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Mar 14, 2006 3:42:36 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 14, 2006 3:42:36 GMT 10
March 13
John Barbour, the early Scottish poet, died on this day in 1395.One of the first poets to use the vernacular in Scots poetry, he was also a pioneering historian. His epic masterwork is 'The Bruce', one of the great national poems of Scotland. Barbour served as Archdeacon of Aberdeen, and 'The Bruce' is highly commended for it's historical accuracy when compared to other similar works such as Blind Harry's 'Wallace'. On 13 March 1873, the Scottish Football Association was formed. The impetus for forming the organisation came from a meeting after the first international match against England. Attending the meeting were representatives from all of Scotland's leading clubs: Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Third Lanark Rifle Volunteer Reserves, Eastern, Granville and Rovers. The meeting was chaired by Queen's Park.
March 13/15 1941 Blitz of Clydebank by German Luftwaffe.
March 13 1947 The classic Lerner and Loewe, Broadway musical "Brigadoon" opened at the Ziegfeld in New York.
March 13 1996 Sixteen primary school children and their teacher murdered in Dunblane.
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MARCH
Mar 14, 2006 22:35:36 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 14, 2006 22:35:36 GMT 10
March 14
Today in 1900 saw the birth of Scottish lawyer, Dame Margaret Kidd. Not only was Kidd Scotland's first woman advocate, but she was also the first woman King's Counsel in Britain and the first woman to plead before the House of Lords. She was appointed Britain's first woman KC on 20 December 1948.
On 14 March 1952, the first TV programme to be broadcast in Scotland showed the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society performing the Duke of Edinburgh Reel. The broadcast was celebrating the opening of Kirk o' Shotts station in Lanarkshire and came from Studio 1 in Edinburgh's Broadcasting House. The announcers for the evening were Mary Malcolm and Alastair MacIntyre.
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MARCH
Mar 16, 2006 4:53:08 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 16, 2006 4:53:08 GMT 10
March 15
March 15 1689 Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh founded Advocates' Library "equipped with works written by lawyers".
March 15 1886 Low-level platforms at Glasgow's Queen Street Station opened.
March 15 1921 First women jurors in Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The morning of March 15 1941 saw the end of two nights of heavy German bombing of Clydebank. The Clydebank Blitz, as it became known, destroyed a third of the buildings of Clydebank, leaving 35,000 people homeless. A thousand German bombers were used in the raid and the devastation of the town was so complete that only eight buildings remained entirely unscathed after the bombing. To further compound Clydebank's misery, only two enemy planes were shot down.
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MARCH
Mar 16, 2006 14:37:09 GMT 10
Post by Elly on Mar 16, 2006 14:37:09 GMT 10
Thanks Llady for all the info.
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Mar 17, 2006 4:33:21 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 17, 2006 4:33:21 GMT 10
Thank you elly!
March 16
March 16 1309 King Robert the Bruce convened his first parliament, at St Andrews.
On 16 March 1914, Sir John Murray, the noted Scottish oceanographer, died. Murray pioneered the science of oceanography. He was one of the naturalists on the 'HMS Challenger' expedition of 1872-76, and edited the expedition's reports. He invented a device for sounding and registering the sea's temperature at great depths, and also completed the first biological survey of the lochs of Scotland.
March 16 1935 John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist and winner of Nobel Prize (in 1923) died.
March 16 1940 The first British civilian victim of the Second World war was killed in the Orkney village of Bridge of Waithe when a Luftwaffe bomber targeting a naval air station near Kirkwall missed the correct target.
On 16 March 1995, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, the Chief of Clan Fraser, died. Fraser, a WWII hero, played a key role in the development of the commandos and was actively involved in both the Dieppe Raid, 1942, and D-Day landings, 1944.
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MARCH
Mar 18, 2006 4:17:01 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 18, 2006 4:17:01 GMT 10
March 17
March 17 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh between King Robert I and Edward III which recognised Scotland's independence, ending the 30 years of Wars of Independence.
March 17 1473 King James IV born.
March 17, 1715 saw the death of Gilbert Burnet, the Scottish cleric, theologian and historian. A close confidant of Queen Mary II, he played an important part in the 'Glorious Revolution'of 1688 by persuading the Queen to surrender all political powers into the hands of her Dutch husband, King William III. He was also author of 'History of His Own Time' which has been described as the "only history of England and Wales under the later Stuarts to have been written by anybody so highly placed both to observe and influence the events he narrated".
March 17 1746 Lord George Murray and Cluny Macpherson (chief of the clan) fell upon the Campbell militia posts in the Braes of Atholl, at the head of Strathtay, and wiped them out. A brilliant feat of arms, it aroused a blaze of Jacobite optimism.
March 17 1780 saw the birth of Rev Thomas Chalmers in Anstruther. Chalmers was the leader of the dissenting ministers in the Great Disruption of 1843. In all, 470 ministers walked out of the General Assembly over the matter of who had the right to pick a minister for a parish. Chalmers then became the first Moderator of the new Free Church of Scotland, expending much energy on ensuring the new church had a solid base on which to build.
March 17 1951 The cartoon character "Dennis the Menace" appeared for the first time in the "Beano" comic.
March 17 1969 Longhope lifeboat sank in the Pentland Firth with the loss of eight men on board, all from the small island of Hoy.
March 17 1984 Scotland won Rugby "Grand Slam" at Murrayfield - the first time in 59 years.
March 17 1990 Scotland beat England 13-7 at Murrayfield to win the rugby "Grand Slam".
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MARCH
Mar 18, 2006 4:20:02 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 18, 2006 4:20:02 GMT 10
March 18
On 18 March 1286, Alexander III, King of Scots, set off on the journey that led to him being killed accidentally at Kinghorn, Fife. The last of the MacAlpine dynasty and the Celtic line of Scottish Kings, his reign was known as "The Golden Age". His successor, Margaret, known as the 'Maid of Norway', died on her way home from Norway to claim the throne. Margaret's premature death precipitated the disastrous involvement of Edward I of England in Scotland's affairs. Today in 1689, the King's Own Scottish Borderers were raised in Edinburgh by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven. The regiment was popular from the start and it was reported that 800 men were recruited within the space of 2 hours. The regiment first saw action at the Battle of Killiecrankie on July 27th of that year and, although the Jacobite rebels forced the Government army to retreat, Leven’s new Regiment acquitted itself well, and was granted the privilege of recruiting by beat of drum within the City of Edinburgh without the prior permission of the Lord Provost. March 18 1857 William Henry Playfair, architect, died.
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Mar 18, 2006 4:24:21 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 18, 2006 4:24:21 GMT 10
March 19
March 19 1286 King Alexander III died after crossing the river Forth to Fife at Queensferry.
March 19 1641 Foundation stone of Hutchesons' Grammar School laid by Thomas Hutcheson as a residential school for the poor in Glasgow.
19 March 1721 saw the birth of Tobias Smollett, the novelist and playwright. Smollett is most famous for his picaresque works such as 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' and 'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'. He was also a noted satirist and as famous for his tendency to fall out with collaborators as for his written work.
On this day in 1813, Dr.David Livingstone, the famous Scottish missionary and explorer, was born. Livingstone, from Blantyre, became well-known for his exploration of central and southern Africa. He was the first European to see the Victoria Falls in present-day Zimbabwe. The whereabouts of Livingstone became the subject of the famous search by American journalist Henry Morton Stanley.
March 19 1938 Rugby first appeared on British television - England v Scotland at Twickenham in London
March 19 1955 Billy Graham began All-Scotland Crusade.
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Mar 21, 2006 0:58:11 GMT 10
Post by dreamy on Mar 21, 2006 0:58:11 GMT 10
You're doing a great job here, LLady! I love reading this thread; unfortunately I keep forgetting to post how much I enjoy it! #embarrassed# So thank you for all the work you're putting in, LLady. #wave#
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Mar 21, 2006 7:56:29 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 21, 2006 7:56:29 GMT 10
Thank you dreamy! I'm happy that you're enjoying it.
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Mar 21, 2006 7:59:46 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 21, 2006 7:59:46 GMT 10
March 20
March 20 1141 King Malcolm IV born.
March 20 1729 John Law, financier and founder of New Orleans, died aged about 57.
March 20 1780 The firm of James Watt and Co was established to manufacture the world's first duplicating machines.
March 20 1814 Birth of Dr John Goodsir in Anstruther, Fife, who showed in 1842 that bacteria was the cause of disease and that it could be eliminated with selective poisons - 18 years before Louis Pasteur, who is usually credited with the discovery.
20 March 1934 saw the birth of Mario Conti, the Scottish Roman Catholic cleric. Conti rose to become Bishop of Aberdeen in 1977. After the death of Cardinal Winning, he was installed as the Archbishop of Glasgow, becoming the religious leader of Scotland's Catholic community. On 20 March 1936, Robert Cunninghame-Graham, the Scottish nationalist politician and author, died. The first President of the National Party of Scotland, and first Chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party. George Bernard Shaw reputedly used Graham as a model for characters in his plays, 'Arms and the Man' and 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'. Graham was also a noted traveller, particularly of Central and South America, and wrote extensively of his travels there.
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MARCH
Mar 21, 2006 8:03:21 GMT 10
Post by LLady on Mar 21, 2006 8:03:21 GMT 10
March 21
On this day in 1729, John Law, the Scottish economist, died. In his best known work, 'Money and Trade Considered with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation With Money', he argued that increased money supply resulted in an expanding, healthy economy. Rejected in Britain, he moved to France where the government, deep in debt, adopted his plans to develop its vast territories in North America with disastrous results. The resulting financial disaster became known as the "Mississippi bubble" and had such an enormous impact on France that it would be 80 years before France would again introduce paper money into its economy.
March 21 1859 National Gallery of Scotland opened in Edinburgh.
On 21 March 1925, Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh opened, becoming the home of Scottish rugby. Scotland marked the occasion by beating England 14-11 and winning their first Grand Slam. Unfortunately, the Scottish rugby team have only managed to repeat this success twice more, in 1984 and 1990.
March 21 1993 Pope John Paul sanctifies John Duns Scotus, philosopher, theologian (but the first "dunce").
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