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Southern Scotland occupied by the English Commonwealth's New Model Army following Scottish defeats at the Battle of Dunbar 1650 and the Battle of Hamilton during the Third English Civil War: 1651: 3 September: Battle of Worcester was a victory for New Model Army over the last major Royalist field army. Most of the Royalist officers and men who ...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the years 1700 to 1707. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7). For other years, see list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland.
Approximate date about which the independent pro-Union group later known as the Squadrone Volante forms around John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale. Possible approximate date at which the last wolf in Scotland is shot, north of Brora in Sutherland. [6] Scottish American settler Isaac Magoon establishes the town of Scotland, Connecticut. [7]
It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7). For other years, see list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. For the period after 1707, see list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar is 9 February 1649, the date by which his contemporaries in some parts of continental Europe would have recorded his execution. The O.S./N.S. designation is particularly relevant for dates which fall between the start of the "historical year" (1 January) and the legal start date, where different.
This only began to change in the 1970s, partly due to the discovery and development of North Sea oil and gas and partly as Scotland moved towards a more service-based economy, with the services sector contributing 75% to the overall Scottish economy in 2020. [300] This period saw the emergence of the Scottish National Party and movements for ...
Sir William Innes, current-day mascot of the RBC Heritage, was the subject of the first published golf print in 1790. The image was adapted from an earlier painting by English portrait artist ...
7 January – Robert Anderson, literary editor (died 1803) 18 February – David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825 in England) 27 May – George Hill, Church of Scotland minister and academic (died 1819)