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Jun 5, 2005 19:07:59 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 5, 2005 19:07:59 GMT 10
June 1
June 1, 1679 On this day in 1679 the Battle of Drumclog was fought in Avondale Parish, Lanarkshire, between Covenanters attending a Conventicle and Royalist troops under Graham of Claverhouse. The Covenanters easily routed the government forces. However, the euphoria which followed this victory was short-lived, as the authorities brought in a large Royalist army, which defeated a largish Covenanter force at Bothwell Bridge, exactly three weeks later.
June 1, 1841 On this day Sir David Wilkie, the Scottish painter, died. Noted for his portraits and genre subjects, his most famous works include "Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo". Wilkie was born in Cults manse in Fife in 1785. His 1806 painting "The Village Politicians" was a great success and he then left to settle in London. In 1817, he painted Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford, which now hangs in the Scottish National Gallery. His painting is mainly in the Dutch style, although he later changed his style, choosing more historical subjects, like "The Preaching of John Knox before the Lords of Congregation, 10 June 1559". In 1840, for health reasons, he took a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land, but sadly died on the voyage home.
June 1 1841 Poet and songwriter Robert Allan (born in Kilbarchan in 1774) died in New York, six days after sailing there from Scotland to join his son. He had believed that his poetry would be better appreciated in North America.
June 1 1843 Dr Henry Faulds, who established the uniqueness of fingerprints, born in Beith, Ayrshire.
June 1, 1872 Today in 1872 James Gordon Bennett, the Scottish-born American journalist, died. Bennett was the founding editor of the 'New York Herald', the first newspaper to carry regular financial articles on Wall St. He was one of a core group of publishers and editors who transformed and modernized journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. James Gordon Bennett was born in Keith, to a Roman Catholic farming couple. After an unsuccesful time training for the priesthood, he renounced his faith. In May 1835 Bennett began publishing the New York Herald, which combined public-interest stories, sensational reports of crimes and disasters, and coverage of national and international news. In April 1836 the Herald shocked readers with front-page coverage of the murder of a prostitute, Helen Jewett. During this episode, Bennett is credited with conducting the first newspaper interview. That same year the Herald initiated a cash-in-advance policy for advertisers, which would soon become standard newspaper practice. By the end of the decade the Herald and the Sun were the two highest-circulation dailies in America, a distinction the Herald carried until Bennett’s retirement.
June 1 1878 First Tay rail bridge opens. It was to collapse 18 months later in the Tay Bridge Disaster.
June 1 1946 First TV licences issued in Britain, costing £2.
June 1 1957 First Premium Bond prizes were drawn by the computer "Ernie" (Electronic random number indicator equipment).
June 1 1982 Pope John Paul II in Glasgow.
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Jun 5, 2005 19:09:16 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 5, 2005 19:09:16 GMT 10
June 2
1398 Prince Henry St Clair (Sinclair) landed in Nova Scotia, having sailed from Orkney.
1581 James Douglas, the Earl of Morton, died. Morton played a leading role in the overthrow of Mary, Queen of Scots, and then ruled the country as Regent for her young son, James VI, between the years 1572-78. His ruthless efficiency alienated many nobles, but his downfall came about after he refused to support Presbyterianism in its fight against the Episcopy. In 1581 he was forced out of office and belatedly accused of complicity in the assassination of Mary's estranged husband, Henry, Lord Darnley. He was found guilty and executed. He was in the following year executed by being beheaded on the Maiden, ironically the form of guillotine which he himself had imported into Scotland from France.
1926 Sir William Leishman, the Scottish bacteriologist, died. Leishman discovered the protozoan parasite responsible for dumdum, or kala-azar, fever, now known as Leishmaniasis. He also developed the clinical technique known as the Leishman stain, which is still used today to detect protozoan parasites such as plasmodium (the cause of malaria). Leishman is also noted for his work with Sir Almroth Wright on the vaccine for typhoid.
1941 Clothes rationing introduced as a war-time measure. It was not lifted until 1949.
1941 Two adults and eight children died when a sea mine exploded on the foreshore at Buckhaven, Fife. Owing to wartime regulations the media were not allowed to fully report the incident and grieving locals were told to keep the tragedy to themselves. The casualties were Robert Burrell (31), George Irvine (13), George (15) and Robert Jenson (14), Joe (13) and William Kinnear (10), John Thomson (12), Henry Walton (14), Henry (37) and James Wilkie (13).
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Objectors who said that Scotland had never had a "Queen Elizabeth I" were told that in future the "highest number will be used" where there is such a conflict.
1994 25 top intelligence officers and the crew of four were killed when a Chinook helicopter in which they were travelling from Northern Ireland crashed into a hillside on the Mull of Kintyre. _________________
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Jun 5, 2005 19:10:56 GMT 10
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June 3
June 3, 1726 James Hutton, the chemist and geologist, was born. Hutton is regarded as a pioneer of modern geology. At the time of his research, people still widely accepted The Bible's account that the world was only about 6,000 years old. Geologists believed that rock layers had been laid down during the Biblical floods. Hutton, however, refused to accept that one single event was responsible for the formation of the world as we know it. In his work, 'Theory of the Earth', he proposed that the Earth's crust had been created through a continuous, gradual process called "uniformitarianism." After his death in 1797, his theory was greatly enhanced by John Playfair's 1802 Illustrations Of Huttonian Theory and subsequently of great impact on 19th century thought.
June 3, 1774 Paisley poet, Robert Tannahill, was born. Author of such poems as 'The Flower of Dunblane' and 'Gloomy Winter's Noo Awa', Tannahill was frail and shy. Despite having a deformed right leg, he was inspired by the countryside around Paisley, where he often went walking. Tannahill became friends with James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, after he appeared as a guest at Tannahill's Paisley Burns club. A collection of his works was published in 1807 and they were well received, selling out within weeks. However, Tannahill was prone to depression and, when another group of poems was rejected by the Edinburgh publisher Archibald Constable, he consigned many of his writings to the flames. Tannahill committed suicide by drowning himself in a Paisley canal shortly after, in May 1810.
June 3 1863 Writer Neil Munro born Inveraray.
June 3, 1882 James Thomson, the Scottish poet who wrote under the pen-name, BV, died. Thomson's most famous work is the Gothic epic 'The City of Dreadful Night'. His pseudonym was used to distinguish him from another James Thomson who wrote "Rule Britannia". "The City of Dreadful Night" is inspired by Thomson's own experiences while living in London, where he was raised as an orphan in an asylum. Thomson became an army teacher in Ireland. However, he gave up his post and moved to London on the death of a friend's daughter, with whom he was in love. Thomson’s life never recovered from this blow, and his time in in London was lonely and impoverished, where he suffered from insomnia, and battled alcoholism for the remainder of his life.
June 3 1931 The company formed by John Logie Baird televised the Epsom Derby which was then transmitted by the BBC.
June 3 1978 Peru defeated Scotland 3-1 in the football World Cup in Argentina.
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Jun 5, 2005 19:12:34 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 5, 2005 19:12:34 GMT 10
June 4
June 4, 1694 The Merchant Maiden Hospital, later known as The Mary Erskine School, was founded by Mary Erskine in the Cowgate, Edinburgh.
June 4, 1717 The capture of Robert Roy MacGregor, notorious 'Highland Rogue' and sometime Jacobite rebel, by soldiers of John Murray, Duke of Atholl. Where the Marquis of Montrose had failed to run Rob down, Atholl intended to not only succeed and win the nearly 3,500 pounds sterling reward but also assure the new ruling Hanoverian regime of his hitherto suspect loyalty. Having been granted safe conduct to discuss his possible submission, the unsuspecting Rob had agreed to a meeting but was summarily imprisoned when neither threats nor bribery could make him falsely accuse Atholl's nemesis, John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, as a Jacobite and traitor. Knowing of Rob's daring escape after having once been captured by Montrose, Atholl ordered his men to keep Rob tied up and under close supervision
June 4, 1792 The King’s Birthday riots happened in Edinburgh on 4th May 1792. The decade saw repeated outbreaks of civil unrest in Scotland, with the King's Birthday riots being the most serious. Usually seen as a time of celebration, the King's birthday became the main focus for discontent in the country. The riots were almost certainly planned well in advance of the date, with pamphlets attacking the Lord Advocate, Dundas, widely distributed throughout the country. An effigy of Dundas was burned in Edinburgh as the rioting reached its peak. The riots lasted for over three days and nights, with at least one rioter shot dead. One theory blamed rising food prices as the cause of the unrest, after the introduction of the unpopular 1791 Corn Law, which prohibited grain imports until prices reached a certain point.
June 4, 1818 First recorded inter-club golf match - between Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society and Bruntsfield Links Golf Club.
June 4, 1832 Great Reform Bill, which disenfranchised rotten burghs, came into force.
June 4, 1940 Evacuation of Dunkirk (which began on May 27) was completed. 338,226 soldiers were brought back to the UK by the "little ships."
June 4, 1940 Winston Churchillmade his speech to the nation saying: "We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
June 4, 1977 On this day in 1977 Wembley Stadium was vandalised by jubilant Scottish fans after a thrilling 2-1 victory over the Auld Enemy. Following the match, Scottish supporters invaded the pitch and caused an estimated £15,000 worth of damage. One of those on the pitch was pop star Rod Stewart.
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Jun 5, 2005 22:00:05 GMT 10
Post by dreamy on Jun 5, 2005 22:00:05 GMT 10
I love this thread very much, Elly. Especially because it's info about both, the "old" and recent and present days of Scottish history. In any case always a reason to sit down and look up more information about topics which have caught your special interest then.
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Jun 6, 2005 19:53:04 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 6, 2005 19:53:04 GMT 10
I love this thread very much, Elly. Especially because it's info about both, the "old" and recent and present days of Scottish history. In any case always a reason to sit down and look up more information about topics which have caught your special interest then. Glad you like it Dreamy ;D
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Jun 6, 2005 19:55:36 GMT 10
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June 5
June 5 1592 An Act of the Scottish Parliament came into force "concerning the Office of Lyoun King of Armes and his brether Heraldis" creating the best regulated system of armorial bearings in Europe.
June 5, 1723 The father of economics, Adam Smith, was born in Kirkcaldy. Author of the pioneering work, 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations'. In 1751 Smith was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow University, transferring in 1752 to the chair of moral philosophy. His lectures covered the field of ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy, or "police and revenue." Smith moved to London in 1776, where he published "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," which examined in detail the consequences of economic freedom. It covered such concepts as the role of self-interest, the division of labour and the function of markets. "Wealth of Nations" established economics as an autonomous subject and launched the economic doctrine of free enterprise.
June 5, 1865 Sir John Richardson, Scottish navigator, explorer, surgeon and naturalist, died. Richardson took part in Sir John Franklin's first two voyages to the Canadian Arctic in search of the north-west passage, and commanded an expedition to search for Franklin after he went missing in 1845. During these voyages Richardson surveyed more of the Canadian Arctic than any other explorer. Richardson was knighted in 1846, the year before leading the expedition to discover Franklin's whereabouts.
June 5 1868 James Connolly, Irish revolutionary, born in Edinburgh.
June 5 1916 HMS Hampshire sank off Orkney after striking a mine. Lord Kitchener, conqueror of Sudan, was drowned.
June 5 1975 Referendum held on British Membership of the European Community. In Scotland the vote was "Yes" 1,332,286; "No" 948,039. Turnout was 61%. Only Shetland and Western Isles had majorities against.
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Jun 8, 2005 0:39:37 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 8, 2005 0:39:37 GMT 10
June 6
June 6, 1560 Treaty of Edinburgh between France and England, recognising sovereignty of Mary Queen of Scots and her first husband Francis II.
June 6, 1717 Following his capture two days before, Rob Roy was incarcerated in the Perthshire prison of Logierait while his captor, the Duke of Atholl, returned to his residence of Huntingtower to write several triumphant letters to various notables, including Montrose who had failed so notably in his earlier conflict with the Highland Rogue. News of Rob's imprisonment, as well as rumors of rescue attempts by his MacGregor clansmen, caused great alarm in Edinburgh so mounted soldiers were ordered to proceed immediately to bring the famous prisoner back to the capitol city. Unfortunately for them, they did not move fast enough. The same day as his capture, Rob began to flatter his guards with his wit and musical ability, so much so that he was permitted to receive large amounts of whiskey which he did not neglect to share widely. He also received a visitor, one of his clansmen who arrived to take a written message to Rob's family. Apparently, nobody noticed that this man's horse was not the usual small highland pony but a light cavalry horse. Rob was given permission to write a note in the doorway of the jail to utilize the better light. As he handed his missive to his clansman, the latter tossed the reins to him and Rob jumped into the saddle and galloped down the road home to Loch Tay and freedom.
June 6, 1838 Thomas Glover was born in Fraserburgh. A leading figure in the industrialisation of Japan, Glover was the first non-Japanese to be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun - one of the top honours of the country. It was he who brought the first steam train to Japan, and founded the fore-runner of the great Mitsubishi yard which dominates Nagasaki harbour today - also the main reason for the targeting of this city in the atomic bomb attack. Ironically, Glover's main business was arms dealing and the selling of ships. Another claim to fame is that Glover's Japanese wife Tsuru, whom he married in 1867, is said to have been the inspiration for "Madame Butterfly."
June 6, 1891 Sir John MacDonald, the Scottish-born Canadian statesman, died. MacDonald was considered to be the architect of the Confederation of Canada and served twice as the first Prime Minister of the unified Dominion, between 1867-73 and 1878-91. Already an experienced local politician, he helped form the 1854 coalition with Upper Canadian reformers and French Canadians, creating the Liberal-Conservative Party. Within this coalition government, Macdonald was promoted to be attorney-general, and later acted as co-premier between 1856 and 1862. In 1864, MacDonald accepted that constitutional change was necessary for Canada, and spent that summer preparing proposals for a Confederation. He was a leading delegate at all three Confederation conferences, and was knighted for his work towards union.
June 6, 1987 Fulton Mackay, the well known Scottish actor, died. Fulton Mackay achieved huge popularity for his portrayal of Prison Officer Mr Mackay, in the highly successful television comedy series, Porridge, alongside Ronnie Barker. Mackay also appeared in the films Local Hero (1983), and Defence of the Realm (1985). He was also well-known for his numerous theatrical appearances, and made some forays into writing for the stage.
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Jun 8, 2005 1:09:31 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 8, 2005 1:09:31 GMT 10
June 7
June 7, 1329 Robert the Bruce died at Cardross Castle in Dunbartonshire. The cause of his death remains unclear, but there is a suspicion that Bruce suffered from leprosy for a long period and that this is what killed him in the end. He was buried in Dunfermline Abbey ,and in 1819 his tomb was discovered and opened. Bruce had always wanted to take part in the Crusades, and in death he got his wish. Bruce's right hand man, the Black Douglas, took his embalmed heart to Spain to fight the Moors. After Douglas's death, the cask containing the heart was returned to Melrose Abbey.
June 7 1690 The Scots Parliament ratified the establishment of a Presbyterian religious system, rejecting Episcopacy.
June 7 1811 Sir James Young Simpson, pioneer of anaesthetics and chloroform, born.
June 7, 1868 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the celebrated architect, painter and designer, was born. Regarded as one of the foremost British figures in the art nouveau movement, and as the principal exponent of the 'Glasgow Style', Mackintosh was born in the Townhead area of the city. Famous for his fusion of traditional Scottish forms and simple Japanese styles, Mackintosh attended the city's art school, later winning the commission to redesign the building. Some of his other notable works include the Willow tea rooms and the Hill House in Helensburgh, although he is equally renowned for his furniture designs, in particular his famous high-backed chairs.
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Jun 9, 2005 3:30:26 GMT 10
Post by smudger on Jun 9, 2005 3:30:26 GMT 10
Elly i second the opinion from Dreamy , it is interesting to read about past events and recent events . Good thread , good reading .
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Jun 9, 2005 20:01:20 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 9, 2005 20:01:20 GMT 10
Elly i second the opinion from Dreamy , it is interesting to read about past events and recent events . Good thread , good reading . Yes it is interesting, glad you enjoy it ;D
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Jun 9, 2005 20:03:48 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Jun 9, 2005 20:03:48 GMT 10
June 8
June 8 1333 King Edward III orders the capture of the Isle of Man from the Scots.
June 8, 1724 Birth of John Smeaton, civil engineer and lighthouse builder.
June 8, 1724 On this day in 1778 the Earl of Seaforth raised a regiment for the American War from the MacKenzies and MacRaes of Ross-shire and Sutherland. In 1961 the Seaforth Highlanders amalgamated with the Camerons to form the Queen's Own Highlanders.
June 8, 1778 Robert Stevenson, the noted Scottish civil engineer, was born. Stevenson is best known as a builder of lighthouses, such as Bell Rock or Eddystone. He is credited with practically inventing the Scottish lighthouse system, and was the inventor of the intermittent and flashing-light system now universally used by modern lighthouses. Stevenson was also the grandfather of the novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson.
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