Scotland

countries: Scotland

Total results: 406

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James Watt, Scottish steam engine inventor, born

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John Law, financier and founder of New Orleans, died aged about 57.

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Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator

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Neil Gow, first of a famous family of Fiddle players and composers, born

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Malt Riots, Glasgow

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Last claimant to the Stuart throne, Henry I of Scotland (Henry IX of England), born

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James Cotter is executed for high treason in supporting the Jacobite cause

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Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart (the Old Pretender) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding, escaped and had married James by proxy earlier in, 1719.

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John Gore, Baron Annal, lawyer, politician & Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, is born

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