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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 ...
The year 1662 in music involved some significant events. Events. July 24 – Jean-Baptiste Lully marries Madeleine, daughter of French composer Michel Lambert.
1662 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1662nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 662nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1662, the ...
His brother James Drummond (1586–1611), who had been created Earl of Perth died of a "hectic sickness" at Seton Palace, and John Drummond was made (by special remainder) Earl of Perth on 8 December 1611. [3] He was involved in conflict with the Clan MacGregor at Duncrub in 1611.
James Anderson (5 August 1662 – 3 April 1728), Scottish antiquary and historian, was born at Edinburgh. His father was Patrick Anderson of Walston , a church minister, who was for some time imprisoned on the Bass Rock on the Firth of Forth in Haddingtonshire .
Port-Royal Logic, or Logique de Port-Royal, is the common name of La logique, ou l'art de penser, an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, two prominent members of the Jansenist movement, centered on Port-Royal. Blaise Pascal likely contributed considerable portions of the text.
James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005) Margaret Huber, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) William M. Kelso, Jamestown, The Buried Truth (University of Virginia Press, 2006) David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
Sir Aston Cockayne, Poems, second edition of Small Poems of Divers Sorts 1658 [2]; John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor, Presented on New-Years-Day [2]; Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, a "doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry (1903), that "attained immediately a phenomenal ...