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10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire. [1] 10 November – Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives. [2]
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 ...
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Jan 26, 2021 · Scotland’s long radical history begins with a deadly industrial dispute which saw cotton weavers of the Calton number among the country’s first working-class martyrs. In the summer of 1787,...
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17 May 1810: The suicide in a Paisley canal of Robert Tannahill, the self-taught poet and musician widely known as the Weaver Poet. 9 January 1811: The first women's golf tournament anywhere in the world is held at Musselburgh.
The Edinburgh Enlightenment of the 18th Century The Failure of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion put new strains on the union between Scotland and England - but it also led indirectly to the one of the greatest ever flowerings of Scottish pa...
Mar 22, 2024 · Category: History & Society. Date: c. 1750 - c. 1850. Location: Scottish Highlands. Scotland. Context: Battle of Culloden. On the Web: Internet Archive - "The history of the Highland clearances" (Mar. 22, 2024)
