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The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland unite. 1934: Scottish National Party founded. 1938: The Empire Exhibition, Scotland is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. 1941: The Clydebank Blitz (13–15 March). 1943: Creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to bring electricity to all parts of the Highlands and ...
The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia, inhabited by the Picti, whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall. As Rome finally withdrew from Britain, a Gaelic tribe from ...
His troops continued to garrison Scotland for the rest of the Interregnum. Sporadic Royalist rebellions continued throughout the Commonwealth period in Scotland, particularly in the western Highlands, where Alasdair MacColla had raised his forces in the 1640s. The northwest Highlands was the scene of another pro-Royalist uprising in 1653–55 ...
Timeline of prehistoric Scotland. Categories: Scottish history-related lists. British history timelines. Years in Scotland.
Kingdom of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain ...
1455–1458: Greyfriars (Franciscan) friary is founded. 1457: The 20in (508mm) siege gun "Mons Meg" is received at the castle; Deacon of goldsmiths begins assaying and marking of works. 1458: Edinburgh has one of three supreme courts in the country. 1460: Trinity College Kirk and Hospital founded by Mary of Guelders.
t. e. The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and 14th centuries. The First War (1296–1328) began with the English invasion of Scotland in 1296 and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton in 1328.
Outline of Scotland. Scotland is a country which is part of the United Kingdom, having previously been an independent, sovereign country prior to the 1707 union with England. [1][2][3] Established in 843, this would make Scotland the second oldest country in Europe and the fifth oldest country in the world. [4]