Major General James G. Blunt

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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.