Walter Scott's financial ruin
1826 · Event
The collapse of his printers Ballantyne and publisher Constable leaves Scott liable for some £120,000; refusing bankruptcy, he spends his last six years writing to pay off the debt.
On these timelines: Scotland, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
Around 1826
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)