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Scottish Highlands

historic region of Scotland

20 dated entries naming Scottish Highlands, drawn from 16 separate years between 1306 CE and 1995 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Highland Line, Highland line, Highlands of Scotland in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

  • 1306August 11 – Battle of Dalrigh: Robert the Bruce is defeated by rival Scottish forces (some 1,000 men) led by John the Lame of Argyll chieftain and uncle of John Comyn the Red of the Clan MacDougall at Dalrigh (known as "King's Field"). ("After the defeat which Robert Bruce experienced in Perthshire from Edward I, soon after his coronation at Scone, he was endeavoring to make his way toward the West Highlands with a few followers, when, on the 11th of August 1306, he was encountered at a place, since called Dalrigh (the King's field) near Tyndrum, on the border of Argyllshire, by that powerful chief, or rather potentate, Allaster or Alexander MacDougall of Argyll...") During the battle, Bruce himself narrowly escapes capture and takes with the remnants refuge in the mountains of Atholl (Scottish Highlands).source

16th century

  • 159723 July – Earthquake in the Highlands.source

17th century

  • 1609The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the Scottish Highlands.source
  • 1694October 19 – A major windstorm begins and continues for several days, spreading the Culbin Sands over a large area of farmland in the Scottish Highlands in the County of Moray and burying the now-abandoned village of Culbin.source

18th century

  • 1716November 1 – Two new laws go into effect in the Highlands of Scotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobites who supported the restoration of the House of Stuart. The Disarming Act requires government authorisation to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to the Treason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed.source
  • 17161 November – Disarming Act, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, comes into effect, intended to prevent clansmen in the Highlands from having weapons.source
  • 171913 April – A Jacobite force under George Keith reaches Loch Alsh in the Scottish Highlands and disembarks, launching the Jacobite rising of 1719source
  • 1725May 12 – The Black Watch is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.source
  • 172512 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.source
  • 173610 January – emigrants from the Scottish Highlands arrive in North America on the Prince of Wales to establish the defensive town of Darien, Georgia, originally called New Inverness, among them being Lachlan McGillivray, Lachlan McIntosh and other members of the Clan Mackintosh.source
  • 175217 March – the Parliament of Great Britain passes an act to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.source
  • 175217 March – Parliament passes a bill to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.source
  • 1762Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.source
  • 1762Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Scottish Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.source
  • 1784"Wash Act" reduces excise duty on Scotch whisky and provides a definition of the Highland Line.source
  • 1792"Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.source

19th century

  • 1811Highland Clearances – the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford begin mass expulsion of crofting tenants from their Highland estates to make way for sheep farming.source
  • 1833Glengoyne distillery is established as the Burnfoot distillery by George Connell on the Highland line near Dumgoyne.source

20th century

  • 1907The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discoveredsource
  • 1995December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 °C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982.source

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