Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita, published this year by Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit. The Dutch Fort Zealandia. Year 1662 (MDCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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January–June

• January 23 – Battle of Nagysz ll s: J nos Kem ny of Transylvania is killed.
• February 1 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the Dutch Fort Zealandia on the island of Taiwan after a 9-month siege, then establishes the Kingdom of Tungning. In response, the Kangxi Emperor of the mainland Qing Dynasty migrates all residents along the southern coast by 50 miles.
• March 18 – A short-lived experiment of the first public buses (holding 8 passengers) begins in Paris.
• 3 May John Winthrop the Younger the son of the first governor of Massachustts, has been honoured by being made a fellow of the Royal Society, England's new scientific society. Winthrop has used the election to the society to gain access to the king, who has granted him a new charter uniting the colonies of Connecticut and New Havem.
• May 9 – Samuel Pepys witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London (the first on record).
• May 16 – The Hearth Tax is introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.
• May 30 – Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England; as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England.

July–December

• July 15 – The Royal Society receives an official charter.
• October 27 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 (or 2.5 million livres).
• November 28 – The Royal Society holds its first meeting.
• December 20 – Nicolas Fouquet is sentenced to banishment.
• December 26 – Moli re's play The School for Wives premieres.

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• The Act of Uniformity 1662 in England and Wales makes mandatory the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
• Robert Boyle publishes Nova experimenta physico-mechanica, setting forth the law bearing his name.
• Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
• John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes statistical information about births and deaths in London.
• The Akademie der Bildenden K nste N rnbergde:Akademie der Bildenden K nste N rnberg is founded in Germany.

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Births

• January 9 – John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d. 1711)
• January 12 – Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1742)
• January 27 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
• February 15 – James Renwick, Covenanter martyr (d. 1688)
• April 30 – Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1694)
• May 3 – Matth us Daniel P ppelmann, German architect (d. 1737)
• May 18 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (d. 1719)
• June 11 – Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1712)
• July 11 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
• August 5 – James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
• August 13 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
• August 25 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (d. 1724)
• August 28 – Maria Aurora of K nigsmarck, royal mistress (d. 1728)
• October 18 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
• October 19 – William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1728)
• November 11 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (d. 1738)
• December 13 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
• December 17 – Samuel Wesley, English poet and father of the Wesley brothers (d. 1735)
• December 18 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)

Deaths

• January 10 – Honor II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1597)
• February 9 – Judith Quiney, daughter of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
• February 13 – Elizabeth of Bohemia (Elizabeth Stuart) (b. 1596)
• March 17 – Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland (b. 1605)
• March 20 – Fran ois le M tel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
• April 14 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
• April 22 – John Tradescant the younger, botanist (b. 1608)
• May 23 – John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
• June 14 – Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
• July 14 – Camilla Fa , secret wife of the Duke of Mantua (b. c. 1599)
• July 16 – Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena (b. 1634)
• August 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
• September 3 – William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
• September 22 – John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
• October 21 – Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
• November 12 – Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch painter (b. 1589)
• November 20 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
• December 20 – Axel Lillie, Swedish politician (b. 1603)
• December 30 – Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1628)

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