Irish Convention (1660) Charles II in January 1661 and he summoned his parliament in Ireland in May 1661. Irish Convention (1660) The Irish Convention sat 7 February, 2 March and 27 May 1660, and again January 1661. It sought to restore the monarchy, episcopacy and also the right for the King's Irish Parliament to tax and legislate for itself, rejecting claims of legislative supremacy by the King's English Parliament. Sir Charles Coote was a central figure in the Convention. In May 1660 the Convention asked the King of Ireland to "call a parliament consisting of Protestant peers and commons. It was also requested
1660 Wood who had discovered 12 asteroids himself between 1911 and 1928. He had the prime responsibility for the famous "Franklin-Adams Star Camera" (Franklin-Adams photographic refractor) since its acquisition in 1909 "(also see 1925 Franklin-Adams)". The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center before November 1977 (). 1660 Wood 1660 Wood, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was named after British–South African astronomer Harry Edwin Wood. "Wood" was discovered on 7 April 1953, by South African astronomer Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg Observatory in