When John Ballantyne was born in 1736, in Peebles, Peeblesshire, Scotland, his father, John Ballantyne, was 25 and his mother, Lilias Govan, was 23. He died on 1 May 1815, in Eddleston, Peeblesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 79, and was buried in Eddleston, Peeblesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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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.
Scottish: variant of Ballentine .
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