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1662| 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | 1662 | England, Ireland [physics] | Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist Robert Boyle describes the law that will bear his name, stating that, for a fixed mass of gas in a container, the volume occupied by the gas is inversely proportional to the pressure it exerts. | | 22 January 1662 | Transylvania, Hungary, Ottoman Empire [wars] | Having been failed by his Austrian allies, Prince János Kemény of Transylvania is defeated and killed at the Battle of Nagyszöllös. The defeat completes the Ottoman conquest of Transylvania and leaves Hungary open to Ottoman invasion. | | 21 May 1662 | UK, Portugal [political events] | King Charles II of England marries Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, at Portsmouth, England. | | 19 August 1662 | France [births and deaths] | Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist who founded the theory of probability, and invented the first digital calculator, the syringe, and hydraulic press, dies in Paris, France (39). |
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