Scotland

The first volume of Encyclopedia Britannica was published in Edinburgh

First Edition The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was published in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland.

James Craigs winning entry for development of Edinburgh New Town was approved.

James Craig (31 October 1739 – 23 June 1795) was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in lowlands of the country and especially his native city of Edinburgh. He is remembered primarily for his layout of the first Edinburgh New Town.

Elizabeth Hamilton, born

Elizabeth Hamilton (1756 or 1758 – 23 July 1816) was a Scottish essayist, poet, satirist and novelist, who in both her prose and fiction entered into the French-revolutionary era controversy in Britain over the education and rights of women.

Sir Henry Raeburn, renowned Scottish painter, born.

Sir Henry Raeburn RA RSA FRSE (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland

Colin Campbell of Glenure, known as the Red Fox, a notorious persecutor of Jacobites after Culloden, was shot in Appin

Act of Proscription

The “Act of Proscription 1746” was a piece of legislation enacted by the British government in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746. The Jacobite Rising was an attempt to restore the exiled House of Stuart to the British throne. It culminated in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, where the Jacobite forces were decisively defeated by government forces.

John Paul Jones, born

Jones was born John Paul on 6 July 1747, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. At the age of 12 he entered the British merchant marine and went to sea for the first time as a cabin boy.

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was beheaded for High Treason

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a step treacherous in the extreme.

William Boyd of Kilmarnock, Scottish Jacobite leader, executed by the English

William Boyd (1704-1746), 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, was a Scottish nobleman.

Charles Edward Stuart and Flora MacDonald escape over the sea to Skye

Flora MacDonald (1722 ? March 05, 1790), Jacobite heroine, was the daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton in the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and his wife Marion, the daughter of Angus MacDonald.