Scotland's Pages - Scotland's Written History

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• 1650-1700
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• 1850-1900
• 1900-1950
• 1950-2000

1650
Scots defeated by Cromwell at Dunbar.

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1653 Union of Scotland and England under Cromwell.

1659
Psalms of David in Gaelic.

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1660 Restoration of Charles II.

1662
Episcopacy re-established in Scotland.

1683
First Scottish gardening book .

1684-1685
'The Killing Times': Cameronians (radical Covenanters) shot in the fields.

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1685 Death of Charles II: accession of his Catholic brother, James II and VII.

1688
Anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh.

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1688 'Glorious Revolution': accession of William of Orange.
1633-1637 Tulip-mania in the Netherlands.

1689
Battle of Killiecrankie: first Jacobite Rising.

1690
Battle of the Boyne in Ireland: James II and VII defeated.

1692
Massacre of Glencoe.

1692
Order for the Massacre of Glencoe.

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1694 Bank of England established.

1699
Failure of Darien Scheme – Scottish attempt to found a colony overseas.

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1698 Peter the Great visits England and 'damnifies' John Evelyn's garden.

1700
Darien and the Union.