1749 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1749 in Scotland.

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  • 5 January – James Wolfe is promoted to major in Peyton's Regiment of Foot, at this time stationed in Glasgow.
  • 6 March – A "corpse riot" breaks out in Glasgow after a body disappears from a churchyard in the Gorbals district. It is suspected that anatomy students at the Glasgow Infirmary "had raised a dead body from the grave and carried it to the college" for dissection.[1] The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begin breaking windows at random buildings, and groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyards.[2]
  • 4 June – A fire in Glasgow leaves 200 families homeless.[3]
  • A stagecoach service opens between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
  • The Treason Outlawries (Scotland) Act is passed.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Moore, Peter N. (2018). Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom: The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South. Lexington Books. p. 40.
  2. ^ Fulton, Henry L. (2014). Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel and Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 54.
  3. ^ Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great". The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. and E. Layton. p. 51.
  4. ^ Pittock, Murray G. H. (2004). "Robertson, Alexander, of Struan (c.1670–1749)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23783. (subscription or UK public library membership required)