Darien scheme
1698–1700 · Event
Scotland's catastrophic attempt to plant a colony on the Isthmus of Panama; its failure pushed Scotland toward union.
On these timelines: Scotland, Latin America, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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 1698
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Frederick the Great (1712)