Waverley
1814 · Work
Walter Scott's novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising launches the historical-fiction genre.
On these timelines: Scotland, Arts and Thoughts, 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 1814
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)