Timelines
7000bc Mesolithic settlement
100ad Iron Age (duns etc)
600 Christian missionaries
900 Viking raids
1264 Treaty of Perth
1500 Collapse of Lordship of the Isles
1600s MacLeods lose Lewis to MacKenzies
1770s Rise of kelp-trade
1770 Major emigrations to USA and PEI
1815 End of kelp-boom
1820s Emigration to Cape Breton
1840s Potato Blight
1840s Emigration to Quebec from Lewis
1844 Lewis sold to Matheson
1858 South Uist and Barra sold to Gordon-Cathcart
1856 North Uist sold to Campbell Orde
1850s Emigration to Australia from North Uist and Harris
1850s Emigration to Ontario from Uists and Lewis
1863 Emigration to Ontario from Harris
1880s Emigration to Canadian Prairies
1918 Lewis and Harris sold to Lord Leverhulme
1923/24 Emigrations on Metagama, Marloch & Canada
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