Timeline Thursday 22 June 1679

Events on Thursday 22 June 1679 1

• 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.