1815: First casks of salted herring exported from Scotland to Continent.
1815: Architect James Gillespie Graham designs Armadale Castle.
1816: Stethoscope invented.
1816: Road between Sligachan and Portree completed.
1819: First Macadamised Roads.
1819: Road between Portree and Uig completed.
1819: First steamship crosses the Atlantic.
1819: Geological map of Skye drawn.
1821: Electric motor invented.
1822: First steam ship sailing to Skye.
1822: First iron steamship launched.
1822: Iain Dubh MacCrimmon, last principal of the Borreraig piping school dies aged 92 and is buried in Kilmuir (Dunvegan) churchyard. Shortly beforehand he publishes a pamphlet entitled “The failure of Christianity”. The clergy have a copy buried with him..
1823: Macintosh develops rubberized cotton.
1824: First modern map of Skye, drawn by William Thompson.
1824: Loch Chaluim Chile (St Columba’s Loch) Trotternish, finally drained.
1824: James MacLeod, 11th chief of Raasay, dies. Succeeded by son John.
1825: Spanish barilla regains dominance as alkali precursor from locally harvested kelp.
1825: Stockton to Darlington Railway opened.
1827: Photographs produced on metal plates.
1828: Weekly trips to Skye’s Spar Cave on the schooner/steamship hybrid Ben Lomond advertised in the Glasgow Herald..
1829The Mary sails with 84 settlers to Prince Edward Island. The Mary Kennedy sails from Portree for Charlottetown with settlers mostly from Uig and Lyndale.
1829: Road from Stein to Sligachan, advised by Thomas Telford’s report of 1805, completed.
1830: Talisker Distillery built.
1831: Turner paints Loch Corriskin.
1832: Morse code invented.

Courtesy of Geoff Holman