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| c. 1710 |
| | | James Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, commissions John James to design his new house, to become known later as Orleans House. | |
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| 1715 |
| | | A Jacobite uprising in Scotland on behalf of the Old Pretender ends in fiasco | |
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| 1724 |
| | | General Wade, commander-in-chief of North Britain, begins an impressive programme of road construction in the Scottish Highlands | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart lands at Eriskay in the Hebrides, launching the Forty-Five Rebellion | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart gathers support for the Forty-Five Rebellion on his way south from the Hebrides and reaches Edinburgh | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart marches as far south as Derby, but then turns back | |
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| 1746 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart and his 5000 Scots are routed at Culloden, bringing the Forty-Five Rebellion to an abrupt end | |
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| 1746 |
| | | Tartan and Highland dress are banned by the British government, in a prohibition not lifted until 1782 | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air' | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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