Anniversarial for 2010: 350 years
1660 sees the Restoration: after the death of Oliver Cromwell and the collapse of the Protectorate, Charles II is restored to English throne on 29 May. In the new freer atmosphere after the king's return, the Royal Society of London is founded on 28 November. Among the items that will be highlighted this year, we will consider some of the more important and/or more unusual and interesting figures whose birth or death is marked in 2010, and who appear in EE:
1660 — births
- Churchill, Sarah, duchess of Marlborough (1660–1744), English courtier
- Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran (c. 1660–1707), English general, politician
- Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731), English author, businessman, spy
- George I, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1660–1727), British monarch
- Kennet, White, bishop of Peterborough (1660–1728), English churchman, antiquarian
- Sloane, Sir Hans (1660–1753), Irish physician, collector, academy member
- Smithsby, Rabsy (b. before 1660), English gentlewoman
- Stearne, John, bishop of Clogher (1660–1745), Irish churchman, philanthropis
1660 — deaths
- Du Prat, Abraham (1616–1660), French anatomist
- Freinshem, Johannes (1608–1660), German classicist, university professor
- Mylon, Claude (1618–1660), French lawyer, mathematician
- Noël, Étienne (1581–1660), French Jesuit, physicist