1719 in Scotland

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Timeline of Scottish history
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Events from the year 1719 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateSir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandRobert Dundas

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord North Berwick
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Ilay
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Grange

Events[]

  • 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]
  • 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.

Births[]

  • 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)

Deaths[]

  • 29 May – Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, judge (born c.1639)
  • 24 June – James Sutherland, botanist (born c.1638/9)

The arts[]

  • Allan Ramsay publishes Content and a new volume of Scots Songs.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  2. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 297. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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