Events from the year 1662 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 6 January â Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, diplomat (died 1723)
- 9 January â John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1711)
- 27 January â Richard Bentley, classical scholar (died 1742)
- 10 March â Francis Pierrepont, politician (died 1693)
- 9 April â Edward Hawarden, Catholic theologian (died 1735)
- 30 April â Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland, queen regnant (died 1694)
- 18 May â George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (died 1719)
- 7 June â Celia Fiennes, traveller (died 1741)
- 18 June â Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, illegitimate son of Charles II, courtier (died 1730)
- 1 July â John Dolben, politician (died 1710)
- 13 August â Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, politician (died 1748)
- 6 October â William Walsh, poet, critic, correspondent and Member of Parliament (died 1708)
- 17 October â Arthur Rawdon, Member of Parliament (died 1695)
- 18 October â Matthew Henry, Presbyterian minister (died 1714)
- 11 November
- John Chesshyre, lawyer (died 1738)
- Alexander Pendarves, politician (died 1726)
- 26 November â John Hudson, classical scholar (died 1719)
- 17 December â Samuel Wesley, poet and clergyman (died 1735)
- unknown date â Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester (died 1722)
Deaths
- 13 February â Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (born 1596 in Scotland)
- 14 April â William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, statesman (born 1582)
- 19 April â Miles Corbet, Puritan politician (born 1595)
- 22 April â John Tradescant the younger, botanist and gardener (born 1608)
- 8 May â Peter Heylin, ecclesiastical writer (born 1599)
- 14 June â Henry Vane the Younger, Governor of Massachusetts (born 1613)
- 3 September â William Lenthall, politician (born 1591)
- 20 September â John Gauden, bishop and writer (born 1605)
- 22 September â John Biddle, Unitarian theologian (born 1615)
- 21 October â Henry Lawes, composer (born 1595)
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