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3 March – Robert Story, Church of Scotland minister and writer (died 1859) 25 October – Robert Stirling, Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the Stirling engine (died 1878) 29 October – David Napier, marine engineer (died 1869 in London) James Clow, Presbyterian minister and settler in Melbourne (died 1861 in Australia)
Scotland's transformation into a rich leader of modern industry came suddenly and unexpectedly. [140] The population grew steadily in the 19th century, from 1,608,000 in the census of 1801 to 2,889,000 in 1851 and 4,472,000 in 1901. [203] The economy, long based on agriculture, [140] began to industrialise after 1790. At first the leading ...
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are a series of documentary publications, related in subject matter though published at different times, covering life in Scotland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Old (or First) Statistical Account of Scotland was published between 1791 and 1799 by Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster.
Pages in category "1790s in Scotland" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... 0–9. 1765 in Scotland; 1766 in Scotland; 1790 in Scotland ...
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Kirkman Finlay was born in the Gallowgate, the second son of well known Glasgow merchant and textile manufacturer James Finlay (1727–1790). Upon his father's death in 1790 he became head of James Finlay & Co, manufacturers and East India merchants.
The 1790s (pronounced "seventeen-nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1790, and ended on December 31, 1799. Considered as some of the Industrial Revolution 's earlier days, the 1790s called for the start of an anti-imperialist world , as new democracies such as the French First Republic and the United States began flourishing at ...
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