When Jean Burness was christened on 29 July 1744, in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, David Burness, was 23 and her mother, Jean Campbell, was 22.
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In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Scottish: variant of Burns .
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