• 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    from the 1560s through the 1660s. Frisland originally may also have been a cartographic approximation of Iceland, but in 1558 the influential Zeno map...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 1650s in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – Charles II (until his disposition in 1651) Commonwealth of England from 1651 until the Restoration in 1660...
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    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...
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  • (1637–1663) Settiaraja, Datu (1663–1704) Petta Matinroe’ ri Polka, Datu (1660s) Indonesia: Lesser Sunda Islands Bali Kingdom: Gelgel (complete list) –...
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    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...
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  • bridge player in the 1930s David Bruce (physician) (fl. 1660s), Scottish physician David Bruce (microbiologist) (1855–1931), Scottish pathologist and...
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  • majority. While Presbyterians of Scottish descent and origin had already become the majority of Ulster Protestants by the 1660s, when Protestants still made...
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    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...
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    reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England, established in January 1649...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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  • 1630 – 19 December 1708) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister imprisoned for non-conformity in Northern Ireland in the 1660s before being pardoned by King...
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