1719 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1719 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

Events

• March – a Jacobite invasion force sets out from Cádiz in Spain but is dispersed by storms and only two ships reach Scotland.^[1]
• 10 May – Capture of Eilean Donan Castle: A British naval force capture Eilean Donan from occupying Spanish troops.
• 10 June – Battle of Glen Shiel: British Government troops defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces.^[2] Spanish forces had supported the Jacobites, under the command of Major General Wightman, in an effort to strain the British Government's resources.^[3]
• 1 September – Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart ("Old Pretender" to the Scottish throne) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska at Montefiascone in Italy.
• Earliest known Newcomen atmospheric engines in Scotland at Stevenston (north Ayrshire) and at Elphinstone, East Lothian (near Tranent).
• Earliest known record of Belhaven Brewery near Dunbar.

Births

• 5 May – Andrew Meikle, mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1811)
• 25 December – George Campbell, Enlightenment philosopher, Presbyterian minister, theologian and professor of divinity (died 1796)
• William Rose, schoolmaster and classical scholar (died 1786)

Deaths

• 29 May – Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, judge (born c.1639)
• 24 June – James Sutherland, botanist (born c.1638/9)

The arts

• Allan Ramsay publishes Content and a new volume of Scots Songs.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

Notes and References

1. Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Scots Independent. 2016-02-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm. 26 January 2016. dead.
2. Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 297.
3. Terry. C. Sanford. July 1905. The Battle of Glenshiel. The Scottish Historical Review. 2. 412–423.