1662 in England

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17 March - Two old women are hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft at the Bury St. Edmunds witch trial.
9 May - Samuel Pepys witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London, the first on record.
14 May - Catherine of Braganza lands at Portsmouth.^[1]
16 May - Hearth Tax is introduced in England, Wales and Scotland.
21 May - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England at Portsmouth in both a secret Catholic and a public Anglican ceremony.^[1]
15 July - The Royal Society receives its royal charter.
23 August - An extravagant pageant on the River Thames greets the arrival of Charles II and his new queen Catherine of Braganza on their arrival at the Palace of Whitehall from Hampton Court.^[1]
24 August - The Act of Uniformity is introduced,^[2] making mandatory in the Church of England the forms of worship prescribed in the new edition of the Book of Common Prayer. This is followed by the Great Ejection of over 2000 clergy who refuse to take the required oath of conformity to the established church.
27 October - Charles II sells Dunkirk to France for £400 000 (2.5 million livres).^[3]

John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes information about births and deaths in London.
The second edition of Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching The Spring of the Air, and its Effects is published in Oxford containing Boyle's Law.
The Poor Relief Act ("Settlement Act") is passed.
The Licensing of the Press Act is passed, restricting London printers to a total of 24. Books printed abroad are prohibited. Roger L'Estrange is granted a warrant to seize seditious books or pamphlets.

1 2 3 Wynne, S. M. (2004). "Catherine (1638–1705)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4894. Retrieved 2012-06-04. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & Co.
↑ "Correspondence and papers of the first Duke of Ormonde, chiefly on Irish and English public affairs: ref. MS. Carte 218, fol(s). 5 – date: 26 December 1662" (Description of contents of carte papers). Oxford: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts. 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-17.

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