The Enlightenment & New Town · event 1 of 8

1745

Charles Edward Stuart holds the city. The Jacobite army occupies Edinburgh for five weeks and holds court at Holyrood — but never takes the castle, which holds out above them.

The The Enlightenment & New Town era

  1. 1745
  2. 1759
  3. 1767
  4. 1768
  5. 1776
  6. 1785
  7. 1822
  8. 1826

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