Bonnie Prince Charlie and Burns

Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, gathered support among clansmen from the Scottish highlands and used it to raise an army for another attempt at the Stuart cause.

That cause failed, and its defeat opened the way for a harder change in the Highlands. Landlords cleared away the small farms, known as crofts, that clansmen had lived on, replacing them with sheep and cattle on a much larger scale; this process became known as the Highland Clearances, and it pushed many Scottish families to leave for North America.

Scotland kept its own New Year traditions. Auld Lang Syne, written by Robert Burns, became the song sung across the country at the New Year, itself known in Scotland as Hogmanay.