1662 (MDCLXII) was a common yearstarting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendarand a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1662nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 662nd year of the 2ndmillennium, the 62nd year of the 17thcentury, and the 3rd year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1662, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

• February 20 - Survivors of a shipwreck eat the last Dodo bird.

• April 30 – Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland, monarch (d. 1694)