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Aug 1, 2005 19:12:44 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 1, 2005 19:12:44 GMT 10
August 1
August 1 1714 - Death of Queen Anne; George I, Elector of Hanover becomes king.
August 1 1747 - Proscription Act introduced, banning tartan and the carrying of weapons. The penalty for a first offence was six months in jail and a second offence resulted in transportation for seven years.
August 1 1967 - University of Dundee which was incorporated into the University of St Andrews in 1890, constituted as a separate university.
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Aug 2, 2005 22:08:26 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Aug 2, 2005 22:08:26 GMT 10
August 1 August 1 1714 - Death of Queen Anne; George I, Elector of Hanover becomes king. August 1 1747 - Proscription Act introduced, banning tartan and the carrying of weapons. The penalty for a first offence was six months in jail and a second offence resulted in transportation for seven years. August 1 1967 - University of Dundee which was incorporated into the University of St Andrews in 1890, constituted as a separate university. Proscription another name for oppression and ethnic identity destruction
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Aug 5, 2005 16:21:48 GMT 10
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August 2
August 2, 1894 Death duties introduced for the first time in Britain.
August 2, 1910 Roger MacDougall, the Scottish playwright and film screenwriter, was born. MacDougall was the author of the classic comedy play "The Man in the White Coat", which he also wrote the film script for as an Ealing Comedy. He also wrote the scripts for the Ealing comedies, "A Touch of Larceny" and "The Mouse That Roared". His other plays include, "Escapade" and "To Dorothy a Son" bopth adapted as films. MacDougall also treated himself when diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, changing his diet and making a substantial recovery from the disease.
August 2, 1922 On 2 August 1922 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, died. Although he is best known for this invention Bell was also well known for his work on deafness, including teaching a young Helen Keller. His work in this field was a continuation of that which had been begun by his father, Alexander Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a method of teaching speech to the deaf. Bell also invented an air-cooling system, a way of desalinating sea-water and a sorting machine for punch-coded census cards. Later in life he also became interested in aeronautics, inventing several large kites capable of carrying the weight of a human and producing a hydrofoil craft in 1919 that managed to reach the speed of 70 mph.
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Aug 5, 2005 16:23:09 GMT 10
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AUGUST 3
King James II was killed during the siege of Roxburgh Castle. James was regarded as one of the better Scottish monarchs of the period, ending the feud between the Livingstons and Crichtons, and finally defeating the rebellious Douglases. He also established many trade links on the continent and through his wife, Mary of Gueldres, and the marriages of his sisters obtained many valuable political alliances. However, James took too close an interest in the new military invention, the cannon, and met his end, at the age of only thirty, when a Scottish cannon burst its casing killing the young king outright.
August 3, 1573 Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange executed, after defending Edinburgh Castle on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots from May 1568 to May 1573.
August 3, 1855 Inventor George Johnstone was born at West Linton near Edinburgh. A son of the manse, he trained as an engineer and, in 1894, became the first Scottish motorist driving an imported Daimler. By the following year he had invented his own car, 'the Ghost Tram.' In 1896, he became the first person in Britain to be convicted of a motoring offence when police in Glasgow stopped him in St. Enoch's Square and he failed to convince the court that his car did not constitute a locomotive, and he incurred a fine.
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Aug 5, 2005 16:24:28 GMT 10
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August 4
August 4, 1588 Archibald Douglas, the 8th Earl of Angus, the Scottish aristocrat and soldier died. Douglas became a formidable power in Scotland under the patronage of his uncle, the earl of Morton, the regent for young King James VI. However, after Morton's death his fall from grace was just as rapid. In 1581, the vengeful king charged him with treason and he was forced to flee to England. Douglas was a fierce Presbyterian and came to lead (with covert assistance from the English Queen Elizabeth) the other Protestant Scottish exiles in England. He was reconciled with the king in 1584 and returned home, but his strong religious views excluded him any position of power and influence under James.
August 4, 1792 Edward Irving, the noted cleric, was born. Irving was expelled from the Church of Scotland for preaching the sinful side of Christ's humanity, and His imminent Second Coming. He founded the 'Holy Catholic Apostolic Church', popularly known as the "Irvingites". His friends and supporters included Charles Lamb, Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
August 4, 1870 Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish music hall comedian, was born in Portobello. The biggest Scottish entertainer of his age, his most popular songs included "I Love a Lassie" and "Roamin' in the Gloamin'. Lauder was the first entertainer to perform for soldiers at the front line during the First World War and earned a knighthood in 1919 for this and for his work in recruiting Scots for the army, including paying for 100 pipers to march through Scotland as a recruitment drive. His signature tune was "Keep Right on to the End of the Road", supposedly written after he lost his only son during the Great War.
August 4 1900 -
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, born.
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Aug 5, 2005 16:38:44 GMT 10
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August 5 1305 William Wallace betrayed and captured by the English.
August 5 1695 - The Scottish Parliament established a General Post Office.
August 5 1704
On 5 August 1704, the Act of Security was passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Act of Security, which allowed the Three Estates to choose another successor to Queen Anne than the choice made by the English Parliament, if Scottish conditions were not met, was approved by the Scottish Parliament. The English responded with the Alien Act (1705) which demanded that if the Scots did not accept the Hanoverian succession, or begin proceedings on a union of parliaments, then Scottish imports to England would be banned and Scots living in England would be treated as aliens
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Aug 5, 2005 16:41:19 GMT 10
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AUGUST 6
August 6 1678 - First Glasgow/Edinburgh coach service began from White Horse Inn, Edinburgh.
On 6 August 1881 Sir Alexander Fleming, the Nobel prize-winning bacteriologist, was born. Born near Darvel in rural Ayrshire, Fleming became a lecturer at St Mary's Medical School in London. After seeing front line service in the Army Medical Corps throughout the Great War, he returned to St Mary's and began his research into anti-bacterial substances. In 1928, whilst carrying out work on the influenza virus, he noticed that mould had accidentally developed on a staphylococcus culture plate and that the mould had created a bacteria-free circle around itself. This discovery fired Fleming's work and he found that a mould culture prevented growth of staphylococci, even when diluted 800 times. He named the active substance penicillin.
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Aug 7, 2005 11:07:43 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Aug 7, 2005 11:07:43 GMT 10
Very interesting
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Aug 8, 2005 3:27:18 GMT 10
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August 7
August 7 Lord Kitchener, the war minister, began a mass recruiting campaign, three days after Britain declared war on Germany. Kitchener's appeal called for men aged between 19 and 30 to join the British Army. At first an average of 33,000 men were joining up each day but this was still not enough, and three weeks later Kitchener raised the recruiting age to 35. By the middle of September over 500,000 men had volunteered their services. By the end of 1915 some two million men had volunteered their services, including the entire Hearts first team squad who joined en masse leading supporters to the recruiting office. By the war's end a total of 147,609 Scots had been killed, a fifth of Britain's dead from a country that made up only 10% of its population.
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Aug 8, 2005 3:29:57 GMT 10
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August 8
August 8 1946 -
Former World flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch died.
August 8 1296 -
King Edward I removed to England the Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned.
August 8 1503 -
King James IV married Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England. The marriage was known as the Union of the Thistle and the Rose.
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Aug 11, 2005 19:23:55 GMT 10
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August 9
August 9, 1757 The famous engineer, Thomas Telford, was born in rural Dumfriesshire. Telford went on to build many important works of engineering across Britain including the Menai Suspension Bridge and the Caledonian Canal. He was also responsible for the building of much of the road network in the Highlands, earning himself the nickname "The Colossus of Roads."
August 9, 1913 Professor James Gordon, the Scottish industrial chemist and engineer, was born. Gordon was a pioneer of materials science, which sought to explain the gap between chemistry and structural mechanics. In 1968, he published his findings in the ground-breaking 'The New Science of Strong Materials'.
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Aug 11, 2005 19:25:11 GMT 10
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July 10
August 10, 1460 King James III crowned at Kelso Abbey.
August 10 1624 Death of Esther Inglis, calligrapher and minituarist.
August 10, 1872 Education (Scotland) Act passed, providing elementary education for all children.
July 10, 1784 Artist, Allan Ramsay Jr. died. Son of the poet Allan Ramsay Sr., he was a leading portrait painter of his day. Some of his subjects included King George III, historian Edward Gibbon, philosopher David Hume and Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald. However not all those who sat for him were overjoyed with the results as French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau was reputed to be unimpressed by his portrait, although it did not prevent the two men from becoming friends.
July 10, 1937 John Hodge, the Scottish Labour politician, died. Hodge became the first Labour minister serving as Minister of Labour in the second coalition government during the First World War. Hodge faced criticism from the left wing of the Labour Party for supporting the war, and for his harsh policies when dealing with striking workers during the war years.
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