13 November – Battle of Sheriffmuir is fought between Jacobites and the Duke of Argyll's army. Although the action is inconclusive, Argyll halts the Jacobite advance.
14 November – Battle of Preston. Government forces defeat a Jacobite incursion at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action, the last battle fought on English soil.[1][2]
Colen Campbell begins publication of his pattern book Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.
Elizabeth Elstob publishes the first grammar of Old English, The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, first given in English; with an apology for the study of northern antiquities.
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