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1752
'Appin Murder', later immortalised by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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1752 Gregorian (present-day) calendar adopted by Great Britain.

1754
St Andrews Society of Golfers founded.

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1755 Earthquake in Lisbon: 30,000 people killed'.
1756 Black Hole of Calcutta.

1759
Robert Burns born in Alloway.

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1759 Death of General Wolfe at Battle of Quebec.

1763
James Boswell and Samuel Johnson meet.

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1764 Invention of the Spinning Jenny.

1767
James Craig's plan for New Town of Edinburgh accepted.

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1768 Gurkhas conquer Nepal.

1771
Sir Walter Scott born.

1771
'Encyclopaedia Britannica'.

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1769 Napoleon Bonaparte born.

1773
'The Hector' sails to Nova Scotia in first major Highland emigration to Canada.

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1773 The Boston Tea Party.

1776
Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'.

1776
David Hume dies.

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1776 American Declaration of Independence.

1778
Edinburgh bookbinding.

1780
'Book of Neo-classical Designs'.

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1781 Surrender of British forces to the Americans at Yorktown.

1782
Tartan wearing legalised again after a 35-year ban.

1783
'Glasgow Herald' first published.

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1783 Peace of Versailles: Britain formally recognises the USA.

1784
First balloon flight in Scotland by James Tytler.

1786
'The Kilmarnock Burns'.

1786
Boswell and Johnson in Scotland.

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1786 Mozart's 'Marriage of Figaro' staged.

1788
Death of Charles Edward Stewart in Rome.

1788
Deacon Brodie executed for theft.

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1787 French Revolution begins: storming of the Bastille.

1791-1793
Burns's Glenriddell Manuscript.

1791-1799
First Statistical Account of Scotland.

1793
Thomas Muir arrested for sedition.

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1793 Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France.

1799
Robert Owen, socialist and philanthropist, buys New Lanark Mills for his company.

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1796 Smallpox vaccination developed by Jenner.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte made First Consul of France.