Editing 1662 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 15 ]] &ndash; The [[Royal Society]], founded by King [[Charles II of England and Scotland]] receives an official charter in London.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Royal Society|publisher=Times Publishing Company|year=1960|page=24|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Ignatius Andrew Akijan]] is installed as the new Patriarch of the [[Syriac Catholic Church]] for Christians within the Muslim-ruled [[Ottoman Empire]] after his appointment is confirmed by the [[Sultan Mehmed IV]].
* [[August 24]] &ndash; The [[Act of Uniformity 1662|Act of Uniformity]] goes into effect on St Bartholomew's Day,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|url=https://archive.org/details/everydaybookhis00munsgoog|publisher=D. Appleton & Co|first=Joel|last=Munsel|year=1858}}</ref> making mandatory in the [[Church of England]] the forms of worship prescribed in the new edition of the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' the deadline having been set for "every clergyman and every schoolmaster... to express, by August 24, his unfeigned consent to everything contained in the [[Book of Common Prayer]]. This is followed by the resignation of over 2,000 clergy who resign "for conscience sake".<ref>Samuel Rawson Gardiner''A Student's History of England: From the Earliest Times to 1885'', Volume II (Longmans, Green, and Company, 1891) p. 585</ref> Those who refuse to take the required oath of conformity to the [[established church]] are subject to the [[Great Ejection]] from their jobs.
* [[September 9]] &ndash; The Parliament of Scotland passes the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, an amnesty (with numerous specific exceptions) for most political crimes committed by Scottish citizens during the years between January 1, 1637 (prior to the 1639 beginning of the [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] and before the restoration of the monarchy on September 16, 1660.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The first payments under [[Hearth tax#England|England's hearth tax law]], enacted on May 19, become due.