Scottish Literary Timeline 1394 James I, King of Scots, born, Dunfermline c1420 Robert Henryson born 1437 James I dies, Perth c1460 William Dunbar born, East Lothian(?) c1474 Gavin Douglas born, Tantallon(?) c1490 David Lyndsay born Robert Henryson dies, Dunfermline(?) 1501 The Palice of Honour, Douglas 1508 six poems printed by Dunbar printed c1513 John Knox born, Haddington c1520 William Dunbar dies 1522 Gavind Douglas dies, London 1528 The Dreme of David Lyndsay, Lyndsay 1529 The Complaynt of the King, Lyndsay 1536 The Complaynt and Publict Confessioun of the Kingis Auld Hound callit Bagsche, Lyndsay 1538 The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo, Lyndsay c1545 Alexander Montgomerie born 1553 The XIII Bukes of the Eneados, Douglas (post.) 1555 David Lyndsay dies 1556 James VI, King of Scots, born, Edinburgh Castle 1558 The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, Knox 1567 William Alexander born, Menstrie Alexander Craig born, Banff 1570 Robert Ayton born, Kinaldie 1572 John Knox dies, Edinburgh 1585 William Drummond born, Hawthornden John Scott of Scotstarvit born, Knightspottie Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie ["Reulis and Cautelis"], James VI 1586 History of the Reformation of Religion Within the Realm of Scotland, Knox (post.) 1597 The Cherie and the Slae, Montgomerie Daemonologie, James VI 1598 Alexander Montgomerie dies 1599 Basilicon Doron, James VI 1603 Darius, Alexander Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estatis, Lyndsay (post.) 1604 Aurora, Alexander The Political Essayes of Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane, Craig c1611 Thomas Urquhart born, Cromarty 1613 Tears on the Death of Meliades, Drummond 1614 Doomes-day, Alexander Poems, Amorous, Funereall, Divine, Pastorall in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals, Drummond 1623 Flowres of Sion, Drummond 1625 James VI dies 1627 Alexander Craig dies 1636 Robert Ayton dies 1637 Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum, Scott of Scotstarvit 1640 William Alexander dies, London 1641 Epigrams: Divine and Moral, Urquhart 1649 William Drummond dies 1652 The Discoverie of a Most Exquisite Jewel, Urquhart Pantochronicon, Urquhart 1653 Logopandecteison, Urquhart 1660 Thomas Urquhart dies 1670 John Scott of Scotstarvit dies 1684 Allan Ramsay born, Leadhills 1699 Robert Blair born, Edinburgh 1711 David Hume born, Edinburgh 1713 A Poem to the Memory of the Famous Archibald Pitcairne, Ramsay 1714 James Burnett, Lord Moboddo, born, Monboddo 1721 Thomas Blacklock born, Annan Tobias Smollett born, Vale of Leven William Wilkie born, Dalmeny Poems, Ramsay 1722 John Home born, Leith 1723 Adam Smith born, Kirkaldy 1724 Duncan Ban MacIntyre [Donncadh Ban Mac an t-Saoir] born, Glen Orchy The Evergreen, Ramsay The Tea-Table Miscellany, Ramsay (also 1725, '27, '32, '32, '37) 1725 The Gentle Shepherd, Ramsay 1729 John Moore born, Stirling 1732 William Falconer born, Edinburgh James Macpherson born, Ruthven 1739 Treatise on Human Nature, Hume 1740 James Boswell born, Edinburgh 1741 Essays, Moral and Political, Hume 1743 The Grave, Blair 1745 Henry Mackenzie born, Edinburgh 1746 Robert Blair dies Advice: a Satire, Smollett 1748 Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Behavior, Hume Roderick Random, Smollett 1750 Robert Fergusson born, Edinburgh 1751 An Enquiry Concerning the Prinicples of Morals, Hume Peregrine Pickle, Smollett 1753 Dugald Stewart born, Edinburgh Ferdinand, Count Fathom, Smollett 1757 Douglas, Home The Epigoniad, Wilkie 1758 Elizabeth Hamilton born, Belfast Allan Ramsay dies, Edinburgh The Highlander, Macpherson 1759 Robert Burns born, Alloway The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith 1760 A Collection of Original Poems, Blacklock Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Macpherson (ed.) 1761 Fingal, Macpherson (ed?) 1762 Joanna Baillie born, Bothwell Launcelot Greaves, Smollett The Shipwreck, Falconer 1763 Temora, Macpherson (ed?) 1765 The Works of Ossian, Macpherson (ed?) 1768 An Account of Corsica, Boswell Fables, Wilkie Poems, MacIntyre 1769 William Falconer dies 1770 James Hogg born, Ettrickhall Farm 1771 Mungo Park born, Foulshiels Walter Scott born, Edinburgh Tobias Smollett dies, Livorno, Italy The Man of Feeling, Mackenzie Roderick Random, Smollett 1772 William Wilkie dies, St. Andrews 1773 Auld Reekie: A Poem, Fergusson The Man of Feeling, Mackenzie On the Origin and Progress of Language, Lord Moboddo Poems, Fergusson 1774 Robert Fergusson dies, Edinburgh 1776 David Hume dies, Edinburgh The Wealth of Nations, Smith 1777 Thomas Campbell Born, Glasgow 1779 Mary [Balfour] Brunton born, Orkney 1782 Susan Edmonstone Ferrier born, Edinburgh 1783 The Kingis Quair, James I (post.) 1784 William Tennant born, Anstruther 1785 John Wilson ["Christopher North"] born, Paisley Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell 1786 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Burns 1787 The Scots Musical Museum, Burns (ed.) 1788 George Gordon, Lord Byron born, London 1789 Michael Scott born, Glasgow Zeluco, Moore 1790 Adam Smith dies, Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, Baillie 1791 Thomas Blacklock dies The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D., Boswell "Tam o'Shanter," Burns (in Grose's Antiquities of Scotland) 1793 Outlines of Moral Philosophy, Stewart 1794 John Gibson Lockhart born, Cambusnethan 1795 Thomas Carlyle born, Ecclefechan James Boswell dies Essays of Philosophical Subjects, Smith (post.) 1796 G(eorge) R(obert) Gleig born, Stirling Robert Burns dies, Dumfries James Macpherson dies, Badenoch The Chase, and William and Helen, Two Ballads from the German, Walter Scott (trans.) 1797 William Motherwell ["Isaac Brown"] born, Glasgow 1798 David Macbeth Moir born, Musselburgh Plays of Passion, Baillie 1799 John Galt born, Irvine James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, dies, Edinburgh Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Park 1800 Catherine Sinclair born, Edinburgh The Merry Muses of Caledonia, Burns (post.) 1801 Scottish Pastorals, Hogg 1802 John Moore dies, London The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Walter Scott 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Walter Scott 1806 Mungo Park dies, Bussa, Niger 1807 Hours of Idleness, Byron 1808 John Home dies The Cottagers of Glenburnie, Hamilton Gertrude of Wyoming, Campbell Marmion, Walter Scott 1810 The Forest Minstrel, Hogg The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott Self Control, Brunton 1812 Duncan Ban MacIntyre dies Anster Fair, Tennant Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Byron Isle of Palms and Other Poems, Wilson 1813 W(illiam) E(dmonstoune) Aytoun born, Edinburgh David Livingstone born, Blantyre The Bride of Abydos, Byron 1814 Waverley, Walter Scott 1815 Guy Mannering, Walter Scott 1816 Elizabeth Hamilton dies 1818 Mary Brunton dies, Edinburgh Beppo, Byron The Brownie of Bodsbeck, Hogg The Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott Marriage, Ferrier Rob Roy, Walter Scott 1819 Don Juan, Byron The Harp of Renfrewshire, Motherwell Ivanhoe, Walter Scott Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Lockhart Specimens of the British Poets, Campbell 1821 Mary Macpherson [Mairi "Mairi Mhor nan Oran" nic-a-Phearsain] born, Skye George John Whyte-Melville born, Strathkinness The Annals of the Parish, Galt The Ayrshire Legatees, Galt Kenilworth, Walter Scott 1822 Adam Blair, Lockhart The Thane of Fife, Tennant 1823 The Entail, Galt Ringhan Gilhaize, Galt The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, Wilson 1824 George MacDonald born, Huntly George Gordon, Lord Byron dies, Missolonghi, Greece The Inheritance, Ferrier The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Hogg Redgauntlet, Walter Scott Theodoric, Campbell Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Carlyle (trans.) 1825 R(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne born, Edinburgh William McGonagall born, Edinburgh The Foresters, Wilson 1826 William Alexander born, Garioch The Subaltern, G.R. Gleig 1827 Henrietta Keddie ["Sarah Tytler"] born, Cupar Papistry Stormed, Tennant 1828 Margaret [Wilson] Oliphant born, Wallyford Dugald Stewart dies, Bo'ness The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor of Dalkeith, Moir Life of Robert Burns, Lockhart 1831 Henry Mackenzie dies Destiny, Ferrier 1832 Walter Scott dies, Abbotsford Poland, Homer, and Other Poems, Aytoun 1834 James Thomson born, Port Glasgow Poems of William Dunbar Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, Hogg Tom Cringle's Log, Michael Scott 1835 James Hogg dies William Motherwell dies Michael Scott dies, Glasgow The Cruise of the Midge, Michael Scott 1836 Sartor Resartus, Carlyle 1837 The French Revolution, Carlyle Memoirs of the Life of Scott, Lockhart 1839 John Galt dies, Greenock Holiday House, Sinclair 1840 William ["Gordon"] Stables born, Aberchirder 1841 On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History, Carlyle 1843 The Noctes Ambrosianae, Wilson Past and Present, Carlyle 1844 Andrew Lang born, Selkirk Thomas Campbell dies, Boulogne 1845 William Minto born, Alford The Book of Ballads, ed. by Bon Gaultier, Aytoun (with Theodore Martin) 1848 William Tennant dies, Anstruther Hudson's Bay, Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America, Ballantyne 1849 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems, Aytoun Margaret Maitland, Oliphant 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson born, Edinburgh John Watson ["Ian Maclaren"] born, Manningtree, Essex 1851 Joanna Baillie dies, London David Macbeth Moir dies, Edinburgh 1854 James George Frazer born, Glasgow Susan Edmonstone Ferrier dies John Gibson Lockhart dies, Abbotsford John Wilson dies 1855 William Sharp ["Fiona Macleod"] born, Paisley 1856 The Young Fur Traders, Ballantyne 1857 John Davidson born, Barrhead Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, Livingstone Phantastes, MacDonald 1858 The Coral Island, Ballantyne 1859 S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett born, Balmaghie Arthur Conan Doyle born, Edinburgh Kenneth Grahame born, Edinburgh Annie S. Swan born, Coldingham 1860 J(ames) M(atthew) Barrie born, Kirriemuir 1862 Helen Bannerman born, Edinburgh The Queen's Maries, Whyte-Melville 1863 Violet [Kennedy-Erskine] Jacob born, Montrose David Elginbrod, MacDonald Salem Chapel, Oliphant 1864 Neil Munro ["Hugh Foulis"] born, Inveraray Catherine Sinclair dies The Perpetual Curate, Oliphant 1865 Mary Findlater born, Lochearnhead W.E. Aytoun dies 1866 Jane Findlater born, Lochearnhead Miss Marjoribanks, Oliphant The Pentland Rising, Stevenson 1869 George Douglas Brown born, Ochiltree The Minister's Wife, Oliphant 1871 At the Back of the North Wind, MacDonald Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, Alexander 1872 Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, Lang The Princess and the Goblin, MacDonald 1873 David Livingstone dies, Africa 1875 John Buchan born, Perth 1877 Anna Buchan born 1878 David Lindsay born, London George John Whyte-Melville dies, Gloucestershire An Inland Voyage, Stevenson 1879 Catherine [Macfarlane] Carswell bron, Glasgow Ups and Downs, Swan 1880 The City of Dreadful Night, Thomson 1881 John Macdougall Hay born, Tarbert (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie born, West Hartlepool Thomas Carlyle dies Wild Adventures in Wild Places, Stables 1882 James Thomson dies The Human Inheritance, The New Hope, Motherhood and Other Poems, Sharp New Arabian Nights, Stevenson 1883 Aldersyde, Swan Treasure Island, Stevenson 1884 Carlowrie, Swan St. Mungo's City, Keddie 1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, Stevenson Kidnapped, Stevenson 1886 Helen Cruickshank born, Hillside The Crack of Doom, Minto Cruise of the Land Yacht Wanderer, Stables The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson 1887 Edwin Muir born, Deerness Logie Town, Keddie The Master of Ballantrae, Stevenson Myth, Ritual and Religion, Lang A Study in Scarlet, Doyle Totemism, Frazer 1888 G.R. Gleig dies, London Auld Licht Idylls, Barrie The Gold of Farnilee, Lang The Sport of Chance, Sharp 1889 Prince Prigio, Lang 1890 Willa Muir born, Shetland The Golden Bough, Frazer Perfervid, Davidson Poetic Gems, McGonagall The Sign of the Four, Doyle 1891 Neil M(iller) Gunn born, Dunbeath Dain agus Orain Gheidhlig, Macpherson In a Music-Hall, Davidson The White Company, Doyle 1892 Christopher Murray Grieve ["Hugh Macdiarmid"] born, Langholm 1893 George Blake born, Greenock William Minto dies, Aberdeen Fleet Street Ecologues, Davidson Pagan Papers, Grahame The Stickit Minister, Crockett 1894 William Alexander dies R.M. Ballantyne dies, Rome Robert Louis Stevenson dies, Vailima, Samoa Baptist Lake, Davidson Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Watson The Lilac Sunbonnet, Crockett 1895 Days of Auld Lang Syne, Watson The Golden Age, Grahame Lilith, MacDonald My Own Fairy Book, Lang 1896 A(rchibald) J(oseph) Cronin born, Cardross The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, Doyle The Green Graves of Balgowrie, Jane Findlater The Lost Pibroch, Neil Munro The Minister's Wife, Oliphant Sentimental Tommy, Barrie Weir of Hermiston, Stevenson (post.) 1897 Naomi [Haldane] Mitchison born, Edinburgh Margaret Oliphant dies, London The Little Minister, Barrie 1898 Mary Macpherson dies John Splendid, Munro 1899 Eric Linklater born, Penrath, Wales Love and a Sword, Brown The Story of Little Black Sambo, Bannerman 1901 James Leslie Mitchell ["Lewis Grassic Gibbon"] born, Auchterless Doom Castle, Munro From the Hills of Dreams, Sharp The House with the Green Shutters, Brown 1902 George Douglas Brown dies, London William McGonagall dies The Admirable Crichton, Barrie The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle The Sheep-Stealers, Jacob 1903 The Rose of Joy, Mary Findlater 1904 Peter Pan, Barrie 1905 George MacDonald dies, Bordigherra, Italy William Sharp dies, Sicily Poems, Jacob 1906 Thomas Douglas Macdonald ["Fionn MacColla"] born, Montrose Sir Nigel, Doyle The Vital Spark, Munro 1907 John Watson dies 1908 Crossrigs, Jane & Mary Findlater The Wind in the Willows, Grahame 1909 Robert Garioch Sutherland born, Edinburgh 1910 Norman MacCaig born, Edinburgh William Stables dies, Berkshire 1911 Sorley MacLean [Somhairle MacGill-Eain] born, Osgaig The Passionate Elopement, Mackenzie Penny Monypenny, Jane & Mary Findlater Peter and Wendy, Barrie 1912 Andrew Lang dies Carnival, Mackenzie The Lost World, Doyle 1913 The Poison Belt, Doyle Sinister Street, Mackenzie 1914 S.R. Crockett dies, Peebles Henrietta Keddies dies, Oxford Gillespie, Hay The New Road, Munro 1915 Sydney Goodsir Smith born, Wellington, New Zealand Songs of Angus, Jacob The Thirty-nine Steps, Buchan 1916 Greenmantle, Buchan 1918 (John) Maurice Lindsay born, Glasgow Tom Scott born, Glasgow Muriel Spark born, Edinburgh We Moderns, Edwin Muir 1919 Hamish Henderson born, Blairgowrie John Macdougall Hay dies, Elderslie 1920 Edwin Morgan born, Glasgow Open the Door!, Carswell Penny Plain, Buchan A Voyage to Arcturus, Lindsay 1921 George Mackay Brown born, Stromness 1923 Annals of the Five Senses, Grieve Beneath the Visiting Moon, Jane & Mary Findlater The Conquered, Mitchison 1925 George MacDonald Fraser born, Carlisle First Poem, Edwin Muir Sangschaw, Grieve 1926 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Grieve Grey Coast, Gunn Penny Wheep, Grieve 1927 Albyn, or Scotland and the Future, Grieve The Marionette, Edwin Muir Northern Lights and Other Poems, Jacob 1928 Iain Crichton Smith [Iain Mac a'Ghobhainn] born, Lewis Hanno, or the Future of Exploration, Mitchell 1929 Poet's Pub, Linklater White Maa's Saga, Linklater 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle dies Neil Munro dies, Craigendorran The Life of Robert Burns, Carswell Morning Tide, Gunn Strained Radiance, Mitchell To Circumjack Cencrastus, Grieve 1931 The Corn King and the Spring Queen, Mitchison First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems, Grieve Hatter's Castle, Cronin Imagined Corners, Willa Muir Juan in America, Linklater 1932 Kenneth Grahame dies The Albannach, Macdonald Second Hymn to Lenin, Grieve Sunset Song, Mitchell 1933 Cloud Howe, Mitchell Mrs. Ritchie, Willa Muir Spartacus, Mitchell Sun Circle, Gunn 1934 Alasdair Gray born, Glasgow At the Sign of the Thistle, Grieve Butcher's Broom, Gunn Grey Granite, Mitchell Up the Noran Water, Cruickshank 1935 James Leslie Mitchell dies, Welwyn Garden City The Shipbuilders, Blake 1936 Mrs. Grundy in Scotland, Willa Muir Scott and Scotland, Edwin Muir 1937 J.M. Barrie dies 1940 John Buchan dies, Canada 17 Poems for 6d, MacLean & Sutherland 1941 James George Frazer dies The Monarch of the Glen, Mackenzie The Silver Darlings, Gunn Skail Wind, Sydney Goodsir Smith 1942 Douglas Dunn born, Inchinnan 1943 Annie S. Swan dies Dain do Eimhir agus Dain Eile, MacLean Far Cry, MacCaig Lucky Poet, Grieve The Narrow Place, Edwin Muir 1944 Tom Leonard born, Glasgow 1945 David Lindsay dies, Brighton And the Cock Crew, Macdonald 1946 Hellen Bannerman dies, Edinburgh Catherine Carswell dies Jane Findlater dies, Comrie Violet Jacob dies The Inward Eye, MacCaig 1947 Liz Lochhead born, Motherwell The Bull Calves, Mitchison Whisky Galore, Mackenzie 1948 Anna Buchan dies Elegies for the Dead in Cyranica, Henderson Under the Eildon Tree, Sydney Goodsir Smith 1949 Chuckis on a Cairn, Sutherland The Labyrinth, Edwin Muir 1952 Dies Irae, Morgan So Late into the Night, Sydney Goodsir Smith The Vision of Cathkin Braes, Morgan 1953 Seevin Poems o Maister Francis Villon, Scott 1954 Iain [M(enzies)] Banks born, Dunfermline Self, Brown 1955 Riding Lights, MacCaig 1959 Edwin Muir dies, Cambridge Robert Crawford born, Bellshill Figs and Thistles, Sydney Goodsir Smith Loaves and Fishes, Brown 1960 Burn is Aran, Iain Crichton Smith The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Spark 1961 George Blake dies The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark 1963 Mary Findlater dies, Comrie The Ship and Ither Poems, Scott 1965 Kynd Kittock's Land, Sydney Goodsir Smith 1966 The Company I've Kept, Grieve 1968 Consider the Lilies, Iain Crichton Smith 1969 The Business of Living, Lindsay Flashman, Fraser A Man in My Position, MacCaig Six Glasgow Poems, Leonard Terry Street, Dunn A Time to Keep, Brown 1970 Willa Muir dies 1971 Backwaters, Dunn 1972 Greenvoe, George Mackay Brown Memo for Spring, Lochhead 1973 Neil M. Gunn dies Compton Mackenzie dies, Edinburgh 1974 Eric Linklater dies, Aberdeen 1975 Helen Cruickshank dies, Edinburgh Thomas Douglas Macdonald dies, Edinburgh Sydney Goodsir Smith dies Two Men and a Blanket, Sutherland 1978 Christopher Murray Grieve dies, Biggar 1981 A.J. Cronin dies Robert Garioch Sutherland dies, Edinburgh Lanark, Gray Murdo, Iain Crichton Smith 1982 A Field Full of Folk, Iain Crichton Smith 1983 Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Gray 1984 1982, Janine, Gray Intimate Voices, Leonard The Wasp Factory, Banks 1985 Secret Villages, Dunn 1987 Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Lochhead 1988 Northlight, Dunn 1990 A Scottish Assembly, Crawford Something Leather, Gray 1992 Devolving English Literature, Crawford Poor Things, Gray 1996 George Mackay Brown dies, Kirkwall Norman MacCaig dies, Edinburgh