James Boswell
1740–1795 · Person
Scottish lawyer, rake, diarist and champion of Corsica, whose Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated biography in English.
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- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Reign of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Reign of Robert the Bruce (1306)
Around 1740
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)