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On 22nd June 1679, the Battle of Bothwell Bridge was fought

The Battle of Bothwell Bridge, or Bothwell Brig' was fought between government troops and militant Presbyterian Covenanters, and signalled the end of their brief rebellion.The Battle of Bothwell Bridge is significant as it brings to an end the 1679 Covenanter rebellion. This was the largest of the Covenanter uprisings of the 17th century and features many figures who were prominent in Scottish political and military history in the latter part of the century. It is also final major battle between the Covenanters and their Government opponents.

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The Sanquhar Declaration

The Sanquhar Declaration was a speech read 22nd June 1680 by Michael Cameron in the presence of his brother, the Covenanter leader Richard Cameron, accompanied by twenty armed men in the public square of Sanquhar, Scotland, in 1680, disavowing allegiance to Charles II and the government of Scotland, in the name of "true Protestant and Presbyterian interest", opposition to government interference in religious affairs.

Birth of John Henry Douglas MPP

On this day in 1851, John Henry Douglas MPP was born. He was a farmer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He represented Northumberland East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1902 as a Liberal. The image, The Fathers of Confederation by Frederick S. Challener, is illustrative

Rev. Thomas Douglas lived in dangerous times

Thomas Douglas of Stanypath, minister of Balmerino in 1578, Was assaulted coming from his church on Sunday 10th May 1584, to the loss of blood, by John Forrest, brother to the laird of that Ilk; and was nearly assassinated on 22nd June 1603 in Edinburgh by Walter Grahane, who struck him 'twa straikis upone the heid begind the right lug' to the effusion of blood in great quantity. His assailant was sentenced to be 'securit fra the Castel hill to the Nether Bow, and his richt hand to be strcken af at the Nether Bow' and to be banished.

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217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
910 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the centre of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
American frigate USS Chesapeake.
1812 – France declares war on Russia, starting Napoleon's invasion.
1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a thirty kilometres (19 mi) journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1898 – Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles east of Santiago de Cuba.
1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1948 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.[12]
1948 – King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.

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