Person report

★27 Apr 1650
Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated an invading Royalist army at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.

★13 Aug 1650
General George Monck founded "Monck's Regiment of Foot", the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, the oldest regiment in the British Regular Army in continuous active service.

★21 Sep 1675
Led by Antonio de Vea, a Spanish naval expedition departed El Callao, Peru, for the fjords and channels of Patagonia to find whether rival colonial powers were in the region.

★01 Jun 1676
The Swedish warship Kronan, one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland with a loss of around 800 men.

★25 Nov 1678
Trunajaya rebellion: After a series of difficult marches, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri in eastern Java.

★09 Dec 1688
In the only substantial military action in England during the Glorious Revolution, forces loyal to William of Orange were decisively victorious in the Battle of Reading.

★21 Aug 1689
Jacobite risings: Jacobites supporting James VII of Scotland clashed with a regiment of Covenanters supporting William of Orange, in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

★07 Jun 1692
An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.

★10 Jun 1692
Bridget Bishop became the first person executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.

★18 May 1695
An earthquake measuring Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

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