Events
- April 15 - Edward Howard's play The Change of Crowns receives its première in London. Actor John Lacy improvises a few lines about influence-peddling at court, angering King Charles II, a member of the audience (as is Samuel Pepys). The theatre is closed for a time, and Lacy is jailed.
- September 12 - Sir William Davenant's adaptation of the old play Greene's Tu Quoque receives its première.
- November - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, is impeached by Parliament and forced into exile in France, where he spends the rest of his life working on his history of the English Civil War.
- November 7 - The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest by John Dryden and Sir William Davenant, receives its première.
- The Roman Catholic Church places the works of René Descartes on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
- Molière's play, Tartuffe, is banned.
- Edmund Castell is imprisoned for debt.
- Elias Ashmole presents the library of John Tradescant to the University of Oxford.
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