Early Modern era · 1745 – 1746

Jacobite rising of 1745

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The last in a series of Jacobite risings that began in March 1689, it proved to be the end of Jacobitism as a major factor in British politics.

Jacobite rising of 1745
Jacobite rising of 1745 · David Morier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1745 – 1746
Where
Scotland
Era
Early Modern

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