1650s in Scotland

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Events from the 1650s in the Kingdom of Scotland.

• Monarch – Charles II (until his disposition in 1651)

• Commonwealth of England from 1651 until the Restoration in 1660 which reinstates Charles II.

• 1650:

  • 21 May – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose executed in Edinburgh after his defeat at the Battle of Carbisdale.
  • 29 June – "the Lord General Cromwell went out of London towards the North: and the news of him marching Northward much startled the Scots". Oliver Cromwell leads the New Model Army to Edinburgh.
  • 3 September – Battle of Dunbar takes place between Cromwell's Army and the Scottish Covenanters. Cromwell's army wins and the battle results in southern Scotland surrendering to England; it is administered from Dalkeith.

• 1651:

  • 1 January – Charles II crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace.
  • 20 July – Battle of Inverkeithing: The English Parliamentarian New Model Army, under Major-General John Lambert, defeats a Scottish Covenanter army acting on behalf of Charles II, led by Sir John Brown of Fordell.
  • 1 September – Siege of Dundee ends with the English Parliamentarian army, under General Monck, decisively defeating Covenanters in the last battle of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland.
  • 3 September – Battle of Worcester takes place after Charles II has raised an army (largely from Scotland) and invaded England. It results in his defeat by Cromwell and the king escaping abroad.

• 1652: 17 June – A large fire breaks out in Glasgow, which destroys around a third of the city and leaves approximately 1,000 families homeless.

• 1653: 16 December – Cromwell is made Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

• 1654:

  • 12 April – Cromwell creates a union between England and Scotland, with Scottish representation in the Parliament of England.
  • 5 May – Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardons the people of Scotland for any crimes they may have committed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, is proclaimed in Edinburgh.

• 1658: 3 September – Cromwell dies and the title of Lord Protector passes to his son, Richard Cromwell.

• 1659:

  • 25 May – Richard Cromwell forced to resign as Lord Protector.
  • Heriot's Hospital opens in Edinburgh.

• 1655 – History of the Church and State of Scotland by John Spottiswoode.

• 1650:

  • Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, writer and Principal Clerk of Session (d. 1719)
  • George Brown, inventor and arithmetician (d. 1730)
  • Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, Covenanter (d. 1693)

• 1654: 23 November – George Watson, accountant (d. 1733)

• 1658: 11 April – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, nobleman (d. 1712)

• 1659

  • 1 January – Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss, noble (d. 1705)
  • 3 June – David Gregory, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1708 in England)
  • 13 September – Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, Scottish and Irish peer (d. 1691)

• 1650:

  • 21 May – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (b. 1612)
  • 29 October – David Calderwood, divine and historian (b. 1575)

• 1654: Alexander Ross, writer (b. c.1590)