Scotland

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Convention of Estates without royal representation meets in Edinburgh

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Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing James II to flee England

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Allan Ramsay, poet, father of Allan Ramsay the painter, is born

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James VII crowned King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

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The Advocates Library opened by its founder, Sir George Mackenzie, the Lord Advocate

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General Tam Dalyell raises a regiment to suppress Covenanters which later became the Royal Scots Greys

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King James VII married Mary of Modena

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Philip van der Straten, sets up a factory in Kelso, thus starting the Border woolen industry

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