Events from the year 1718 in Scotland. Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet Solicitor...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1718. 1718 (MDCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday 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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War of the Quadruple Alliance (redirect from Quadruple Alliance (1718))
The War of the Quadruple Alliance was fought from 1718 to 1720 by Spain, and the Quadruple Alliance, a coalition between Britain, France, Austria, and...
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dissenting minister Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk 1718 in Scotland J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and...
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This is a list of significant events that occurred in the year 1718 in science. Edmond Halley discovers the proper motion of stars. Étienne François Geoffroy...
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Lord Kennet (1718–1785), Scottish advocate, legal scholar and judge Baron Kennet, of the Dene in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of...
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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1718. November 1 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes the last of her Turkish Letters...
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Blair (section Scottish clan)
States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire Hugh Blair (1718–1800), Scottish author Hugh Blair (composer) (1864–1932), English musician, composer...
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(1769–1847), Scottish advocate and landowner James Menteath (c.1718–1802), Scottish cleric James Stuart Menteath (1792–1870), Scottish advocate and amateur...
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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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Charles I of England (redirect from Charles I of Scotland)
1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart...
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Lachlan (name) (category Scottish masculine given names)
McGillivray (c. 1718 – 1799), Scottish emigrant to Georgia, fur trader and plantation owner Lachlan McIntosh (1725–1806), Scottish American general in the Continental...
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Robert Henry (minister) (category 1718 births)
FRSE FSA (Scot) (18 February 1718 – 24 November 1790) was a Scottish minister and historian. He was born on 18 February 1718, the son of Jean Galloway and...
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Charles II of England (redirect from Charles II of Scotland)
King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles...
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Acts of Union 1707 (redirect from Union of England and Scotland)
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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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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Broughton, 7th Baronet Stanhope (c. 1718 – 1777), Scottish Jacobite Sir John Irvine Murray (1826–1902), Scottish general who raised the 14th Murray's...
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(1888–1951), English cricketer John Stevenson (doctor) (c. 1718–1785), Scottish-born merchant and doctor in Baltimore, Maryland John Stevenson (surgeon) (1778–1846...
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James Francis Edward Stuart (redirect from James VIII of Scotland)
Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701 until his death in 1766. The only son of James II of England and his second...
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Kennet (section Places in the United Kingdom)
duo Lasse Strömstedt and Christer Dahl Robert Bruce, Lord Kennet (1718–1785), Scottish advocate, legal scholar and judge Kennet River (disambiguation) River...
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Shires of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachdan na h-Alba; Scots: Scots coonties), or Counties of Scotland, were historic subdivisions of Scotland. The shires...
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called The Judge (August 1718 – December 9, 1775), was a prominent colonial American politician, and a leading Whig in New York in the years leading up to...
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Mary II (redirect from Mary II of Scotland)
was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694. She was also Princess...
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Mary of Modena (redirect from Mary of Modena, Queen of England and Scotland)
October [O.S. 25 September] 1658 – 7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1718) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II and VII. A devout...
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television presenter John Hunter (1728–1793), Scottish surgeon and anatomist William Hunter (1718–1783), Scottish anatomist and physician Edward Jenner FRS...
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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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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (redirect from Vicariate Apostolic of Scotland)
resigned again in July 1693) Vicariate Apostolic of Scotland. Thomas Joseph Nicolson (appointed on 7 September 1694 – died on 12 October 1718) James Gordon...
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Lawrence Washington (1718 – July 26, 1752) was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia. As a founding member...
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William III of England (redirect from William II of Scotland)
Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. He ruled Great...
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