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Events on Friday 7 September 1736 1
1736Porteous Riots Erupt in EdinburghA mob storms the Tolbooth and lynches a city guard captainAfter Captain John Porteous ordered his guardsmen to fire on a crowd at a public execution and was then controversially reprieved, an Edinburgh mob broke into the Tolbooth prison on the night of 7 September 1736. The crowd seized Porteous and hanged him in the Grassmarket. The episode became one of the most notorious incidents of civil unrest in eighteenth-century Scotland.