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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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  • The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1660 kHz: 1660 AM is a Regional broadcast frequency. LRI232 in Nogoya, Entre Rios All stations operate...
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    Commonwealth of England was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed...
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    The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England...
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    GPUs. The GeForce 16 series includes the GTX 1650, 1650 Super, 1660, 1660 Super, 1660 Ti, and a lower-end GTX 1630, which was released later. The GTX...
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  • Charles Stuart (22 October 1660 – 5 May 1661) was the first of four sons and eight children born from the marriage between the Duke of York (later King...
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    in 1660, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all...
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  • 1660s BC (redirect from 1660 BC)
    The 1660s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1669 BC to December 31, 1660 BC. 1664 BC: Gravitational interactions with Saturn result in the centaur...
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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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    occupation of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War (1655–1660) only; in Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge (Polish:...
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  • was re-enacted and broadened with the Restoration by the Navigation Act 1660, and further developed and tightened by the Navigation Acts of 1663, 1673...
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    followed his conviction for treason by the High Court of Justice. After the 1660 Stuart Restoration, the fifty-nine signatories were among a total of 104...
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  • 1660s (redirect from 1660–1669)
    The 1660s decade ran from 1 January 1660, to 31 December 1669. January 1 At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from...
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    and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 was an Act of the Parliament of England (12 Cha. 2. c. 11), the long title...
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    Anna Leszczyńska née Jabłonowska (1660–1727) was a Polish noblewoman, born into the House of Jablonowski and the mother of King of Poland Stanislaus I...
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    diplomat who served as the English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1660 to 1669. Finch was the only surviving son of Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea...
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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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    in May 1660. In some parts of England the day is still celebrated. It has also been known as Shick Shack Day, or Oak and Nettle Day. In 1660, the English...
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    The Convention Parliament of England (25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660) followed the Long Parliament that had finally voted for its own dissolution on...
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    Major-General Thomas Harrison (baptised 16 July 1616 - executed 13 October 1660) was a prominent member of the radical religious sect known as the Fifth...
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    Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (19 November 1597 – 26 April 1660) was an Electress consort of Brandenburg as the wife of George William, Elector...
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  • The 1660 destruction of Safed occurred during the Druze power struggle in Mount Lebanon, at the time of the rule of Ottoman sultan Mehmed IV. The towns...
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    are named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who brought them to England in 1660, although they were reportedly being produced in the Netherlands earlier...
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    son Richard, whose weakness led to a power vacuum. This culminated in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, after which Cromwell's body was removed from Westminster...
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  • 1660 Wood, provisional designation 1953 GA, is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter...
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  • 1660 – Completion of Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque) in the Red Fort of Delhi. Teele Wali Masjid, Lucknow in the regin of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, Built in...
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    exile in Europe. He returned to England after the Stuart Restoration in 1660, and although created Duke of Newcastle in 1665, he remained on the fringes...
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    Kingdom of England (category States and territories established in 1660)
    Tudor 1485–1603 and Stuart 1603–1707 (interrupted by the Interregnum of 1649–1660). All English monarchs after 1066 ultimately descend from the Normans, and...
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    I in January 1649 (and from September 1651 in Scotland) and ended in May 1660 when his son Charles II was restored to the thrones of the three realms,...
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    over to his next eldest brother, Henry Howard, who acted in his place. In 1660 Henry successfully petitioned the House of Lords to have the attaindered...
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