Scottish Enlightenment
1730–1800 · Event
Edinburgh and Glasgow's age of genius — Hume, Smith, Hutton, Ferguson — a small country thinking the modern world into being.
On these timelines: Scotland, The Enlightenment, United Kingdom (combined), Arts and Thoughts, Master
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- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
- William Wallace (1270)
Around 1730
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- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)