 (or 2.5 million s).

Undated

 * is introduced in.
 * receives.
 * is incorporated as a town.
 * , in one of the earliest uses of, published statistical information about the births and deaths in.
 * Foundation of the "" in.

Births

 * -, English classical scholar (d. )
 * -, Scotland, and Ireland (d. )
 * -, German architect (d. )
 * -, English Bishop of Bristol (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * -, Scottish historian (d. )
 * -, English politician (d. )
 * -, American President of Harvard (d. )
 * -, English non-conformist minister (d. )
 * -, English lawyer (d. )
 * -, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. )
 * -, Scottish politician (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * - Elizabeth of Bohemia  (b. )
 * -, French poet (b. )
 * -, English statesman (b. )
 * -, English bishop and writer (b. )
 * -, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. )
 * -, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. )
 * -, English politician (b. )
 * -, English theologian (b. )
 * -, English composer (b. )
 * -, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. )
 * -, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria (b. )


 * See also .