1700 in Scotland information

Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – William II Secretary of State – James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John...

1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the...

motion was voted down in the House of Commons in 1700, the Parliament of Scotland again rejected union in 1702. The failure of the Darien Scheme bankrupted...

(smallpox) probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48 1700 in Scotland J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and...

well in economic management and the country's cultural life. The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the United States from 1700 to 2013. In 1700...

was rapid after 1700, as Scottish ports, especially those on the Clyde, began to import tobacco from the American colonies. Scottish industries, especially...

of Scotland The Darien Adventure The Darien Chest Pathfinder Pack on The Darien Scheme Account, written in 1700, by a colonist "Pivotal chapter in Scottish...

April 1729), of Mamore, was a Scottish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1700 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons between...

English in the West Indies, the colonists abandoned their project in 1700. Only 1,000 survived and only one ship managed to return to Scotland. Scotland was...

War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern...

population in 1700. Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in the...

"Conversion to Christianity" in Lynch (2001). Pope, Robert (ed.), Religion and National Identity: Wales and Scotland, c.1700–2000 (2001) Taylor, Simon,...

Events from the year 1700 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XIV English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: William III Governor General of New France: Louis-Hector...

The year 1700 in architecture involved some significant events. March 27 – François de Rohan, prince de Soubise, buys the Hôtel de Clisson, which is subsequently...

Lowndes, astronomer (born 1692) 27 August – James Thomson, poet (born 1700 in Scotland) 6 September – Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London and scholar (born 1669)...

III of England (II of Scotland) and Mary II of England (and Scotland) William and Mary style, a furniture design common from 1700 to 1725 named for the...

Ferguson, Lord Pitfour (1700–1777), Scottish advocate, 2nd Laird James Ferguson (Scottish politician) (1735-1820), Scottish advocate and politician,...

company created by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland in 1695. The Act granted the Company a monopoly of Scottish trade to India, Africa and the Americas,...

varieties spoken in parts of Scotland developed into modern Scots. Speakers of Northumbrian Old English settled in south-eastern Scotland in the 7th century...

Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700) also known as James Macpherson was a Scottish outlaw, famed for his poetic work commonly called "Macpherson's Lament" said...

The languages of Scotland belong predominantly to the Germanic and Celtic language families. The main language now spoken in Scotland is English, while...

George Martine (historian) (1635–1712), Scottish historian George Martine (physician) (1700–1741), Scottish physician This disambiguation page lists...

Wedderburn, Lord Gosford (1616?–1679), Scottish judge Peter Wedderburn, Lord Chesterhall (c. 1700–1756), Scottish lawyer This disambiguation page lists...