22 July – Battle of Airds Moss in Ayrshire: Armed Covenanters are defeated in a skirmish; their leaders Richard and Michael Cameron are killed[1] and David Hackston taken prisoner and on 30 July executed in Edinburgh for murder.[3]
Innerpeffray Library, the oldest known (and surviving) public (lending) library in Scotland, is established.[4]
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^Showalter, Dennis E. (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E. Springer. p. 41. ISBN 9780313335372.
^Muir, Alison G. (2004). "Hackston, David, of Rathillet (d. 1680)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11843. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Brooks, Libby (2019-10-25). "Scotland's historic first lending library". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
^Perry, Richard (1978). Wildlife in Britain and Ireland. London: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-0-85664-306-4.