1719
in
Scotland
Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1719 in: Great Britain Wales Elsewhere

Events from the year 1719 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

The Battle of Glen Shiel, June 10th 1714

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

The arts

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

See also

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.
  3. Terry, C. Sanford (July 1905). "The Battle of Glenshiel". The Scottish Historical Review. 2: 412–423 via JSTOR.
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