Events from the 1660s in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – Charles II (since May 29, 1660) 1660: 1 January – Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses...
8 KB (766 words) - 17:39, 13 August 2024
The 1660s decade ran from 1 January 1660, to 31 December 1669. January 1 At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from...
658 bytes (26,210 words) - 12:51, 17 November 2023
return of the monarchy to Scotland in 1660 after the period of the Commonwealth, and the subsequent three decades of Scottish history until the Revolution...
52 KB (6,564 words) - 03:51, 25 August 2024
from the 1560s through the 1660s. Frisland originally may also have been a cartographic approximation of Iceland, but in 1558 the influential Zeno map...
5 KB (483 words) - 08:28, 5 November 2023
Bognie Castle (category Scotland castle stubs)
Huntly and Banff in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland. Once rising four storeys high, it is thought to have been constructed in the 1660s by the Morisons...
2 KB (259 words) - 15:59, 17 October 2024
Aberdeen (redirect from Aberdeen, Scotland)
[ˈeːbərdin] ; Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dheathain [ˈopəɾ ˈʝɛ.ɪɲ]) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city. Historically...
165 KB (14,256 words) - 14:23, 17 November 2024
James II of England (redirect from James VII of Scotland)
James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious...
84 KB (9,460 words) - 19:59, 21 November 2024
The Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652), also known as the Third Civil War, was the final conflict in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of armed conflicts...
49 KB (6,062 words) - 08:26, 19 November 2024
List of peers 1660–1669 (category 1660s in England)
1669. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant...
63 KB (56 words) - 14:18, 6 December 2022
1650s in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – Charles II (until his disposition in 1651) Commonwealth of England from 1651 until the Restoration in 1660...
11 KB (910 words) - 19:43, 26 August 2024
partially because of persecution of the Quakers in the 1660s and the 1670s. Scots began arriving in East Jersey in 1683 at Perth Amboy and spread south to Monmouth...
17 KB (2,070 words) - 07:05, 2 September 2024
(1637–1663) Settiaraja, Datu (1663–1704) Petta Matinroe’ ri Polka, Datu (1660s) Indonesia: Lesser Sunda Islands Bali Kingdom: Gelgel (complete list) –...
122 KB (12,299 words) - 13:18, 15 September 2024
English Civil War (redirect from Civil war in England)
ISBN 978-0-312-12733-6. Keeble, N. H. (2002), The Restoration: England in the 1660s, Oxford: Blackwell Kelsey, Sean (2003). "The Trial of Charles I". English...
121 KB (15,045 words) - 18:25, 20 November 2024
bridge player in the 1930s David Bruce (physician) (fl. 1660s), Scottish physician David Bruce (microbiologist) (1855–1931), Scottish pathologist and...
1 KB (186 words) - 04:34, 10 April 2023
Ulster Protestants (redirect from Protestantism in Northern Ireland)
majority. While Presbyterians of Scottish descent and origin had already become the majority of Ulster Protestants by the 1660s, when Protestants still made...
22 KB (2,040 words) - 08:04, 6 October 2024
1 - 1660s 2 – c.1660 3 – 1662 4 – 1663 5 – 1663 6 - 1665 7 – 1666 8 – 1670 9 – 1670 10 – 1671–74 11 – 1670s English court dress from the 1660s, made...
32 KB (4,025 words) - 14:21, 18 June 2024
Stuart Restoration (redirect from The Restoration in England)
reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England, established in January 1649...
39 KB (4,691 words) - 04:27, 7 November 2024
Arbroath (redirect from Arbroath, Scotland)
historic maps of Arbroath from the 1660s onward at National Library of Scotland Engraving of Arbroath in 1693 by John Slezer at National Library of Scotland...
103 KB (10,206 words) - 18:39, 7 November 2024
Neidpath Castle (category Listed castles in Scotland)
building report notes that there was damage to the west wing. During the 1660s, the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale remodelled the castle, and constructed outbuildings...
10 KB (1,068 words) - 22:18, 17 November 2024
Trews (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
such, when Lowland regiments became the first of the Scottish regiments to be formed in the mid-1660s to late 1680s, the Lowland soldiers wore standard British...
11 KB (1,359 words) - 17:22, 9 November 2024
Amsterdam (redirect from Nightlife in Amsterdam)
between 1585 and 1610. By 1600, its population was around 50,000. During the 1660s, Amsterdam's population reached 200,000. The city's growth levelled off...
198 KB (18,390 words) - 11:30, 20 November 2024
John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair (category Burgh Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland)
author of the Institutions of the Law of Scotland, first published in 1681 but in circulation since the 1660s and generally accepted as 'the foundation...
12 KB (902 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
or two figures. Vermeer's paintings of the 1660s are generally more popular than his work from the 1670s: in the eyes of some, his later work is colder...
15 KB (503 words) - 03:14, 10 October 2024
William Cleland (poet) (category 1660s births)
described in a royal proclamation of 16 June 1679, among the leaders of the insurgents. He escaped to Holland, but in 1685 was again in Scotland in connection...
3 KB (403 words) - 22:51, 7 July 2024
Battle of Winwick (category 1648 in Scotland)
England in the 1660s. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19574-0. Kenyon, John & Ohlmeyer, Jane (2002). "The Background to the Civil Wars in the Stuart...
47 KB (6,108 words) - 06:30, 16 November 2024
Ireland and Scotland, between the parliamentary forces and those opposed to them, in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Anglo-Scottish war of 1650–1652...
26 KB (3,246 words) - 12:38, 21 October 2024
Plantation of Ulster (category 17th century in Scotland)
Scotland. It was at this point that Scottish Presbyterians became the majority community in the province. Whereas in the 1660s, they made up some 20% of Ulster's...
51 KB (5,929 words) - 07:46, 13 November 2024
George Keith (missionary) (category Scottish emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies)
(Quakers) in the 1660s, accompanying George Fox, William Penn, and Robert Barclay on a mission to the Netherlands and Germany in 1677. In 1685, three...
11 KB (1,269 words) - 01:06, 24 September 2024
Christian Caldwell (category Witch trials in Scotland)
Caldwell (Caddell) was a cross-dressing witch-hunter active in Morayshire, Scotland during the 1660s. Caldwell signed a contract with the shire of Moray (Elgin)...
3 KB (281 words) - 18:58, 27 January 2024
Adam White (minister) (redirect from Adam White (Scottish minister))
1630 – 19 December 1708) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister imprisoned for non-conformity in Northern Ireland in the 1660s before being pardoned by King...
9 KB (1,068 words) - 21:23, 2 July 2024