• Events from the year 1753 in Scotland. Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles,...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1753. 1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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    The Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 was an Act of Parliament (26 Geo. 2. c. 26) which allowed Jews resident in Britain to become naturalised by application...
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  • figure in Ontario John Grieve (police officer) (born 1946), British retired police officer and university professor John Grieve (physician) (1753-1805)...
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    The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, also called the Marriage Act 1753, long title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly...
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  • Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder (category 1753 deaths)
    (1685–1753) was a Scottish lawyer, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1737. In 1728 he reintroduced into Scottish juries...
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    West View of the City of Edinburgh (category 1753 in Scotland)
    by the landscapist, Paul Sandby. This engraving on paper was published in 1753 and has an alternate name, Vue Occidentale de la Ville d'Edinbourg Capitale...
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    Raid on Rannoch (category 1753 in Scotland)
    place in 1753 in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Lieutenant Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar who was a commissioned officer in the...
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  • (engraver) (1726–1809), Scottish co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica Andrew Bell (educationalist) (1753–1832), Scottish pioneer of mutual instruction...
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  • Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory (physician) (1753–1821), Scottish physician James Gregory (mineralogist) (1832–1899), Scottish mineralogist...
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  • The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events. Ruđer Bošković's De lunae atmosphaera demonstrates the lack of atmosphere on...
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  • Scottish peer Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington (1650–1685), Scottish nobleman Charles Hamilton, 8th Earl of Haddington (1753–1828), Scottish nobleman...
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    the year 1753. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. See also...
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    The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as...
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  • (1884–1964), Scottish writer and simple living advocate Dugald Stewart (1753–1828), Scottish philosopher Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859–1948), Scottish watercolour...
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    George Gleig (category 1753 births)
    FSA LLD (12 May 1753 – 9 March 1840) was a Scottish minister who transferred to the Episcopalian faith and became Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church...
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  • Events from the year 2024 in Scotland. First Minister Humza Yousaf (until 7 May 2024 ) John Swinney (starting 8 May 2024) Secretary of State: Alister...
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  • Lord Boyd (afterwards 15th Earl of Erroll) 1752–1753: George Drummond (Lord Provost of Edinburgh) 1753–1754: Charles Hamilton Gordon 1754–1755: James Forbes...
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  • William Robertson, Lord Robertson (1753–1853), Scottish lawyer William Russell Robertson (1853–1930), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British...
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    Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland...
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  • Cochrane (surname) (category Surnames of Scottish origin)
    from New York, nephew of Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick Basil Cochrane (1753-1826), Scottish civil servant, businessman and inventor Blake Cochrane (born 1991)...
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  • (1791–1878), British industrialist John Howard (mathematician) (1753–1799), Scottish mathematician John Howard (NIOSH director), American public health...
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    of Parliament, one by the Parliament of England in 1706, the other by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. They put into effect the Treaty of Union agreed...
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    Dugald Stewart (category 1753 births)
    November 1753 – 11 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician. Today regarded as one of the most important figures of the later Scottish Enlightenment...
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    Bruce (Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart am Brusach), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence...
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    Parliament of Scotland, which was in existence until 1707. List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland from 1424 List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland from...
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  • "Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs" by David Herd (1732–1810) 1787–1803 The Scots Musical Museum in 6 volumes by James Johnson (1753?–1811) with contributions...
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  • Daniel Campbell (c. 1671 – 1753) was a Scottish merchant, slave trader and politician who sat in the British House of Commons representing the constituency...
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    Naturalisation Act, enacted in 1753, but repealed the next year. It has been theorised that some Jews who arrived in Scotland promptly assimilated, with...
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