Timeline June 1662

Events in June 1662 3

• 1613 – 1662 Henry Vane the Younger (1613-1662) Died 14 June 1662, aged 49 Vane was an English statesman who served as a colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay and later as a leading Parliamentarian during the English Civil War. Excluded from the general pardon granted at the Restoration, he was tried for treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. His execution was widely seen as politically motivated given his refusal to take part in the king's trial.
• 1623 – 1662 Zhu Youlang (1623-1662) Died 1 June 1662, aged 38 Zhu Youlang reigned as the Yongli Emperor, the last claimant of the Southern Ming dynasty, from exile-based courts across southern China. Captured and handed over by the Burmese court to the Qing general Wu Sangui, he was executed by strangulation in Kunming. His death marked the effective end of Ming resistance to Qing rule.
• 1624 – 1662 Zheng Chenggong (1624-1662) Died 23 June 1662, aged 37 Known in the West as Koxinga, Zheng Chenggong was a Ming loyalist general who led resistance against the Qing dynasty from bases along the Chinese coast. In 1662 he expelled the Dutch East India Company from Taiwan and founded the Kingdom of Tungning. He died of malaria shortly after the conquest.