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1692 |
Jan
|
King William III issues an
order to discipline the Highland Scots. |
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13 Feb
|
The Glencoe Massacre. After the MacDonald chief was late talking his
oath to King William, members of the Campbell clan killed 38 members
of the MacDonald clan at Glencoe |
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1696 |
Feb |
A Jacobite plot to murder King William III was uncovered. |
|
|
March |
Jacobite invasion scare. |
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1701 |
12 June |
Act of
Settlement passed by the Parliament, ensured that if William III and
Princess Anne (later Queen Anne) should die without heirs, the
succession to the throne should pass to Sophia of Hanover,
granddaughter of James I, and to her heirs, if they were Protestants.
The house of Hanover, which ruled Great Britain from 1714, owes its
claim to this act. |
|
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6 Sept
|
Death of the
deposed James II. Louis XIV of France recognises his son as James III,
later known as the 'Old Pretender'. |
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1708
|
23 March
|
A French naval
squadron attempted unsuccessfully to land the Old Pretender on the
Firth of Forth near Edinburgh. |
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1715
|
6 Sept |
Start of 'the Fifteen'. Following the
accession of King George I, a Jacobite rebellion started in Braemar in
Scotland. |
|
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13 Nov
|
The Scottish Jacobites were defeated at
the Battle of Sheriffmuir. |
|
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14 Nov
|
A Scottish and English
Jacobite force was defeated near Preston in northwest England. |
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22 Dec
|
The Old Pretender lands at Peterhead in northeast Scotland, joining
Jacobites at Perth before returning to France on 4 Feb 1716. |
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1722 |
24 Sept |
The Atterbury
Plot. The Bishop of Rochester, Francis Atterbury, a Jacobite leader
was arrested and later exiled. |
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1745
|
23 July |
Start of the
'Forty-Five'. Prince Charles Edward, son of James and also known as the
Young Pretender, landed on Eriskay Island off the west coast of
Scotland. |
| |
19 Aug |
With support from some of
the Catholic MacDonalds, Charles was able to gather his men at
Glenfinnan. There the standard was raised and his father was
proclaimed King James III and VIII. |
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11 Sept
|
Jacobites capture Edinburgh. |
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21 Sept
|
Jacobites defeat a British force at Prestonpans and move south into
England. |
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4 Dec
|
Jacobites reach Derby, just 150 miles
from London. Due to lack of support
Lord
George Murray and the other chiefs advise Charles to return to
Scotland and wait for French help. |
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1746
|
17 Jan |
Back in Scotland the
Jacobites fail to capture Stirling Castle, but then defeat General
Henry Hawley's army at Falkirk. |
|
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18 Feb
|
Withdrawing
ever further north, the Jacobites capture Inverness. They stay there
for 2 months. Meanwhile a government army, led by the king's younger
son, Prince William Duke of Cumberland, was catching them up. |
| |
16 April |
Against the advice of his
chiefs, Charles lined up the Jacobite army - hungry and tired - on the
flat moor of Culloden. It was to be the last major battle fought on
British soil. In less than an hour Cumberland's cannon destroyed the
military threat of Jacobitism.
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20 Sept
|
Charles fled Culloden Moor with a reward of £30,000 on his head and after many adventures,
he eventually escaped on a ship to France. |
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1766 |
1 Jan |
Death of the Old Pretender. |
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1788 |
31 Jan |
Death of the Young Pretender. |
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1807
|
13 July |
Death of Henry Stuart, Cardinal York, younger brother of the Young
Pretender and the last Stuart in the male line. |
