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 1650: Oliver Cromwell enters Glasgow while on a campaign against the Scottish Army 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, destroying 130 shops and houses 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 1700–1799 1702: the University of Glasgow has around 400 students 1706: Anti-unionists riot; Glasgow is a major smuggling port 1707: Act of Union 1710: The city's population is estimated to be 13,000; over 200 shops are open; much of the city is liable to flooding 1712: Glasgow owners own 4% of Scottish fleet, 46 vessels 1715: Glasgow Courant newspaper first published 1718: Possible date for first Glasgow vessel to sail to America 1719: Cotton printing has begun 1720: Glasgow's estimated population is 15,000 1721-1735: James Anderson builds "Andersontown" (modern-day Anderston) village 1725: Glasgow occupied by General Wade's army; protests and street