1719 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1719 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- March – a Jacobite invasion force sets out from Cádiz in Spain but is dispersed by storms and only two ships reach Scotland.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|work=The Scots Independent|access-date=2016-02-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|archive-date=26 January 2016|url-status=dead}}
- 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.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/297 297]}} Spanish forces had supported the Jacobites, under the command of Major General Wightman, in an effort to strain the British Government's resources.{{Cite journal|last=Terry|first=C. Sanford|date=July 1905|title=The Battle of Glenshiel|journal=The Scottish Historical Review|volume=2|pages=412–423}}
- 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
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