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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:38:59 GMT 10
March 1 1546 George Wishart, a Protestant martyr, was burned at the stake in St Andrews.
March 1 1682 The Advocate's Library (known as the National Library of Scotland since 1925) opened by its founder, Sir George Mackenzie, the Lord Advocate.
March 1 1979 Scots voted in favour of Devolution, but failed to reach the required 40% of the population in favour of implementing it - due to 36% of the electorate not voting.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:40:05 GMT 10
MARCH 2
March 2 1316 King Robert II born in Paisley.
March 2 1838 Clydesdale Bank founded in Glasgow.
March 2 1990 The Queen officially inaugurated Glasgow's year as Cultural Capital of Europe.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:41:00 GMT 10
MARCH 3
March 3 1792 Robert Adam, architect, died.
March 3 1847 Alexander Graham Bell born Edinburgh.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:41:45 GMT 10
MARCH 4
March 4 1756 Sir Henry Raeburn, reknowned for painting the portraits of many of the citizens of Edinburgh, born.
March 4 1890 Forth Rail Bridge opened by Prince of Wales.
March 4 1936 Jim Clark, Formula I World motor racing champion, born Fife.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:42:31 GMT 10
MARCH 5
March 5 1323 King David II born.
March 5 1787 Deacon William Brodie executed for theft - on a grand scale.
March 5 1790 Flora Macdonald, who helped to save Prince Charles Edward Stewart during his flight after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden, died in Kingsburgh, Skye (in the same bed in which Bonnie Prince Charlie had slept during his escape).
March 5 1929 David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Manufacturing Company which later became General Motors, died in Detroit. He was born in Arbroath in 1854.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:43:47 GMT 10
MARCH 6
March 6 608 Death of St Balfred, the hermit monk of the Bass Rock, off North Berwick. The island is now a bird sanctuary.
March 6 1457 King James II decreed in an Act of Parliament that there should be regular target practice and military parades and that "football and golf be utterly cried down and not used". This was the first time that the games had been mentioned in Scottish documents.
March 6 1923 BBC Scotland began broadcasting (from Glasgow). Lord Reith of Stonehaven, the founder of the BBC opened the station.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:44:31 GMT 10
MARCH 7
March 7 1744 The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded. The oldest golf club in the world, it produced thirteen "Rules of Golf" for its first competition which was played for the "Silver Club". (The first winner of the trophy only just escaped beheading for becoming Bonnie Prince Charlie's personal surgeon during the Jacobite Uprising the following year. The club played on the 5 holes at Leith Links for nearly a century.
March 7 1924 Sculptor and artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi born in Leith, the eldest son of Italian immigrants.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:45:21 GMT 10
MARCH 8
March 8 1702 King William III died and Queen Anne acceded to the throne at the age of 37. She was the daughter of King James VII.
March 8 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of "The Wind in the Willows" born in Edinburgh.
March 8 1899 Novelist Eric Linklater, son of an Orkney master mariner, born in Wales.
March 8 1936 The "Oor Wullie" cartoon strip first appeared in the "Sunday Post".
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:46:14 GMT 10
MARCH 9
March 9 1566 David Rizzio murdered by Ruthven in the Palace of Holyrood.
March 9 1649 Execution of James Hamilton, the 1st duke of Hamilton after capture at the Battle of Preston and subsequently trying to escape. His leadership of the Royalist cause in Scotland was poor and did not greatly help King Charles I.
March 9 1770 Haggis was served on board Captain James Cook's ship "Endeavour", anchored off New Zealand, in celebration of the birthday of a Scottish officer who was on board. (Captain Cook was born in Yorkshire of Scottish parents).
March 9 1776 "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith published
March 9 1895 Soprano Dame Isabella Baillie, opera star, born in Hawick.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:47:05 GMT 10
MARCH 10
March 10 St Kessoc Day. St Kessoc was the patron saint of Scotland prior to the adoption of St Andrew
March 10 1615 St John Ogilvie, a Banffshire-born Jesuit priest, was hanged for refusing to renounce the supremacy of the Pope. He was the only Roman Catholic martyr in Scotland and was canonised in 1976.
March 10 1748 John Playfair, clergyman, geologist, mathematician, born in Edinburgh.
March 10 1916 Birth of James Herriot, author of "All Creatures Great and Small"
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:47:50 GMT 10
MARCH 11 March 11 1820 Death of Sir Alexander Mackenzie (of Dunkeld), explorer of North America and in 1793 became the first white person north of Mexico to reach the Pacific by crossing overland.
March 11 1955 Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, died.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:48:42 GMT 10
MARCH 12
March 12 1852 Last salmon was caught in the River Kelvin due to the rise of industrial pollution in the area. After a major investment, salmon returned to spawn in the river in 1999.
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