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The Locust Plague of 1874, or the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, occurred in the summer of 1874 when hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts invaded the Great Plains in the United States and Canada. The locusts swarmed over an estimated 2,000,000 square miles (5,200,000 km 2 ) and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage.
Pages in category "1874 in Scotland" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
A fictionalized description of the devastation created by Rocky Mountain locusts in the 1870s can be found in the 1937 novel On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her description was based on actual incidents in western Minnesota during the summers of 1874 and 1875 as the locusts destroyed her family's wheat crop. [28]
7 August – Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1874 abolishes patronage in the appointment of ministers to the Church of Scotland. Bernera Riot: Islanders of Great Bernera successfully resist Clearances. Coulburn Lobnitz & Company establish the shipbuilding business that will become known as Lobnitz in Renfrew.
The atlas is notable for being the first of its kind, but also for its quality. According to historian and cartobibliographer Jeffrey C. Stone, "Blaeu's portrayal of the Scottish landscape far exceeded, in both accuracy and content, anything previously published, or indeed anything to follow for more than a hundred years"; Stone argues that the century following its publication saw nothing of ...
1874: Patronage abolished in the Church of Scotland. 1878: Collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank. 1879: William Ewart Gladstone conducts the Midlothian campaign as part of a political comeback. The Tay Bridge disaster. 1885: Creation of the Scottish Office and the post of Secretary for Scotland, later Secretary of State for Scotland. 1890
Desert locust: Locust Plague of 1874: 1874 United States: Rocky Mountain locust: Albert's swarm: 1875 United States: 3.5 – 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locust: 1915 Ottoman Syria locust infestation: 1915 Israel, Lebanon, and Syria: 2003–2005 Africa locust infestation: 2003–05 West Africa 2013 Madagascar locust infestation: 2013 Madagascar ...
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.