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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:49:40 GMT 10
MARCH 13
March 13 1395 Death of poet and historian John Barbour, author of "The Bruce" recounting the history of King Robert I.
March 13 1873 Scottish Football Association founded. The initial clubs were Queen's Park, Clydesdale, Vale of Leven, Dumbreck, Third Lanark, Eastern, Granville and Kilmarnock.
March 13 1973 Scotland played Brazil to mark centenary of Scottish Football Association.
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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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:50:14 GMT 10
MARCH 14
March 14 1952 First television programmes broadcast in Scotland.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:50:54 GMT 10
MARCH 15
March 15 1921 First women jurors in Glasgow Sheriff Court.
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.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:51:37 GMT 10
MARCH 16
March 16 1309 King Robert the Bruce convened his first parliament, at St Andrews.
March 16 1914 Death of Sir John Murray, pioneer of oceanography and inventor of a device for recording the ocean's temperature at great depths.
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.
March 16 1995 Death of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, chief of the Fraser clan. He developed the Commando force in the British army and was active in the Dieppe Raid (1942) and the D-Day landings (1944).
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:52:30 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 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 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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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:53:33 GMT 10
MARCH 18 March 18 1689 Earl of Leven raises a Border regiment to hold Edinburgh against the Jacobites. It later becomes the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
March 18 1857 William Henry Playfair, architect, died.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:54:20 GMT 10
MARCH 19
March 19 1286 King Alexander III died after crossing the river Forth to Fife at Queensferry.
March 19 1286 Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (daughter of King Erik II and grand-daughter of Alexander III) inherits the throne.
March 19 1641 Foundation stone of Hutchesons' Grammar School laid by Thomas Hutcheson as a residential school for the poor in Glasgow.
March 19 1721 Novelist Tobias Smollett born. Books included "The Adventures of Roderick Random" and "The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker".
March 19 1813 David Livingstone, missionary and explorer, born Blantyre.
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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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:55:08 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.
March 20 1936 Death of nationaliust politician, traveller and writer Robert Cunninghame-Graham. He was the first President of the National Party of Scotland and first Chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party. He was reputedly the model for characters in plays by George Bernard Shaw.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:56:03 GMT 10
MARCH 21
March 21 1859 National Gallery of Scotland opened in Edinburgh.
21 March 1925 Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium (the home of Scottish rugby) opened. In the first match, Scotland defeated England 14-11 and won their first Grand Slam - repeat again only in 1984 and 1990.
March 21 1993 Pope John Paul sanctifies John Duns Scotus, philosopher, theologian (but the first "dunce").
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:57:05 GMT 10
MARCH 22
March 22 1421 Scottish and French troops under the command of the Earl of Buchan defeated English forces at Baugé in Anjou, France.
March 22 1727 Neil Gow, first of a famous family of Fiddle players and composers, born at Inver, near Dunkeld, Perthshire.
March 22 1868 Last fully public hanging in Scotland - that of Joseph Bell at Perth.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:57:49 GMT 10
MARCH 23
March 23 1848 First Scottish settlers arrive Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:58:49 GMT 10
MARCH 24
March 24 1603 Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland on the death of Queen Elizabeth I and the succession of King James VI of Scotland.
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