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), British Empire
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 1698
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)