Highland Clearances
1750–1860 · Event
Eviction of tenant farmers in the Scottish Highlands by their landlords, replacing them with sheep grazing and contributing to large-scale emigration to North America and Australia.
On these timelines: Scotland, Master, United Kingdom (combined), Industrial Revolution
More from Scotland
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
- William Wallace (1270)
- Lockerbie bombing (1988)
Around 1750
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)