1719_in_Scotland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1719 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

The Battle of Glen Shiel, June 10th 1714

March – a Jacobite invasion force sets out from Cádiz in Spain but is dispersed by storms and only two ships reach Scotland.^[1]
10 May – Capture of Eilean Donan Castle: A British naval force capture Eilean Donan from occupying Spanish troops.
10 June – Battle of Glen Shiel: British Government troops defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces.^[2] Spanish forces had supported the Jacobites, under the command of Major General Wightman, in an effort to strain the British Government's resources.^[3]
1 September – Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart ("Old Pretender" to the Scottish throne) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska at Montefiascone in Italy.
Earliest known Newcomen atmospheric engines in Scotland at Stevenston (north Ayrshire) and at Elphinstone, East Lothian (near Tranent).
Earliest known record of Belhaven Brewery near Dunbar.

5 May – Andrew Meikle, mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1811)
25 December – George Campbell, Enlightenment philosopher, Presbyterian minister, theologian and professor of divinity (died 1796)
William Rose, schoolmaster and classical scholar (died 1786)

^ "Notable Dates in History". The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 297. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Terry, C. Sanford (July 1905). "The Battle of Glenshiel". The Scottish Historical Review. 2: 412–423 – via JSTOR.