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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)
The Scottish National Party wins 4.7% of the popular vote in the UK General Election, securing 56 out of the 59 seats in Scotland out of 650 seats in total across the UK. 2022: 8 September: The longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, dies at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire. 2023: 15 February
Scotland's transformation into a rich leader of modern industry came suddenly and unexpectedly. [142] 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. [205] The economy, long based on agriculture, [142] began to industrialise after 1790. At first the leading ...
The results are crucial to an understanding of Scotland on the eve of both the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. In 1790, Sir John sent structured questionnaires to over 900 parish ministers, covering the whole country. This contained 160 questions in 4 sections, namely Geography and topography; Population
1790s disestablishments in Scotland (3 C) 1790s establishments in Scotland (10 C, 2 P) 0–9. ... 1790 in Scotland; 1791 in Scotland; 1792 in Scotland; 1793 in Scotland;
The Scottish Test Act was passed in 1681 but rescinded in 1690. Later attempts to exclude Scotland from the English Test Acts were rejected by the Parliament of Scotland. In 1707, anyone bearing office in any university, college or school in Scotland was to profess and subscribe to the Confession of Faith. All persons were to be free of any ...
Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the combined United Kingdom in the late 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.
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