24th March » The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in Restoration (England) or restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
8th July » Charles II of England grants John Clarke (Baptist minister) known as John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
27th July » The Parliament of England English Parliament passes the Navigation Acts The Navigation Acts second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the Thirteen Colonies American colonies have to be sent in England English ships from English ports.
Famous Birthdays in 1663
1st February » Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (d. 1748)
12th February » Cotton Mather, American minister (d. 1728)
25th February » Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-English playwright (d. 1718)
6th March » Francis Atterbury, English bishop (d. 1732)
7th March » Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745)
16th March » Jean-Baptiste Matho, French composer (d. 1743)
22nd March » August Hermann Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (d. 1727)
20th May » William Bradford (Colonial printer) called William Bradford, English-American printer (d. 1752)
24th June » Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (d. 1742)
1st July » Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (d. 1738)
31st August » Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
25th September » Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711)