1600-1699
1600: Population estimates for the city vary between 5000 and 7500
1604: 361 craftsmen work in fourteen trades, including two surgeons and 213 merchants
1605: The Trades House and Merchants House combine to form the first town council
1610: The General Assembly approves the restoration of diocesan episcopacy in Scotland
1611: Glasgow becomes a royal burgh, with a population of about 7600
1615: The Jesuit John Ogilvy is hanged for saying Mass
1621: Glasgow pays 3%-10% of Scottish customs duties
1625: The first quay is built at Broomielaw
1626: The Tolbooth is constructed
1636: There are 120 students at the university
1638: Covenanters at the General Assembly plan to abolish bishops
1639: Glasgow the 3rd richest burgh in Scotland, one-fifth as rich as Edinburgh; Hutcheson's Hospital is founded
1641: Hutchesons' Grammar School is founded for orphan boys; 50 buildings erected in Trongate
1645: Montrose enters city, celebrates victories
1645-1646: Plague hits city
1649: Glasgow displaces Perth as Scotland's 4th trading centre; pays 6.5% of customs duties
1652: Major fire makes about a thousand families homeless; an early fire engine from Edinburgh helps put out the blaze
1655: Glasgow trades in coal, hoops, meal, oats, butter, herring, salt, paper, prunes, timber, and hides: goat, kid, and deerskins
1656: Glasgow is described as a "flourishing city", with "strong stone walls"
1659-1665: Bridgegate merchants' house is rebuilt
1660: A coal pit is reported in the Gorbals
1661: Several pits reported
1662: A post office opens
1663: Alexander Burnet is appointed archbishop
1668: Land is purchased for a new harbour - later Port Glasgow
1669: Burnet resigns the archbishopric, objects to Act of Supremacy
1670: Glasgow displaces Aberdeen and Dundee to become Scotland's second trade city
1673: Colonel Walter Whiteford opens city's first coffee house
1675: Magistrates take action against unauthorised prayer meetings
1677: Another major fire hits the city
1678: First stagecoaches run to Edinburgh
1680: The city's population is perhaps around 12,000, with 450 traders, 100 trading overseas
1688: Broomielaw Quay is reconstructed following dredging of the River Clyde
1690 Glasgow is re-chartered as a royal burgh; the city has an early Bank of Scotland branch
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