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The Jacobite rising of 1745 [a] was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart.It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.
1689 map of Scotland. The Seven Ill Years, also known as the Seven Lean Years (Scottish Gaelic: seachd bliadhna gorta), is the term used for a period of widespread and prolonged famine in Scotland during the 1690s, named after the biblical famine in Egypt predicted by Joseph in the Book of Genesis. [1]
The potato famine followed shortly after the collapse of the kelp industry. Faced with a severe famine, the government made clear to any reluctant landlords that they had the primary responsibility of feeding their destitute tenants, whether through employment in public works or estate improvement, or simply by the provision of famine relief.
Highland Potato Famine: Scotland: 150,000 estimated 1845–1852: Great Famine killed more than 1,000,000 out of over 8.5 million people inhabiting Ireland. Between 1.5–2 million people were forced to emigrate [91] Ireland: 600,000 to over 1,500,000 that emigrated 1846: Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "Maria da Fonte" in the north of ...
List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1745 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere: Events from the year 1745 in Scotland. Incumbents
The Highland Potato Famine (Scottish Gaelic: Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta) was a period of 19th-century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands (Gàidhealtachd) saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated by potato blight.
The Union of the Parliaments: the Acts of Union are passed by both the Scottish and English parliaments. 1715: Jacobite rising of 1715. 1745: Jacobite rising of 1745. 1746: The Battle of Culloden ends the last Jacobite rising. 1748: David Hume publishes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1754: Joseph Black discovers "fixed air" (carbon ...
Lordship to Patronage: Scotland, 1603-1745 (New History of Scotland) (1990 ed.). Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748602339. Oates, Joanthan, ed. (2006). The Memoir of Walter Shairp; the Story of the Liverpool Regiment during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in Volume CXLII;. The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. ISBN 978-0-902593-73-2.