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The first documented Scottish settlement in the Americas was of Nova Scotia in 1629. On 29 September 1621, the charter for the foundation of a colony was granted by James VI of Scotland to Sir William Alexander. [1] Between 1622 and 1628, Sir William launched four attempts to send colonists to Nova Scotia; all failed for various reasons.
Births. 12 March – William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician in Canada (died 1861 in Canada) 25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the (uncompleted) Scott Monument (died 1844) 19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy (died 1860 in England) 6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker (died 1852 in ...
Ormiston. Ormiston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, near Tranent, Humbie, Pencaitland and Cranston, located on the north bank of the River Tyne at an elevation of about 276 feet (84 m). The village was the first planned village in Scotland, founded in 1735 by John Cockburn (1685–1758), one of the initiators of the Agricultural Revolution.
By the start of the 16th century, Glasgow had become an important religious and academic city and by the 17th century the university had moved from the cathedral precincts to its own building in the High Street. After 1870 the university attained international stature. The university's teaching quality was assessed in 2009 to be among the top ...
The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. [2] In 1804, 63 maps drawn by Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis of Philadelphia (publisher of William Clark's manuscript map of the Northwest) [3] were published in the New and elegant General Atlas Comprising all Discoveries to the Present Time.
v. t. e. Scotland in the Middle Ages concerns the history of Scotland from the departure of the Romans to the adoption of major aspects of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. From the fifth century northern Britain was divided into a series of kingdoms. Of these the four most important to emerge were the Picts, the Gaels of Dál ...
History of Scotland. The High Middle Ages of Scotland encompass Scotland in the era between the death of Domnall II in 900 AD and the death of King Alexander III in 1286, which was an indirect cause of the Wars of Scottish Independence. At the close of the ninth century, various competing kingdoms occupied the territory of modern Scotland.
From 1787 to 1789 Ainslie worked on a new nine sheet map of Scotland publishing it in 1789. [7] The map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland and for the first time showed the Great Glen as a straight line and Skye , Mull , and Islay shown with more accuracy than had previously been seen.
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