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Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots

Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots

Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots

Events Before

  1. John Bunyan's Christian novel "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published in London by Nathaniel Ponder

    John Bunyan's Christian novel "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published in London by Nathaniel Ponder

  2. Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Padua, the first woman to re

    Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Padua, the first woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD

  3. Hamburg State Opera opens in Hamburg, inaugurated with Johann Theile's "Adam und Eva"

    Hamburg State Opera opens in Hamburg, inaugurated with Johann Theile's "Adam und Eva"

  4. Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London

    Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London

  5. French troops conquer Ypres

    Ypres is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though the Dutch name Ieper is the official one, the city's French name Ypres is most commonly used in English.

Events After

  1. Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)

    C/1680 V1, also called the Great Comet of 1680, Kirch's Comet, and Newton's Comet, was the first comet discovered by telescope.

  2. Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas

    Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas

  3. The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts

    The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts

  4. Tewa medicine man Popé leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican province, killing 400 an

    Tewa medicine man Popé leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000

  5. Pueblo Indians take possession of Santa Fe in the New Mexican Province from the Spanish

    Pueblo Indians take possession of Santa Fe in the New Mexican Province from the Spanish

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