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2 1600-1699. 3 1700-1799. 4 1800-1899. 5 1900-1999. 6 2000-current. 7 Footnotes. 8 References. ... Proclamation of Scottish independence. 1600-1699. Year Name Summary ...
She died in 1699 and was buried on 2 June 1699. Six months later he married by proclamation dated 10 December 1699, Grissel Blair, daughter of Hugh Blair, merchant of Edinburgh. [ 1 ] In 1705 he was member of a syndicate that was assigned farm of the customs and foreign excise of Scotland for three years.
December 8 – King William III of England issues a proclamation of "our most gracious pardon unto all such pirates in the East Indies, viz., all eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, who shall surrender themselves for piracies or robberies committed by them upon sea or land" before April 30, 1699, to Captain Thomas Warren, but specifically ...
January 19 – Parliament limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 "native born" men. [1] The King's Dutch Blue Guards hence cannot serve in the line. By Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.
1699 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1699th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 699th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of ...
The Massachusetts Government Act (14 Geo. 3.c. 45) was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, receiving royal assent on 20 May 1774. The act effectively abrogated the 1691 charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and gave its royally-appointed governor wide-ranging powers.
The Wool Act 1699, for example, forbade any exports of wool from Ireland (and from the American colonies) so as to maximise the English trade. "Free trade or a Speedy Revolution" was a slogan of the Irish Volunteers in the late 18th century.
Long title: An act to prohibit all trade and inter-courses with the colonies of New Hampshire, Massachuset's [] Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three lower counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, during the continuance of the present rebellion within the said colonies respectively; for repealing an act, made ...