1662
| Years: 1659 1660 1661 - 1662 - 1663 1664 1665 | |
| Decades: 1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1662 in topic: | |
Events
- March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris
- May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England
- May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record.
- Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400.000
- Royal Society receives royal charter
- Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
- John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, published statistical information about the births and deaths in London.
Births
- January 27 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
- April 30 - Mary II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1694)
Deaths
- February 13 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596)
- August 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
- December 30 - Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1628)