Editing 1662 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Dziaddin Mukarram Shah I of Kedah|Dziaddin Mukarram Shah]] becomes the new Sultan of [[Kedah Sultanate|Kedah]], an independent kingdom on the [[Malay Peninsula]], upon the death of his father, [[Muhyiddin Mansur Shah of Kedah|Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur]].
* [[January 10]] &ndash; At the age of 19, [[Louis I, Prince of Monaco|Louis Grimaldi]] becomes the new [[Prince of Monaco]] upon the death of his grandfather, [[Honoré II, Prince of Monaco|Honoré II]].
* [[January 14]] &ndash; A Portuguese garrison invades Morocco and kidnaps 35 women and girls, then steals 400 head of cattle. The Moroccans counterattack and kill the garrison's commander, 12 knights and 38 other Portuguese soldiers before the surviving Portuguese are given sanctuary inside the [[English Tangier|English fortress at Tangier]]. A brief war ensues between England and Morocco.
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Former Chinese Emperor [[Zhu Youlang|Yongli]], who had surrendered to General [[Wu Sangui]] in December, is put on a boat along with his sons and grandsons at [[Sagaing]] in [[Myanmar|Burma]] (at the time, Burma), leaving under the promise that they will be given safe passage elsewhere in Burma. Instead, the former Emperor is taken back to China and executed on June 1.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[John Kemény (prince)|János Kemény]], [[Prince of Transylvania]] for slightly more than a year, is killed during Transylvania's defeat by the Ottoman Empire in a battle at Nagyszőllős, now the city of [[Vynohradiv]] in Ukraine. An Ottoman appointee, [[Michael I Apafi|Michael Apafi]], replaces Kemény in September and the status of the principality of Transylvania (now part of [[Romania]]) is never regained.
* [[February 1]] &ndash; Chinese general [[Koxinga]] (Zheng Chenggong) captures the [[Dutch East India Company]]'s settlement at [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] (now [[Tainan]]) on the island of [[Taiwan]] after a nine-month [[Siege of Fort Zeelandia|siege]], ending the company's rule on the island, then establishes the [[Kingdom of Tungning]]. In response, the [[Kangxi Emperor]] of the mainland [[Qing dynasty]] [[Great Clearance|relocates all residents]] along the southern coast, by 50 miles.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; A violent storm in the [[Indian Ocean]] strikes a fleet of seven ships of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) as they are traveling back to the [[Dutch Republic]] from [[Jakarta|Batavia]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now Jakarta, Indonesia). Three of the freighters— ''Wapen van Holland'', ''Gekroonde Leeuw'' and ''Prins Willem'' — are lost with all hands. The ships ''Vogel Phoenix'', ''Maarsseveen'' and ''Prinses Royal'' make their way back to the Netherlands. The other ship, the freighter ''[[Arnhem (ship)|Arnhem]]'' remains afloat and its roughly 80 survivors are able to evacuate in boats to search for land.<ref name=Grihault>[http://www.dodosite.com/dodo_and_solitaire_research.htm Alan Grihault, "The story of the survivors of a shipwreck who saw Dodos in 1662?", an abridged version of recent research" (2005), Dodosite.com]</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The survivors of the wreck of the Dutch freighter ''[[Arnhem (ship)|Arnhem]]'' strike reefs but are able to make their way to an uninhabited island,<ref name=Grihault/> probably the [[Islets of Mauritius#Île D'Ambre|Ile D'Ambre]]<ref name=Parish>Jolyon C. Parish, ''The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History'' (Indiana University Press, 2013) p. 45</ref> or Ilot Fourneau <ref name=Grihault/> both islands within the territory of [[Mauritius]]. During more than two months while shipwrecked, the survivors kill and eat the local wildlife, including the last surviving [[dodo]]. They are rescued by the English ship ''Truroe'' in May.<ref name=Parish/>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Carrosses à cinq sols]], a short-lived experiment of the first public [[bus]] system (horse-drawn wagons holding eight passengers) begins in Paris as the idea of mathematician [[Blaise Pascal]] and financed by the Duc de Rouanez, with transportation to and from the Royal Square for the cost of five [[French sol#Late Middle Ages|sous]].<ref>"The Marais: 'Paris' in the seventeenth century", by Joan Dejean, in ''The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris'', ed. by Anna-Louise Milne (Cambridge University Press, 2013) p. 30</ref>