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| 1815 |
| | | Scottish engineer John McAdam builds the first macadamized road, in the Bristol region of southwest England | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades | |
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| 1822 |
| | | George IV wears a tartan kilt when visiting Edinburgh, and launches a new craze for Highland dress | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle' | |
|  | Abbotsford House
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| 1826 |
| | | Scottish engineer Thomas Telford completes two suspension bridges in Wales, at Conwy and over the Menai Strait | |
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| 1828 |
| | | William Burke and William Hare murder 16 victims and sell their bodies to the Edinburgh Medical School for anatomical study | |
|  | Execution of William Burke
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| 1846 |
| | | Landlords in Scotland begin to clear crofters from Highland estates so as to provide pasture for sheep | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Scottish obstetrician James Simpson uses anaesthetic (ether, and later in the year choloroform) to ease difficulty in childbirth | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, proposes the 'absolute' scale of temperature | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia | |
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