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Events

January 1 - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. Samuel Pepys began his diary.
February 2 – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London.
February 23 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden.
February 27 – John Thurloe reinstated as England's secretary of State for a short time.
March 16 - The Long Parliament disbands.
May 8 - The Parliament of England declares Prince Charles Stuart King Charles II of England.
May 15 - John Thurloe arrested for high treason after English Restoration.
May 23 - King Charles II of England reaches the shores of his Kingdom.
May 25 – Charles II of England crowned.
May 29 - King Charles II of England arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration.
June 29 - John Thurloe released.
November 28 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning}" (later known as the Royal Society).

Theaters reopened in England – Margaret Hughes debuts as the first female actor as Desdemona in Othello.
Blaise Pascal's The Provincial Letters, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, was ordered shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.
Sweden recovers its southern provinces from Denmark.
Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces.
Hopkins School is founded.

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