Editing 1660 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 13]] &ndash; The [[Rigsraad]] (''High Council'') of Denmark is abolished and [[Denmark-Norway]] becomes an [[absolute monarchy]] as King [[Frederik III]] is recognized by the nobility as being entitled to have his throne passed to his descendants by [[hereditary monarchy]].<ref>Knud J. V. Jespersen, ''A History of Denmark'' (Macmillan Press, 2018) p. 54</ref><ref>Elise C. Otté, ''Denmark and Iceland'' (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881) pp. 107-108</ref>
* [[October 13]] to [[October 19]] &ndash; Ten of the 57 "[[List of regicides of Charles I|regicides]]" who signed the death warrant of [[Charles I of England]] in 1649 are executed over a period of one week, mostly at [[Charing Cross]] by being [[hanged, drawn and quartered]], a process which includes being disemboweled (in some cases before they have died) and then and burned.  The first to die is [[Thomas Harrison (soldier)|Thomas Harrison]], a leader of the [[Fifth Monarchists]].  He is followed by [[John Carew (regicide)|John Carew]] (October 15); [[John Cook (regicide)|John Cook]] and [[Hugh Peter]] (October 16);  ([[Adrian Scrope]], [[John Moore (regicide)|John Moore]], [[Gregory Clement]] and [[Thomas Scot]]) (October 17); and [[Daniel Axtell]] and [[Francis Hacker]] (October 19).
* [[November 28]] &ndash; At [[Gresham College]] in London, twelve 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]]).
* [[December 8]] &ndash; The first English actress appears on the professional stage in England in a non-singing role, as [[Desdemona]] in ''[[Othello]]'' at [[Gibbon's Tennis Court|Vere Street Theatre]] in London, following the reopening of the theatres (various opinions have been advanced that the actress was [[Margaret Hughes]], [[Anne Marshall]] or [[Katherine Corey]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=1-85986-000-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Elizabeth|last=Howe|title=The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660&ndash;1700|url=https://archive.org/details/firstenglishactr0000howe|url-access=registration|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|page=[https://archive.org/details/firstenglishactr0000howe/page/24 24]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Rosamond|last=Gilder|title=Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1931|page=166}}</ref>  Historian Elizabeth Howe notes, however, that both [[William Davenant]] and [[Thomas Killigrew]] had women in their acting companies before 1660, and that Anne Marshall might be just one of the first rather than the actual first.<ref>"The Vere Street Desdemona: ''Othello'' and the Theatrical Englishwoman, 1602—1660", by Clare McManus, in ''Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance'' (Bloomsbury, 2013) p. 222</ref>
* [[December 15]] &ndash; Andres Malong, a native chieftain of the town of [[San Carlos, Pangasinan|Binalatongan]] (now San Carlos) in the Philippines, leads a successful revolt against the Spanish colonial administrators to liberate [[Pangasinan]].<ref name=Constantino>Renato Constantino and Letizia R. Constantino, ''A History of the Philippines: From the Spanish Colonization to the Second World War'' (Monthly Review Press, 1975) p. 95</ref> He is proclaimed the King of Pangasinan, but the rebellion is suppressed on January 17, 1661,<ref name=Constantino/> and Pangasinan is reconquered by February.
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Royal African Company|The Company of the Royal Adventurers into Africa]], planned by [[James II of England|Prince James, brother of King Charles II]] to capture persons along the coast of [[West Africa]] for resale as slaves, receives its charter.  Prince James, later King James II, had started asking for investors (at 250 pounds sterling per share) starting on October 3, 1660.<ref>George Frederick Zook, ''The Company of Royal Adventurers Trading Into Africa'', reprinted from ''The Journal of Negro History'' (April 1919), reprinted by The New Era Printing Company, 1919) p. 8</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; The [[Convention Parliament (1660)|Convention Parliament]] is dissolved by King Charles II and elections are called for what will be called the [[Cavalier Parliament]].<ref name=Gardner/>