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Aug 21, 2005 6:15:46 GMT 10
Post by dreamy on Aug 21, 2005 6:15:46 GMT 10
"In 1272 Coronation of King Edward I of England took place. He became known as 'The Hammer of the Scots' following his invasion of Scotland in 1296. He died in 1307 en route to Scotland to face challenge from Robert I, King of Scots. "
A dark day for history....
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Aug 22, 2005 18:49:57 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 22, 2005 18:49:57 GMT 10
"In 1272 Coronation of King Edward I of England took place. He became known as 'The Hammer of the Scots' following his invasion of Scotland in 1296. He died in 1307 en route to Scotland to face challenge from Robert I, King of Scots. " A dark day for history.... Yes was a dark day for Scotland and Wales, we could have done without him fine
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Aug 22, 2005 18:52:56 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 22, 2005 18:52:56 GMT 10
August 20
August 20, 1682 John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, died. King Charles II's deputy in Scotland, he was notorious for his repressive rule. Originally a signatory of the National Covenant, Lauderdale became a Royalist during the Civil War and became the most powerful figure in Scotland after the Restoration. In the early years of his administration he was conciliatory towards the Presbyterians, but as time went on his attitude hardened. A combination of his unsuccessful attempts to suppress religious unrest and the corruption of his regime forced the king to remove him after the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, and Maitland retired to England where he lived out the remainder of his life.
August 20, 1872 Poet William Miller died. Known as 'the laureate of the nursery' Miller wrote mainly children's verse. He is best remembered for the classic, "Wee Willie Winkie". Miller never managed to make a career solely as a poet and worked as a cabinet-maker and wood turner for most of his life, dying penniless in Glasgow's East End. However, his memory lingered and public subscription paid for a monument to him in Glasgow's Necropolis.
August 20, 1897 Ronald Ross, the first Scot to win a Nobel prize (in 1902) dissected a mosquito and established the link with malaria.
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Aug 22, 2005 18:54:56 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 22, 2005 18:54:56 GMT 10
August 21
August 21 1689 - Battle of Dunkeld when the newly formed Cameronians defended the town against 3,000 Highlanders.
August 21 1754 - Birth of William Murdoch who pioneered the use of coal-gas lighting in 1792 in partnership with James Watt and Mathew Boulton.
August 21 1937 - Birth of Donald Dewar, former Secretary of State for Scotland and the first First Minister in the new Scottish Parliament.
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Aug 22, 2005 18:56:33 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 22, 2005 18:56:33 GMT 10
August 22 1138 - Battle of the Standard at Northallerton in which King David I was defeated by the English.
August 22 1282 - Devorgilla, Countess of Galloway founded Balliol College, Oxford. She was mother of John Balliol (who acceded to the Scottish throne in 1292).
August 22 1582 - James VI abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie - the so-called "Ruthven Raid". August 22 1642 - King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham, initiating a Civil War in England between the Royalists (also known as Cavaliers) and Parliament (Roundheads).
August 22 1960 - "Beyond the Fringe", an influential satirical revue, opened in Edinburgh.
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Aug 22, 2005 18:57:40 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 22, 2005 18:57:40 GMT 10
August 23 1305 - William Wallace executed.
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Aug 28, 2005 3:41:07 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 28, 2005 3:41:07 GMT 10
August 24 1482 -
Berwick on Tweed finally ceded to England (Edward IV) after changing hands 12 times.
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Aug 28, 2005 23:21:06 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 28, 2005 23:21:06 GMT 10
August 25
August 25, 1330 Sir James Douglas, known as "The Black Douglas", died. The champion of King Robert I, "the Bruce", Douglas died in Spain fighting the Moors, whilst on a pilgrimage carrying the dead king's heart to the Holy Land. This final act of loyalty to Bruce led to the appearance of a heart in the Douglas coat of arms.
August 25, 1776 David Hume, the Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and author, died. Hume is regarded as one of the most influential figures in British philosophy of the Eighteenth Century, and the leading light of the Scottish Enlightenment. He was the author of such works as 'A Treatise of Human Nature' and 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. However, his atheistic and sceptical stance meant that he faced opposition when proposed to the Chair of Ethics and Pneumatical Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Hume was forced to stand down and was never to hold an academic post in his life.
August 25, 1923 Scottish novelist Dorothy Dunnett, was born. As the writer of intricate and meticulously researched historical novels she attracted a devoted following with her multi-volume sagas. Her novels included the million-word 'Lymond Chronicles', in six volumes, which covered 15-years in the life of a 16th Century Scottish aristocrat, Francis Crawford of Lymond. The first book, 'The Game of Kings', was published in 1960; the last, 'Checkmate', came 15 years later. Between her two epic series, Dunnett wrote 'King Hereafter', the single-volume novel that some considered her finest work. Disentangling the historical Scottish king Macbeth from Shakespeare's play, the work was the product of years of research.
August 25, 1819 James Watt, developer of steam power, died.
August 25, 1819 Birth in Glasgow of Alan Pinkerton, founder of the Chicago-based detective agency which bears his name.
August 25, 1930 Sean Connery, was born in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh. Connery achieved international success appearing in films as Ian Fleming's suave secret agent, James Bond. Connery has also become well known in his homeland as a prominent supporter of Scottish Independence and the Scottish National Party.
August 25, 1931 Ramsay MacDonald formed a National Government.
August 25, 1942 Prince George, the Duke of Kent, brother of King George VI, killed when his flying boat crashed into Eagle's Rock in Caithness, apparently en route to Iceland.
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Aug 28, 2005 23:21:44 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 28, 2005 23:21:44 GMT 10
August 26
August 26, 1745 Henry Mackenzie, the Scottish novelist and playright, was born. Mackenzie was known by the epithet 'The Man of Feeling' after the title of his first novel, published anonymously in 1771. Although many of his novels achieved great sucess he was less well renowned for his theatrical works with his "The Prince of Tunis" being his only work of note.
August 26, 1875 Novelist and statesman John Buchan born in Perth.
August 26, 1901 The Donibristle Mining Disaster occurred in the Fife coalfield. The disaster occurred when part of Mossmorran peat bog near Cowdenbeath collapsed on sixteen miners 360 feet underground. Four miners were lost, as was a four-strong rescue party. All the bodies were eventually recovered but some remained underground until the December of that year.
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Aug 28, 2005 23:22:30 GMT 10
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August 27
August 27, 1748 James Thomson, the Scottish poet, died. Thomson's most famous works include the anthem, "Rule Britannia", written as part of the masque, "Alfred", composed by Thomas Arne, and 'The Seasons', the first British anthology on nature. Thomson has been cited as an influence on the Romantic poets who followed him, through his interest in the elements, Classical themes and his notions of mankind's place within the natural world.
August 27, 1784 First balloon ascent in Britain by James Tytler, Edinburgh.
August 27, 1825 African explorer William Blake born.
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Aug 28, 2005 23:25:36 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 28, 2005 23:25:36 GMT 10
August 28, 1296 King Edward I sought to cement his control over Scotland today in 1296 by making all prominent Scots sign what has come to be known as the 'Ragman's Roll'. Of course, many of the Scots who signed (including Robert the Bruce) soon revolted and the War of Independence finally freed the country from English rule. Today, the importance of the Ragman's Roll is that it offers a snapshot of Scottish medieval society of great use to genealogists and historians.
August 28, 1640 The 28 August 1640 saw the Battle of Newburn on Tyne. The battle was fought between Leslie's veteran Scottish army and a hastily assembled English force. The Scots had invaded northern England in response to the attempts of Charles I to impose an Anglican prayer book upon Scotland. The Scots bypassed the garrisoned towns of Newcastle and Berwick, instead intending to cross the Tyne at Newburn. The English chose not to defend from high ground and were decimated by Scottish gunfire until they fled the battlefield, leaving the Scots free to advance as far south as York.
August 28, 1902 George Douglas, the Scottish novelist, died. Douglas wrote mostly under the penname of George Dougles Brown. His most successful work was 'The House with the Green Shutters' a tale of the pettiness of rural life in Victorian Scotland. Douglas is noted for his move away from the Kailyard style which was dominant in the Scottish literary scene at that time.
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Aug 30, 2005 10:00:13 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Aug 30, 2005 10:00:13 GMT 10
29 august
On this day in 1930 the population of St Kilda were evacuated from the island. The island was evacuated on economic grounds at the islanders own request as the population had dwindled from 73 in 1920 to only 37 in 1928. The island had been populated since Bronze Age times, but from the latter part of the 19th Century, the islanders had began to lose their means of self-sufficiency and the fate of the resident population was sealed. The island was sold to the Marquess of Bute, a keen ornithologist, who bequeathed it to the National Trust for Scotland in 1957.
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