1663 in England

• Monarch – Charles II

• 10 January – the Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/270 270]}}
• February – Parliament pressures King Charles into withdrawing a proposed Declaration of Indulgence.{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=188–189|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
• 24 March – the colony of Province of Carolina is established in North America.
• 27 March – the gold guinea coin worth one pound sterling (introduced 6 February) is proclaimed legal tender.
• 7 May – opening of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
• 8 July – King Charles grants a Royal Charter to the North American Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
• 27 July – Parliament passes the second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the American colonies to be sent in English ships from English ports.
• 21 August – concerned about the wintry weather, Parliament holds an intercessory fast.{{cite book|title=Agricultural Records, A.D. 220-1968|last=Stratton|first=J. M.|location=London|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=0-212-97022-4}}
• 28 August – severe frost.
• 31 August – Gilbert Sheldon enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.{{cite ODNB|first=John|last=Spurr|title=Sheldon, Gilbert (1598–1677)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25304|access-date=2011-11-14|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25304}}
• October – The Farnley Wood Plot to overthrow the monarchy.

• Roger L'Estrange appointed Surveyor of the Imprimery and Printing Presses{{cite book|chapter=The Censorship of L'Estrange|url=http://www.bartleby.com/221/1402.html|title=The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|access-date=2011-11-14}}{{cite SBDEL |wstitle= L'Estrange, Sir Roger |volume= | page= 236 |short=}} and licenser of the press.

• 25 February – Pierre Antoine Motteux, translator and dramatist (died 1718)
• 6 March – Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (died 1732)
• 17 May – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1721)
• 12 July – James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, son of King James II (died 1667)
• 28 September – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, illegitimate son of King Charles II, military commander (died of wounds 1690)
• John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton, admiral (died 1697)
• William Bowyer, printer (died 1737)
• Thomas Emlyn, clergyman (died 1741)
• William King, poet (died 1712)
• George Stepney, poet and diplomat (died 1707)

• 6 January – George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich, soldier (born 1585)
• 29 January – Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (born 1587)
• April – George Fane, Member of Parliament (born c. 1616)
• 2 April – Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland, Member of Parliament (born 1634)
• 4 June – William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1582)
• 25 June – John Bramhall, Archbishop (born 1594)
• 5 July – Samuel Newman, clergy (born 1602)
• 26 August – Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1603)
• Edward Burrough, Quaker (born 1634)
• Cheney Culpeper, alchemist (born 1601)
• Balthazar Gerbier, artist (born 1592, Netherlands)

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