Scotland's Pages - Scotland's Written History

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1707
Union of the Parliaments between Scotland and England.

1707
Order to lay up the Honours of Scotland.

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1702 Accession of Queen Anne
1704 Battle of Blenheim won by Marlborough in war against France and Spain.

1708
Failed Jacobite invasion attempt.

1715
Jacobite Rising.

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1715 Accession of George I of Hanover to British throne.

1719
Spanish invasion force supports Jacobites in Scotland: Battle of Glenshiel.

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1720 Scotsman John Law's financial schemes bankrupt France.

1725
Malt Tax riots in Scotland.

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1725 Death of Peter the Great in Russia.

1728
Royal Bank invents first overdraft facility

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1727 Accession of George II of England.

1736
Porteous Riots in Edinburgh.

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1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed.

1739
David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature'.

1745
Initial success of Jacobite rebellion (Prestonpans).

1746
Battle of Culloden

1746
Escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

1746
Jacobite memoir.

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1745 'God Save the King' sung in London with famous 'Rebellious Scots' verse.

1747-1775
'The Lyon in Mourning'.

1747
Tartan wearing banned.