{"slug": "scottish-highlands", "label": "Scottish Highlands", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106652", "qid": "Q106652", "description": "historic region of Scotland", "entries": 20, "years": 16, "span": [1306, 1995], "span_label": ["1306 CE", "1995 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 8}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Highland Line", "Highland line", "Highlands of Scotland"], "related": [{"slug": "jacobitism", "label": "Jacobitism", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "parliament-of-great-britain", "label": "Parliament of Great Britain", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "house-of-stuart", "label": "House of Stuart", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1306, "year_label": "1306 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – Battle of Dalrigh: Robert the Bruce is defeated by rival Scottish forces (some 1,000 men) led by John the Lame of Argyll chieftain and uncle of John Comyn the Red of the Clan MacDougall at Dalrigh (known as \"King's Field\"). (\"After the defeat which Robert Bruce experienced in Perthshire from Edward I, soon after his coronation at Scone, he was endeavoring to make his way toward the West Highlands with a few followers, when, on the 11th of August 1306, he was encountered at a place, since called Dalrigh (the King's field) near Tyndrum, on the border of Argyllshire, by that powerful chief, or rather potentate, Allaster or Alexander MacDougall of Argyll...\") During the battle, Bruce himself narrowly escapes capture and takes with the remnants refuge in the mountains of Atholl (Scottish Highlands).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354973149#July_–_September", "title": "1306", "revid": 1354973149, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1597, "year_label": "1597 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "July 23", "text": "23 July – Earthquake in the Highlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360873060#Events", "title": "1597 in Scotland", "revid": 1360873060, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody feuds between the clans in the Scottish Highlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588617#Date_unknown", "title": "1609", "revid": 1365588617, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1694, "year_label": "1694 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – A major windstorm begins and continues for several days, spreading the Culbin Sands over a large area of farmland in the Scottish Highlands in the County of Moray and burying the now-abandoned village of Culbin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353084901#October–December", "title": "1694", "revid": 1353084901, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Two new laws go into effect in the Highlands of Scotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobites who supported the restoration of the House of Stuart. The Disarming Act requires government authorisation to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to the Treason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#October–December", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 1", "text": "1 November – Disarming Act, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, comes into effect, intended to prevent clansmen in the Highlands from having weapons.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362263133#Events", "title": "1716 in Scotland", "revid": 1362263133, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 13", "text": "13 April – A Jacobite force under George Keith reaches Loch Alsh in the Scottish Highlands and disembarks, launching the Jacobite rising of 1719", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245199#Events", "title": "1719 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245199, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – The Black Watch is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#April–June", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "12 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245388#Events", "title": "1725 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245388, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 10", "text": "10 January – emigrants from the Scottish Highlands arrive in North America on the Prince of Wales to establish the defensive town of Darien, Georgia, originally called New Inverness, among them being Lachlan McGillivray, Lachlan McIntosh and other members of the Clan Mackintosh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362263052#Events", "title": "1736 in Scotland", "revid": 1362263052, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 17", "text": "17 March – the Parliament of Great Britain passes an act to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254110#Events", "title": "1752 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254110, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1752, "year_label": "1752 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 17", "text": "17 March – Parliament passes a bill to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835177#Events", "title": "1752 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835177, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1762, "year_label": "1762 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365703626#Events", "title": "1762 in Scotland", "revid": 1365703626, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1762, "year_label": "1762 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Scottish Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276244439#Undated", "title": "1762 in Great Britain", "revid": 1276244439, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "\"Wash Act\" reduces excise duty on Scotch whisky and provides a definition of the Highland Line.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254206#Events", "title": "1784 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254206, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1792, "year_label": "1792 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "\"Year of the Sheep\" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368401387#Events", "title": "1792 in Scotland", "revid": 1368401387, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1811, "year_label": "1811 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Highland Clearances – the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford begin mass expulsion of crofting tenants from their Highland estates to make way for sheep farming.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254362#Events", "title": "1811 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254362, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1833, "year_label": "1833 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Glengoyne distillery is established as the Burnfoot distillery by George Connell on the Highland line near Dumgoyne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254533#Events", "title": "1833 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254533, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254934#Events", "title": "1907 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254934, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 °C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372467239#December", "title": "1995", "revid": 1372467239, "section": "Events › December"}}]}