21 Dec 1636: Hugh Peter becomes minister at Massachusetts (BM)

Later supported execution of Charles I, executed Oct 1660, head placed on Bridge. Perhaps he should have stayed in Salem.

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Le saviez-vous ?
En 1660, la N.-France demeure peu peuplée, mal défendue. Elle est entre les mains de compagnies qui priorisent l'économie et non le peuplement. Louis XIV décide de prendre en charge son développement par l'intermédiaire d'un gouverneur, un intendant et un évêque.

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1662: James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond arrived to take up role Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Previously held post various times since 1643 but 1650s lived in exile with Charles II. Upon restoration Charles to throne 1660, became major figure! https://t.co/nR663QrGGJ

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«29 mai 1660, Charles II Stuart, fils du roi Charles 1er, monte sur le trône d'Angleterre. C'est la fin de la « Grande Rébellion »une décennie sanglante marquée par la décapitation de son père, Charles 1er, et la dictature républicaine d'Oliver Cromwell »
https://t.co/tsEs1un8c2

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Le 17 mai 1642
Fondation de Montréal
Image: Reconstitution plausible du fort de Ville-Marie vers 1660, basée sur les recherches archéologiques menées sur le lieu de fondation de Montréal de 2002 à 2015. Marc Holmes/© Pointe-à-Callière 2017
https://t.co/lKxeMYEBxT

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15 May 1660, Parliament passed Acts of Attainder against Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride in preparation for the return of Charles II. Given that all four men were already long dead they weren't terribly aware of this...

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2/2 Who is she waiting for, late at night? Girl with a candle at the window, c. 1660, by Gerrit Dou, whose day was today.

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6 Mar 1660: Edward Montagu, who would become Earl of in July 1660, asks Samuel Pepys to go to sea with him as his secretary

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21 Dec 1636: Hugh Peter becomes minister at Massachusetts (BM) Later supported execution of Charles I, executed Oct 1660, head placed on Bridge. Perhaps he should have stayed in Salem.

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Female applied tile c.1675-1700, coll. w. image after drawings of Gesina ter Borch, ca,. 1660, coll. tile made in Harlingen,

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15 May 1660, Parliament passed Acts of Attainder against Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride in preparation for the return of Charles II. Given that all four men were already long dead they weren't terribly aware of this...

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in 1660, Britain is about to get a whole lot merrier when King Charles II arrives in Dover to claim the throne. Coincidentally, he gets married too a year later, to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza

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Sébastien Bourdon,
BornOnThisDay 1616.
Classical landscape.
C. 1660,
Oil on Canvas.

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A woman appeared on an English public stage for the first time in 1660, as in https://t.co/z01eHkwz7i

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Drinking Bacchus 1623, The Drinker 1660, The King Drinks! 1630-50

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