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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 0:59:39 GMT 10
MARCH 25
March 25 1306 King Robert I ("The Bruce") crowned at Scone.
March 25 1437 Coronation of King James II.
March 25 1810 The Commercial Bank of Scotland was founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others.
March 25 1876 First Scotland v Wales football international. Scotland won 4-0.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 1:00:10 GMT 10
MARCH 26
March 26 1934 Car driving tests introduced for the first time.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 1:01:01 GMT 10
MARCH 27
March 27 1371 King Robert II crowned at Scone.
March 27 1625 King James VI died at Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire and buried at Westminster Abbey. Succeeded by his son, King Charles I.
March 27 1871 First Scotland/England rugby international, 20 a side, played at Raeburn Place. (Scotland won).
March 27 1943 Aircraft carrier HMS Dasher blew up and sank off the island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of 350 crew; there were 149 survivors.
March 27 1971 David Coulthard, Grand Prix racing driver born in Twynholm, Dumfries and Galloway.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 1:01:48 GMT 10
MARCH 28
March 28 1318 King Robert the Bruce captured Berwick on Tweed.
March 28 1642 The Scots Guards Regiment was formed when King Charles I issued a commission to the Marquess of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell, authorizing him to raise in Scotland a regiment of 1,500 men. The King’s 'Lyfe Guard of Foot' became the Scots Guards.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 1:02:34 GMT 10
MARCH 29
March 29 1783 The Royal Society of Edinburgh incorporated by charter.
March 29 1915 Jazz trombonist George Chisholm born into a musical family in Glasgow.
March 29 1960 Cheapside docks fire, Glasgow, 19 firemen killed.
March 29 2002 Longannet, the last deep coal mine in Scotland, closed, after being flooded a five-mile long mineshafts. An estimated 40 million tons of coal still remained to be extracted, but access would have been too expensive.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 1:03:33 GMT 10
MARCH 30 March 30 1296 Destruction of Berwick by King Edward I of England, slaughtering many of the population of 15,000. In the previous year Scotland had signed an alliance with France which promised mutual help against the English. On this day in 1296, Edward I of England sacked the Scottish town of Berwick. The English army destroyed the town and decimated the population of around 15,000. This act was retaliation for the widespread carnage perpetrated in the north of England, and what Edward considered to be the treacherous stab in the back of the Scottish-French alliance. Berwick was rebuilt by Northumbrians, and the Scottish-English border forever after remained north of this town.
March 30 1406 King James I captured by English near Flamborough Head on his way to France.
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Post by LLady on Mar 3, 2008 1:04:33 GMT 10
MARCH 31
March 31 1652 Scottish Regalia (crown, sceptre and sword) saved from invading army of Oliver Cromwell by James Granger, minister at Kinneff, Aberdeenshire, after they had been smuggled from Dunnottar Castle which was under siege.
March 31 1938 David Steel, (Lord Steel of Aikwood), politician and former leader of the Liberal party, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
March 31 1950 The actor Robbie Coltrane was born (as Anthony Robert McMillan) in Rutherglen.
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