1660s in Scotland

none 1660 Events from the 1660s in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents Monarch – Charles IICharles II https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/charles-ii Westminster Abbey 24 December 2019 en (since May 29, 1660) Events 1660: 1 January – Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and advances towards London in support of the English Restoration.http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/1.htm Chambers' Book of Days January 1 2007-12-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20071217212154/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/1.htm 2007-12-17 29 May – Charles II is crowned King of England, Scotland and Ireland. 21 December – Mercurius Caledonius established in Edinburgh, the first example of a newspaper in Scotland, running until 1661.Newspapers - Rare Book Collections - National Library of Scotland - National Library of Scotland https://www.nls.uk/collections/rare-books/collections/newspapers www.nls.uk 24 December 2019 1661: January – An independent Parliament of Scotland is restored; it is called the "Drunken Parliament" by John Welsh of Irongray.McCrie Charles Greig https://archive.org/stream/freechurchofscot00mccr#page/48/search/Drunken+Parliament The Free Church of Scotland: her ancestry, her claims, and her conflicts 1893 T. & T. Clark Edinburgh 48–52 2018-08-17 28 March – Parliament of Scotland passes the Rescissory Act 1661 which effectively annuls the legislation of all parliaments since 1633.Keith M. Brown Alastair J. Mann Roland J. Tanner Restoration, Revolution and Union, 1660–1707 The Scottish Parliament: An Historical Introduction Scottish Parliament Project St Andrews https://www.rps.ac.uk/static/historicalintro8.html 2016-08-13 April – Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–62 begins.Levack Brian P. Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion 2019 Routledge 978-0-429-60390-7 153 https://books.google.com/books?id=URGjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT153 en 1663: 28 September – The murder of Alexander MacDonald, 12th of Keppoch and his brother Ranald by their cousins, known as the Keppoch murders.Seven severed heads in a bloody clan war https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/seven-severed-heads-in-a-bloody-clan-war-1-466376 www.scotsman.com 24 December 2019 en 1664: Methven Castle built.Methven Castle GDL00285 24 December 2019 1666: 28 November – Battle of Rullion Green, part of the Pentland Rising, a failed uprising by the Covenanters.Battle of Rullion Green BTL27 24 December 2019 1667: 29 April–1 May – A Dutch flotilla under Admiral van Ghent enters the Firth of Forth and bombards Burntisland as part of the First Anglo-Dutch War.Colin Helling The Dutch Attack on the Forth History Scotland 24 4 Autumn 2024 42–7 Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, is granted Kinlochkilkerran on which he will develop Campbeltown.http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t40.e2717 A Dictionary of British Place-Names A. D. Mills Oxford University Press 2003 Oxford Reference Online 2009-12-12 1669: 7 June: King Charles grants the 'First Indulgence', allowing moderate Presbyterian ministers to be reappointed to their livings.Jenny Uglow Jenny Uglow A Gambling Man London Faber 2010 2009 978-0-571-21734-2 484–6 2 August: John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, is granted the royal appointment of Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland. 19 October: The Parliament of Scotland opens its first new session in six years (although two Conventions of Estates have been held briefly in 1665 and 1667). The session is opened in Edinburgh by Charles in his capacity as King of Scotland and closes in December. Legislation passed includes: Act of Supremacy, recognising the King's authority over the Kirk Militia Act, giving the King power to raise 20,000 men in Scotland. Act against conventicles. Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown.Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the crown https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=print&id=38552&filename=charlesii_trans&type=trans www.rps.ac.uk 26 December 2019 Births 1661: 6 October – William Dunbar, bishop (d. 1746) 1662: 15 February – James Renwick, Covenanter (executed 1688) 5 August – James Anderson, lawyer and historian (d. 1728) 19 November – John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, politician (d. 1752) 18 December – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry politician (d. 1711) 1663: 8 May – Lord James Murray, English-born politician (d. 1719) 1664: 14 September – John Blackadder, soldier (died 1729) 1665: 25 December – Lady Grizel Baillie, songwriter (d. 1746)Lady Grizel Baillie Scottish poet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Grizel-Baillie Encyclopedia Britannica 24 December 2019 en Deaths 1661: 27 May – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, nobleman, executed in Edinburgh for treason (b. 1607)Archibald Campbell, 1st marquess and 8th earl of Argyll Scottish politician [1607–1661] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Archibald-Campbell-1st-Marquess-and-8th-Earl-of-Argyll Encyclopedia Britannica 26 December 2019 en 18 August – Robert Gordon of Straloch, poet, mathematician, antiquary and geographer (b. 1580)Robert Gordon of Straloch: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/g/robertgordonstraloch.html www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk 26 December 2019 1662: 3 September – Beatrix Leslie, midwife, executed for witchcraft (b. c.1577)Ewan Elizabeth L. Innes Sue Reynolds Sian Pipes Rose Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen 2007 Edinburgh University Press 978-0-7486-2660-1 204 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 en 1663: 21 December – Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin, nobleman (b. 1599) References