| Event | Year | Destination | Reason for Emigration |
| 1700s | Virginia | Settlement of tobacco plantations etc |
| Jacobite Rebellion | 1745 | Carolina | Settlement of tacksman families and subtenants especially from Skye and Uists |
| War of American Independence | 1774 | Pennsylvania | Settlement of merchant families especially from Lewis |
| French Revolutionary Wars | 1800 | Cape Breton | Settlement of ex-soldiers especially from Barra |
| 1820s | Cape Breton | Major emigration from Hebrides following collapse of kelp industry |
| 1820s | Cape Breton | Major emigration from Hebrides as a result of Clearances |
| Potato Blight | 1845 | Quebec | Emigration from Lewis to Quebec |
| | Britain | Emigration to industrial centres |
| 1851 | Australia | Sponsored emigration with Highlands & Islands Emigration Society from Harris and N. Uist |
| 1850s | Ontario | Emigrations from Lewis under Matheson |
| Crofters Act | 1880s | Prairies | Assisted settlement from Lewis, Harris and S Uist |
| 1900s | Patagonia | Many families went as shepherds to Patagonia and the Falkland Isles |
| WW1 | 1920s | Prairies | Assisted settlement from Uists |
| 1920s | Canada | Post-war emigration from Lewis |
| 1920s | | Major emigration from all parts of Hebrides onwards to all parts of world |
