Timeline June 1679

Events in June 1679 3

• 1679 Battle of Drumclog Covenanters defeat government dragoons in Scotland On 1 June 1679, a force of armed Covenanters defeated government troops under John Graham of Claverhouse near Drumclog in Lanarkshire. The victory emboldened the Covenanter uprising against royal religious policy in Scotland. It was followed three weeks later by a decisive government victory at Bothwell Bridge.
• 1679 Battle of Bothwell Bridge Royal forces crush the Covenanter rebellion On 22 June 1679, troops commanded by the Duke of Monmouth routed a larger but poorly organized Covenanter force at Bothwell Bridge near Glasgow. The defeat ended the brief Covenanter uprising and led to mass arrests, with many prisoners later deported. The episode became a lasting symbol of Scottish religious resistance, later dramatized in Walter Scott's fiction.
• 1679 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye signed France and Brandenburg end their conflict Signed on 29 June 1679 under French pressure, the treaty forced Brandenburg to return most of the Swedish Pomeranian territory it had conquered during the Scanian War. Louis XIV used the settlement to protect his ally Sweden despite Brandenburg's battlefield successes. The treaty was widely resented in Brandenburg as a diplomatic defeat following a military victory.