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, The Forty-Five
More from Scotland
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
Around 1750
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- American Revolution (1775)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
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- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)