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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 19]] &ndash; Three of the former members of the English Parliament who had signed the death warrant for [[Charles I of England]] in 1649 and then fled into exile in the Netherlands after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 — [[Miles Corbet]], [[John Okey]] and [[John Barkstead]] — are hanged after having been extradited, returned to England, and convicted of [[regicide]]. Their bodies are then [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|drawn and quartered]].
* [[April 22]] &ndash; The [[Paugussett tribe]], granted reservations in the British colony of [[Connecticut]] in North America, sell a large amount of tribal land to Captain [[Joseph Hawley (captain)|Joseph Hawley]] including several towns in [[Fairfield County, Connecticut|Fairfield County]]: [[Shelton, Connecticut|Shelton]], [[Trumbull, Connecticut|Trumbull]], [[Derby, Connecticut|Derby]] and [[Monroe, Connecticut|Monroe]].
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Chinese warlord [[Zheng Chenggong]] sends a message to the Spanish government of the Philippines demanding payment of [[tribute]] and threatening to send a fleet of ships to conquer the area. The message reaches the Spanish Governor-General on May 5, and preparations are made to resist the invasion.
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[John Winthrop the Younger]], the son of the first governor of Massachusetts, is honored by being made a fellow of the [[Royal Society]], England's new scientific society. Winthrop uses his election to the Society to gain access to the king, who grants him a new charter, uniting the colonies of [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]] and [[New Haven Colony|New Haven]].  
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Samuel Pepys]] witnesses a [[Punch and Judy]] show in London (the first on record).
* [[May 16]] &ndash; The [[hearth tax]] is introduced in England and Wales. 
* [[May 19]]
**The [[Act of Uniformity 1662]], officially "An Act for the uniformity of common prayer and service in the Church, and administration of the sacraments", is given royal assent after being passed by the English Parliament to regulate the form of public prayers, sacraments, and other rites of the [[Church of England]] to conform with the newest edition of the [[Book of Common Prayer]], the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 prayer book]].<ref>Henry Gee and William John Hardy, editors., ''Documents Illustrative of English Church History'' (Macmillan and Company, 1896) p. 600</ref>
**Royal assent is also given to England's new [[Hearth tax#England|hearth tax law]], with one shilling charged for each stove or fireplace in a building, to be collected on 29 September and on 25 March each year in order to provide the £1,200,000 annual household income for King Charles II. The unpopular tax is abolished in 1689. 
* [[May 21]] &ndash; (May 31 N.S.); Princess [[Catherine of Braganza]], daughter of [[John IV of Portugal|King João IV]] of [[Portugal]], marries [[Charles II of England]].<ref>W. M. Lupton, English History from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times (Longmans, Green and Co., 1866) p. 272</ref>  As part of the [[dowry]], Portugal cedes [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in India, and [[Tangier]] in Morocco, to England.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; Rioting in the Chinese section of [[Manila]] breaks out in the wake of calls to kill non-Christian Chinese residents of the Philippines, and the Spanish Army fires cannons at the rioting crowd. An order follows for non-Christian Chinese Filipinos to leave Manila, and for Christian Filipinos to register with the government. Boats begin transporting the non-Christians back to China
* [[May]] &ndash; The last credible report of a sighting of the [[dodo]] bird, now extinct, is made by Volkert Evertsz, a survivor of the shipwreck of the Dutch ship [[Arnhem (ship)|''Arnhem'']], which struck reefs on February 12.<ref>[https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?139346 "Arnehem (+1662)", "The Wrecksite"]</ref> The survivors had made their way in a small boat to Ile d'Ambre, an island in the Indian Ocean {{convert|200|km}} northeast of [[Mauritius]]. When rescued by the English ship ''Truroe'' in May,<ref name="Parish"/> Evertsz reports that he and his group had survived by eating the local wildlife, including the dodo.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/when-did-dodo-go-extinct-maybe-later-we-thought-8C11361418|title=When did the dodo go extinct? Maybe later than we thought|last=Main|first=Douglas|date=October 9, 2013|work=NBC News|access-date=February 4, 2019}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The "[[Sangley Massacre (1662)|Sangley Massacre]]" is ordered by [[Sabiniano Manrique de Lara]], the Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines]], with the directive for the government to kill all Filipinos of Chinese ancestry — [[Sangley]]s — who disobey orders to assemble at Manila for deportation.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; The [[Matthews baronets]] [[British nobility]] title is created.<ref name="Leigh Rayment's list of baronets">{{cite web |title= Leigh Rayment's list of baronets |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021184256/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm |archive-date=21 October 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The [[Pierce baronets]] British nobility title is created.<ref name="Leigh Rayment's list of baronets"/>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Koxinga]], who had founded the [[Kingdom of Tungning]] on the island of [[Taiwan]] a year earlier, names his successor while on his deathbed. He appoints his son, [[Zheng Jing]], whom he had earlier ordered unsuccessfully to be executed, as the new King.