Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s 1640s 1650s – 1660s – 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years:	1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1660s decade ran from January 1, 1660, to December 31, 1669.

[edit] Events and trends

• Samuel Pepys began his famous diary in 1660, but he ended it, due to failing eyesight, in 1669.
• The French East India Company was founded in 1664.
• 1665: The Great Plague in England, and particularly in London, broke out. It would later be considered an outbreak of bubonic plague.
• 1666: An enormous urban fire burned down most of the City of London. However, many of the rats considered responsible for the Great Plague are also destroyed, and the epidemic soon ceases.
• Piracy in the Caribbean was at its climax, the main bases being Port Royal and Tortuga.

[edit] World leaders

• King Frederick III of Denmark (1648–1670).
• King Charles II of England (1660–1685).
• King Louis XIV of France (1643–1715).
• Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658–1705).
• King John II of Poland (1649–1668).
• King Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1669–1673).
• King Afonso VI of Portugal (1656–1667).
• King Peter II of Portugal (1667–1706).
• Tsar Aleksey I of Russia (1645–1676).
• King Philip IV of Spain (1621–1665).
• King Charles II of Spain (1665–1700).
• King Charles X of Sweden (1654–1660).
• King Charles XI of Sweden (1660–1697).
• Padshah Aurangazeb of the Mughal Empire(1658–1707)